The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-16
THE ONF-NIGHT STAND MISFRIES.

ASSIGNED for tventv-one consecutive
davs to rooms containing this nam
pine. They were not only una Die 20
regulate the heat. but were awakened
every morning at by the shalpluo
and expanding of the iron. But lheS
were an amiable pair
THE man and wife have rather
hard time OF it always. You may hear
him in this particular company arg
ing over the unfairness of putting TWO
in q single room while paying the same
rate as the rest of the company VINO
occrpv rooms by themselves To the
Justice of this plant the clerk is bind
Not only he cannot give them lar-
GER room. but two single rooms Win
connecting doors is unheard or 20
they accept their fate and crowd them
selves in. proving once more that an
ancient Institution of marriage mas us
disadvantages in stageland.
Towels, You may receive one or
two and they are sure to be small ana
ragged. Dc not press the chamber
maid on the subject. She will tell you
that the actors do not get the best
towels because they steal them. 1hat
may make you indignant, but she VIII
stick to her point and she is not TO De
blamed, for she judges the whole ira
ternity by the type she knows pest
the companies VINO infest the small
towns never see the cities and are the
riff-raff. And yet this petty thieVing
is not limited to stage people. In a re-
cent article on this form Of stealing
the actor thief was even not mentioned
But he exists. There is a certain Wo-
man who is a favOrite with theatre
goers and who purlOins small articles
in the most charming way 100 want
to 90 traveling?" she COOS, and tucks
the salt cellar into her handbag. An
other actress. proud of her souvenir
hotel collection of pilfered articles. was
told with mock seriousness by her col
( leagues that they had just been turned
away from a hotel, the proprietor re
fusing to take actors because she had
once been there and had gone OF with
the water pitcher and floor rugs.
That's not so cried the woman,
with much indignation
Why not?' asked the delighted cho-
rus
=" Because I've never stopped there,
she innocently said
: A young leading man the other day
managed to extract a few sheets Of
writing paper from the office and tim
orousIy asked for ink and after a long
pause, for a pen. The proprietor
scowIed.
E" We rarely give pens he said, hand
/ ing over a queer one, people steal EN-
This young man has now a chast-
/ ened spirit. but when his blood ran hot
/ he once wrote ahead and managed to
secure room with a bath It was such
( a luxury and the weather so warm that
( he took two baths in a day and was
promptly reprimanded by the innkeep-
/ er. The star boarder demanded his bill,
which was made out with much alaC-
/ rity. and then the young man found the
/ hotel TO be the only one in town, and
/ after hours of proving about he spent
/ the night as guest of a SalOOnkeeper.
| AT times the actor is peevish aud
! there are few companies without a
chronic kicker But these little cells
| greater part of their life must be spent
! in them. and surely they can be for
given for honest indignation over dirty
! floors and i'll smelling bed linen.
"A most beautiful yOunr star. whose
manager felt the necessity of few
one-night stands during her season, not
| long ago sat discOnsolately in the large
! room reserved for her on the first floor
and for which she paid high. The floor
was Uttered with matches. and cigar
cite stubs were found in the corners.
She rang for the chambermaid and sug-
gested a broom
You needn't talk" said the girl. cts
your dupes and your class who makes
the rooms this away She was not
especially at fault; she took her tone
| from the man who employed her.
J In some Of the small Texas towns
the hotel rate is raised if you are with
a show, and a company of UNUSUALLY
we'll bred men and women who were 81
unfortunate as to be with play thai
| carried pickaninnies were looked uEor
as the white folks who Travelled with =
niger troupe" and were turned aAay
from a southern hotel
Luckily all the tavern keepers are
not so suspicious as one in the far west
who would not allow any members of :
company to occupy rooms with a FIRE
escape for fear of their skipping tbei,
board