The Jennings daily record., 1902-11-28

$50 bcgone dull care.
For the world is bright and gay:
And life is too brief
To entertain grief:
So let joy rule night ana DAY.
And with a knowing wink, sug-
gestiye smirk and wicked twirl OF
that nimble toe the singer swung him.
self into the wings amid hurricane
of applause There was no song and
dance man on the vaudeville stage
who set the people so wild as Billy
Pepsin and many times did he have
to come back and repeat the refrain OF
his latest song before the audience
would permit the next act to Ee put
on. The song seemed particularly To
fit the singer. OF all the light hearted
apostles OF careless gaiety, Billy Pep
sin was easily the most single hearted
and the great audience which sought
the theaters where he performed fair
ly reveled in his reckless merTiment
and thorough abandon.
And on this night even more tnar !
usual he threw himself into the very |
spirit of his part and with the ne"
song which was as foolish as it was
adaptable to Billy's peculiar atmos-
phere, he sent the audience fairly in
to Mysteries. They applauded until
they were tired from the very physical
exercise and agreed to a man that
there never had been anything so
funny since the dawn of time and
that such stunt could come only
from man who knew no care anc
never had no more serious RESPONSE
bility than to ascertain how he could
get light for his cigarette.
All, could that wildly cheering and
laughter-convulsed crowd have stepped
into Giacomo's Place an hour after the
| performance closed they would have
seen q very different side OF the pic
ture Giacomo (last name forever
| lost to history, was a smart little
Italian possessed of interchangeable per
sistence and wife who could cook
with that divine touch which is given
only now and then to the daughters of
Eve It was a shabby little place of
an alley, never TOO clean and almost
impossible in wet weather. Almost,
say advisedly, because it never was
impossible to the stage people of the
middle type who formed the principal
support of Giacomo This partly be.
cause the cooking and the wines were
so good-and cheap, for your actor of
any class knows what is good and
wants it. and perforce his purse
strings forbid Sherry's or Rectors as
steady diet. And then the place
was always open-at least until the
last straggler was ready to retire. The
lights never went out before dawn
and many a morn did Giacomo doze
behind the little bar and his fat wife
: in chair in the cramped kitchen un-
> til full time to open again for the
days business.
> OF course the actors did not make
up the whole OF the patronage OF
e Giacomos Place Many of the coun
+ trymen of the proprietor, of the
v more prosperous class, found theil
i, | way there and reveled in the spaghetti
and the pure wine Of the land of theil
nativity, also, during the still watches
h of the night did many newspaper mer
q through with their protracted grind
. pick their way through the grimy ai
4 ley for their early morning repast
n And the place was not without a Ger
a tain reputation to the more prospVo III
ii portion OF mankind and often cam
~ parties. with keen desire to behold
Bohemia-parties who looked not a
the prices on the bill of fare at al
r, but dined and wined and went bac
into society.
tu Well, on the night of which W
spoke IN opening this sketch an hou
n, after the performance closed at tn
~ Lyceum. any one strolling into Gi;
~ como's might have seen nearly the e1
-, tire party of actors and actresses wh
ed nau enter .a1.|u ,neA .. s,;,
.f eating and drinking and quarrelir