The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-30
THE
MAN ABOUT
TOWN
HARRYTUCKER.

All hail Henry Dvey!
The fellow with a heart as big as a
balloon, and purse whose latch-strinY
always hangs out Of his pocket.
Dixey and Nat Goodwin used TO be
in the same company once, and Dixey was
the whole show
They both used to be newsboys in Bos-
ton, and used to play MINISTRIES out in
the woodshed.
One day E. e. Rice wrote "Erangeline"
and gave Dixie and Good win q chance to
show what they could do. and what they
did was plenty. In "Evangeline" they
have heller that dances. and 1t was
Di1ey and Goodwin's place to be the va
rious legs OF tho heifer.
They were good dancers. and the heifer
was hit. Then Dxey and Goodwin got
promoted, and Richard Golden and an
other man, whose name has escaped us.
played the heifer.
Dixey got the best OF It all the time.
and MIR. Rice wrote another piece called
"Adonls,' in which Dxey was the whole
show. with whole lot OF pretty women
around him.
A big fortune was made for Rice with
"Adonis," and Dixey was famous.
Now 1t Is a question with the theatrical
critics az to whether Dlxey or Good win
with the majority in favor OF Dixey.
And that leads us up to the story we
started to tell.
Dixey and us were sitting In the Nor
ton House lobby one day in New York.
talking about the weather, Welsh rareblts
and things. when a man entered r. y. T..
He shuffied onto scat opposite US,
sat down, picked up day before yester-
days paper and started to read 1t upside
down.
Just as Dixey got to the point OF asking
us to have something. and just as We
were getting ready to 80 toward the cafe.
Dixey noticed the man reading the paper
upside down.
Hello, Bill" he said.
Hello, Harry!" was the reply.
Thought you were out on the road
with the Theodore combination"
Was" was the reply, but we went
to pieces at Kansas City two weeks ago,
and 1t took me just that time to get
back, and 1t hasn't been good weather for
walking either"
my, my" said Dixey. as his hand went
into his pocket You must need some
thing Here, go out and get turkish
bath, some new clothes, hat, a pair OF
shoes and shave, and If you have any
thing left. get something to eat"
Then Dixey dumped the contents OF his
pockets and his purse on the desk. and,
after the man had protested, but had been
persuaded to take the funds, he went out
with tears in his eyes. and we didn't
have enough to warrant our going into
the cafe.
THAT fellow is q good one" remarkcS
Dixey, "and 1t won't take him long to
back mp and get another engagement"
After that VIC went out on Broadway.
and down to the old Star Theatre.
Dixey stuck his hnnd In the window OF
tho box office and whispered something
to the man inside. The latter showed n
five out to him and we went over across
the street and got some Welsh rarebit.
after all, and we wonder II Dixey Will re-
call the incident as he makes that rare
bit to- might on the Academy Stage.
We have received some Of those cigars,
and we wish to thank Emmett Levy for
the same.
AS connoisseur, or words to that
| effect, we think we are a peach! but Wo
| like to get the opinion OF others. so when
| we handed Tom Leath one of THE Man
Abouts' and ordered him to smoke
| up and let US know what he thought of
| It, he did So and said 1t was so good no
| was going to stop smoking the brands
| his friends have been giving him.
That Is enough and that settles It.
| II ~