The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-23
THE ACTOR WAS CASHED IN:
TEMPERANCE WORN or A PU0ILIST
~ CHICAGO.
Troubles. OF a Manager over u LeadinE
Man who Was Sober when Not Employed
Uses Of q little Brother-An Attempt TO
E,cane Fruatrnted by the Littlc BrOtheT.

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Uses Of q little Brother-An Attempt TO
Escape Frustrated by the Little Brother.
The leading man Of the show" said the
reminiscent theatrical manager" was a tanklcts
proper once he got a-Roing. He wasn't a con-
tinuous performance boozerino. I'd rather
he had been. for he'd have been better able
10 tote his package around. IT he'd been one
Of those hams who just keep a benign still on
all the time. always standing NJ to their
work. and never making cancellations ncccs-
sary, It would have been all right, But he
wasn't that sort. lie was what the gold-cure
bunch call a periodical. He'd shin aboard
tho Ice wagon and perch on 1t for months at
a stretch, generally when he wasn't working.
and the way he'd round on n chap who'd ask
him to have a ball during those hiatuses OF
sobrIetv was sure "A sin and n shame. and IKE
wise scandalous. Then he'd fall down like a
sack o. cement, generally when he was working.
and the messes Of carmine paint that he'd strew
around then. and the quick stunts that man
ayers nd have to work In order to get him to
the post while he thus toyed with his frame.
were weird Just weird. He was In n class
all by himself when he got good and soused.
and the pale pink tremors that he give his man
ayers before I got him are n part Of the history
Of the game.
He was-and is-a top-notch actor man.
and | needed him. He was Just built for the
part. I had to have him, / knew all about
his Intermittent devotion to the fagon, but
he was the individual I required. and 30 1 took
a chance with him. When I hired him AZ the
biggest wages that he'd ever signed for | said
TO him:
My boy, I didn't put anything in the bond
about the Demon Rum, but that isn't saying
that I amt next TO YOU and your record with
a pair Of tho strongest lamps this side Of Argus
vile. I'm real nice people myself. and I'm
not narrow. There's nobody likes TO sit around
a table and make rings thereon with the bottom
Of a glass more than I do. But | know how
10 co IL and 10 get away with II. You don't.
Consequently. yours is vichy and milk for the
whole fOrty-two weeks that you've signed
for, aud | have spoke, You're n bright and
beautiful ace with me Just a. long a. you keep
yourself nailei to the top Of the pole. But the
minute you slice down you're a mouldy two
spot in a wOrkhou,e deck. which means that
you won't be popular with me at all. This.
my boy, is not merely sociable conversation
which am emitting. II j. straight goocS.
with the requisite number Of revenue stamps
pasted thereon. So iu~t remember this little
to all whom it may concern. will YOU?
He looked real gricved. 50 he did. lie cN-
tended the wistful eye unto me. He HANGED
me the -EtheldreCa look, Then
he began to tell me how inenably | satcened
and hurt him by even dreaming that he would,
&C., &c.
" 'Thatsal | right. son, saidI just eliminate
the ca lortc air and be good, and you'll bring
down the house with me, that's all. Promise
are Patagonian paper currency Performance
Is the pay rock that assays big to the ton on
my tablets
Well. out We went. We got the money
from the minute the barrier went up. The
behavior Of my leading man during the hrNt
four weeks was jus I ar~mor-plated and copper-
sheathed. He was the whole Epworth League.
While We were doing the week-stande al Phila-
delphia. Washington and Baltimore he was
the entire plant and the ground-lease. and in
those town | used to catch myself c~lutching
my spitlock and wondering whether that lead
ing man Of mine hadn't been slandered up
and defamed a heap by his former managers.
lie went to bed az his hotel right after the show
every night, He gazed with a mourniul eye
upon the other persons OF the outiit who re-
paired to a maltous emporium and e~noircied
d few beers before turning in. He spent his
afternoons poking around the libraries and
writing love letters to his wife in New YORK;
oh, he was just the rules and regulations, all
right, and il got SO that Id look at him In "A
shame-faCed way when he wasn't rlbberllg
and feel sorry that I'd hurt his feelings when
he'd signed his contract,
From Baltimore We umped to Chicago.
where We opend to capacity and hung out the
5. T. o. sign on the next night. The continued
me so that on the third day OF the Chicago en-
gagement ! went aud bought him 2 box of
.ice 1eckTeaTi ana ii marked Ike snro 1ne 39H s, P2p
when ! handed the box to him, a. much As to
ask me how | ever aggregated the idea that
he could he anything else but good.
Well. he began TO nibble at the old stun
right after the saturday matinee, and then
5k1sT that ! ! va up to az me mn To get cd a ca u on , ssd
he didn't get through his work in good shape
at the saturday night performance. but he
was real skittish, and he had one 81 those fat
TASKS behind the looking glass in his dressing
room, and | h new that he was Just on the outer
edge Of one swift vortex OF IsdRe area. lie
the Saturday night show, for ] caught him
shooting looks at me out ot. the tail Of his eye.
and never let on, and he thought he had me
fim-fammed and all tucked away.
AZ soon as the curtain went up on the first
manager Of pugilistic, affair; in Chicago, and
in my business. iouseman got into The jim
riksha with me, and We we're kited over to a
b1rrel;hou on The west side where We found
haped like a gorilla, and there was nothing
whatever 70 his countenance except lower jaw.
| his finger in the direction ~ the pug, and then
Lou went on downtown about his, business.
Having made ny Y nPRe en a" e, Ti r. H Ibn
Georeie, aid ] TO the pug. not exactly
remembering his name. If your date books
not filed up for the next week or so you belong
10 me for good dough, hut part Of its going Ia
be conditional The top ham al my show
is this very night embarking upon one Seething,
swlrling drunk. While he IL thus being 9iddy
with himself he loves prizetighterS. cabdriverS,
orcshoromen and other low foreheads. just
like YOU. Got thatY
All across de board replied my pug. in
tnreStsdly
want YOU just accidentally 10 meet up
with him tonight after the show. said |. He'll
take TO you like a pup TO a root | want you
lust To make him learn 10 love you, that's all
We're going TO show in this town for another
week, and then we're going south can
handle him when We get South, but I can't
do anything with him here ] don't want you
TO let him get out Of your sight. Lush with
him and talk fight with him md tell him the
history Of your life in your whole repertoire
81 languages. but deliver him 10 me NJ the stage
door every night NJ : O'Clock. and on the two
matinee DAYS NJ o'clock, in share TO 90 on
and work for his share Of the gate I don't
care how spifiicated YOU let him get or get
with him, between working hours. but I've
got To have him In his plav-aCting toys and
rcady for curtain rise az eACh and every rer-
Torrance Catch that7'
AN tree ways, rcplicd the pug
IAN right, said | Here's n stack Of greens,
which itis not stage money nor rain checks
either That's 50 youN he able To keep Your
end up with him The conditional end Of II
il this II YOU produce him for every perform
nnce and deliver him 10 me in time 10 get him
- IT. H. RRIH To- 0L.G attl -.