The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-18

The Stories Of the Well Known
Theatrical Mans Many Dis
tant Wanderings.

Know Jimmy Love. the Honolulu
Elk, who died in San Francisco the
other day? Well, reckon 1 do"
said a much-traveled man yesterday.
.Igguess met Love in many corners
OF the globe, and I know others who
have met him in many other corners,
and 1 believe that Love had a small
corner of his heart especially reserved
for Honolulu. AT any rate he was a
member of the Elks there.
Love was most original fellow.
One day you found him in riches. An
other. he would be pawning watch
that Nance O'Neil gave him. He was
a theatrical agent, you know l first
met him in the East many years gao.
Then 1 met him in Capetown, years
afterward. A year ago / met him in
Australia. He looked the same age on
each OCCASION. He never seemed to
grow day older than he was the day
before In action, he grew younger
every day and j never saw liyelier
man ahead of a. show.
Australians don't quite understand
the American press agent ahead of a
theatrical party, and Love used to tell
little story of how he introduced
show in Australia He took the first
ill-fated Henry Lee & Rial Worlds
Entertainers" combination to the Aus
tralian towns and had a stack of
trouble in getting the newspapers to-
use his advance notices. He struck
the hardest patch in Adelaide South
Australian city. He called on an ed
itor there, presented his card, and said
How de do, Mister The editor said
likewise in phrases a little longer
around, and then wanted to know
what he could do for his visitor. Love
commenced to hand out bushels of ad
vance notices about members of the
combination. That's all right, said
the editor, but I'll see the troupe my
self when it comes here, and then I'll
know all about Vt. What good Is it
for you to tell me now?' Love then
went into an argument over the func-
lions of an advance man. The editor
could not see that they were of any
use and finally shouted: The only
Yankee. yarn / could possibly be will
ling to hear from you would be thar
story about what one of your South
ern governors said-to er, er--to an
other.
Love was on his feet in a minute
and Yves literally carrying the chief
scribe off to the nearest hotel for a.
'drap' of brandy an scotch The next
day the paper contained nearly three
columns concerning the Worlds En-
tertainers', great artists from London,
Paris, and New York
Love went to Broken Hill, a mining
town of twenty thousand people. Here
he went out for a good time with
some friends, and for a wager declared
that he could get free drink for ev-
cry member of the party in every hotel
in town. There were only thirty-fve
hotels in this small city! Love led
the party to twenty OF these. He
shouted for all hands, and then turn
ing to the bar-maid would stiffiy say:
All, we paid for the drinks, did we,
not? Certainly And with a bow to
the astonished bar-maid would aepart.
Love was released in court next E.orn-
ing only on a promise to go and pay
each Of the hotel bills for drinks He
lost the wager, but afterwards deciar-
ed that he must have been drunk as
he had taken in liquor in several
kinds of languages.
Love learned that the Lee C Rial
Company expected to discharge him on
their arrival in Melbourne. When he
went to that city to book the COM
many he was to have taken the lease
" the only available theatre in the
city for the Lee & Rial continuation
Instead, he got the theatre il his own
name for six months at a small price
When Lee & Rial came along they
fired him, but had to pay him $4,000
before he would allow them 20 show
in the house. Then he organized q
small company and started for Manila
Il believe that Love has daughter
about % years of age. One day when
he was walking in San Francisco they
met friend of the daughters who
whispered in her ear: Send your hor-
rid young man away minute while i
speak to you Yet Love had lived
longer than the combined ages of the
two wouil amount to-