The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03
THE WEEKLY aRIsT.

tors medicine was pretty good after all.
THE WEEKLY aRIsT.
Funny Stories from stagsland Told in
Public. M
Clyde Fitch says that on one occasion
budding playwright managed to gain
access to Richard Mansfield for the
purpose of reading a play to him:
Mansfield took the manuscript from
the mans hand and glanced over it for
perhaps twenty minutes. Then he gave
it back with a few words of suggestion
and criticism. ~
IT do not think Mr.. Mansfield said
dispose of my ideas in this summary
fashion That play cost me a years
hard labor"
''Indeed!" said Mr. Mansfield. my
dear chap. an impartial judge would
give YOU at least ten!"
Sir Thomas Upton is renowned for
keeping his promises. and yet the irish
baronet claims the privilege of using
colloquial phrase without being held too
closely to its implied conditions.
1t will be recollected that Sir Thomas
said:
IF Shamrock III should lose. will
sell the boat for a song"
Recollecting this, Al Trehearn yester-
day sent him the following telegram:
You said you would sell Shamrock
Ill IOr d song. L am IOTNdTQlf1S d copy
of They All Speak Well of YOU Please
forward boat by return mail"
4 Sir Thomas thanked Mr.. Trehearn for
his courtesy. but the boat is still afioat.
CLYDE Fitch, who is back in New York
again, AYERS that on the voyage home he
overheard an old couple reviewing their
trip abroad with the aid of a Baedekei.
AS the old gentleman turned a leaf he
said: Venice? Venice? Let me see.
Were we in VENEER"
"Of course we were.' replied his wife.
Don't you remember that's where you
bought your heavy underclothes2
In the annals of the Chicago Press
club it is narrated that F. Hopkinson
Smith was one day being entertained by
the club when the subject of the work.
ing hours of literary men came up. Mr..
Smith, with his irreproachable clothes,
New York accent and fastidious armos-
phere, had already made himself rather
Objectionable to- certain members OF the
club. which has but recently. as all
know, putson any style .wha tever, and
when Mr.. Smith zaverred with his ele-
giant drawl that his working hours were
from u to 8 each day. or something to
that effect. there were visible signs of
ennui.
"At what time do you work. Ade?"
asked someone, turning to the young
dispenser of musical comedies and
slang.
Il OH between anxiety and neces-
sity,' said George AIDE as he rose and
strolled out of the room.
This story will serve, to introduce
number of press agents yarns about the
working times and places of their au-
thors.
Although Herr Robert Brockmann,
who arrived in this country a week or
so ago, was mulcted 50 in Jefferson po-
lice court the very day after landing,
there are native born persons in New
York who regard him as hero of noble
mind and daring courage
The language of Herr Brockmann
| himself, in describing the occurrence,
albeit tempered somewhat by his life So
journ in Berlin, is the best in which to
transcribe the occurrences which led to
his incarceration:.
"Judge-please. / sit by big park
which is SO beautiful like Inter den
Linden and music in al mean yes it is
plenty of music. After it is the music
The band plays something which-so I
think, Judges not music 1t is, they
call, please how do you say it. 1t is
| Higher Water'-Wasser Grosser.
so 1 step to der herr direktor and
lift my hat so I should do in the
g Please do not play that "Grosser
Wasser" some more say. it is, yes.
offensive to me-
The herr direktor smiles, and he
says:
There are some Stats loose
But again it is played
Please stop it now 7 say, for to
climb into the kiosque, myself to cease
it, please, I ask you nice
Then an unterofficer Won der policy
so it is, I am in the prison. Three
dollars, I shall pay? So. judge, it is
cheap so that they do not play Higher
Water 4"
Rose Coghlan. who has been specially
engaged for the role of Penelope in
stephen Phillips Ulysses tells the fol-
lowing story of visit that her brother.
Charles Coghlan. once paid to a friend,
who was one of the English nobility: =
One day at dinner said Miss Cogh-
Ian. my brothers host ordered bottle
of Cape to be set on the table. which
after magnifying its good qualities, and
in particular its age, he sent around the
table in glasses that scarcely held a
thimbleful.
Charles tasted the wine and then re-
marked that it was very fine wine,
:. Is it not curious?' said his lordship.
Perfectly so, indeed, responded my
brother. do not remember to nave
seen anything so little of its age in my
life before ="
Look here. Kirke," said Lawrence
D'Orsay to his manager. Kirke La
sheIle, the other day. Z must have
sOme-aw-retreat provided for me
when I'm off the stage.
Retreat? What do you mean?''
'eWhy-aw-this is it: There are so
many English actors over heah. now,
with more coming perpetualiy, don't
weahing me out. 1t seems to me as
if 1 must know the entiah profession
on the othah side, and they all want to
I--aw-congratulate me on my work
We'll, that doesn't hurt you, does
mo. dead boy, but the-aw-con-