Evening star., 1901-05-04

There will be an intermission of twenty
minutes duration, during which the foreign
musicians viii faay again. After the per-
1ormance they Will continue as long as the
audience cares 30 remain in the theater.
Ihls Is an innovation that will be appre-
clated, as Washington theatergoers are
fond of exchanging courtesies during inter-
missions at the playhouses, and with
band to accompany their promenade 1t is
expected by MIR. Chase that this feature
Will prove most agreeable in varying the
tedlum of sitting through performance.
Arthur Dunn. the little comedian who is
to play the part of Flpper at the Column
bia next week, is the brother-in-law of
Ezra Kendall, the Well-known monOlogist.
Born in Chicago, he made his debut about
twenty years ago. appearing with his Sis
ter in the team of Arthur and Jennie Dunn.
Being exceptionally clever dancers and
pretty good singers. they were soon in the
front rank as a team. They were en-
gagged by the management of the Howard
Atheneum Company, which at that time
was one of the strongest variety compa-
MES that ever toured this country. They
made splendid impression throughout the
country, and Ezra Kendall, dropping into
theater one day while they We're perform
Ing, was struck with their work and en-
gagged them at once to play the kids in a
new piece that he was about to present,
entitled "A Pair of Kids" They remained
with Kendall for some years. the latter
marrying Jennie, the sister, which broke
up the team.
Arthur Dunn then discovered Miss Jer-
ome, who is still playing opposite him in
"A Runaway Girl and they doubled up
70 do team work in the vaudeville theaters
He has done considerable work in the oper-
atlc line. He originated the part of the
Bell Boy in Excelsior, Jr,'' when that
piece was produced by E. E. Rice at the
New York Theater He was also promi-
nent in several of Hoyt's early plays. He
was one of the first performers that did
burlesque act with a piano, which has
been copied so much. He has been play
ing the part of F'lipper with "a Runaway
Glrl during this season and has also been
engaged to play at Manhattan Beach, when
the company leaves the Columbia.
John b. Park, who plays the part of Guy
Stanley in "a Runaway Girl" in relating
some of the "reminiscences of his early
career in the theatrical profession, states
that he began his career as super in
Boston, and that on one occasion when
doing the honors for Edwin Booth the fol-
lowing incident occurred:
MIR. Booth was very popular in Boston
and the house was usually sold out for a
long time prior to his appearance. The
manager being of thrifty disposition, de-
cided to place number of reserved chairs
on the stage at an advance of the best
seats on the main floor. The idea proved
to be q good one from financial stand
point, as an opportunity to be SO close to
the great actor was considered an honor,
and pressure was brought to bear on the
manager ofithe house by some of the lead
ing society people to be allowed on the
stage. Hamlet was the production, and
the constant changing of the scenery with
large crowd about greatly interfered with
the stage hands. All went we'll until the
duel in the last act. In swinging his sword
Hamlet accidentally knocked one of the
helmets lying on the table in the air. In
descending at struck an attache on the
head. That person then and there declared
his feeling Of disgust toward the tragediaa
Hardly had his words ceased before Ham
let's sword broke and struck the same fell
low on the eReek, infiicting painful though
not dangerous wound. Rubbing his hand to
his face and finding it bleeding, the scene
shlfter yelled, "a great tragedian, aye. A
bloody butcher I think"
1t requires a block and tackle and dozen
men to pull an elephants TOOTH 1t isn't
often done, so the means Of performing
the unique and ponderous operation are
not on record In the established order of
things. but the manager of Ringing
brothers circus had q case on their hands
two weeks ago which will doubtless take
a definite place in elephant history and be
duly chronicled and classified in the dental
books of the veterinarians. 1t all came
about through Babylon's having the tooth
ache Babylon is one of the lady elephants
In the herd of twenty-five which shake the
tented earth for Messrs Ringing Brothers
one of the two Oldest in the bunch as
we'll.
Just before the circus reached Chicago
from it's winter quarters at Baraboo Wis,
Babylon began to act queer. She groared:
she swayed from side to side; then Iapsed
into fits of apparent surliness and wouldn.t
very much surprised Mr.. Pearl Souders
H. X. o. E.-head keeper of elephants for
Ringling'S menagere.
Poor lod girl sighed Mr.. Souder. II. K.
o. E., shes losing her compass-going
clean off the chart, that's what she is'
Cray as goat" declared a work hanu
Better tap her on the roof with an ak
and leave her to the birds"
Mr.. Spencer Alexander C, V.-chief VET
erinarian-took Babylon's temperature and
found 1t normal. He observed that her
eyes were running, and said some wise
things about them in words that nobody
understood. None of this seemed to afford
the patient any relief. She continued to act
queer On the way to Chicago Babylon oc-
cupied car with Fanny and three other
elephants. Fanny is the second Oldest ele-
phant of the herd. She and Babylon were
the two first elephants the Ringing Broth
ers owned-they were the nucleus Of the
immense menagerie which now trains with
the show. Fanny and Babylon always as
sociate together in business and in pleas
ure. They have always Travelled together
They are, or were two weeks ago, tre-
mendous friends. But on the ride to Chi
cago Babylon bit off Fanny's tail. Whether
it was an accident or not no one can ever
know, since neither Of the principals con-
cerned in the unfortunate affair can ever
be made to talk of it. The fact remained
that the tail was of when dawn came in
through the bars of the Pullman. and
Fanny raised roar about It,
"Now, 1 guess nobody'n deny the old
lady's daffy" said the work hand who had
previously condemned her. Nothing but
a daffy elephant d bite another's tail ofY.''
The reasoning was clear enough to suit
Mr.. Souders. H. X. o. E., and Mr. Alexan-
der, c. ", but while court of managers
were debating Babylon's case In Chicago
a skeptic turned up in the person of John
Barrett, onefof the clowns
"You want. to know what's wrong with
that elephantT' he remarked sauntering
UP with his hands in his pockets. ''Why'
she's got the toothache. One of her teeth
is on strike, sure-that's all'
And sure enough that is what the trouble
was discovered to be. So they set abou,,
half the circus crew, to devise ways and
means of pulling, BabylOns a tooth II uas