Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-26
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G O O D
Short tories

Talking about graft" and graft
ers,' the other day, bib Biz Deyery
remarked: Say. the people as talk
about graft are the gingerbreadS. II
you had the right scent you could go
off Oh a hop loo after grafters some
night, and land Il long ways from the
Bowery. Some of the ablest grafters
are in that heightened class where to
mention their names with graft would
be as bad MS lightin' a cigar in church
Sunday morning. Say, did you hear
about the deaf and dumb man that got
his hands dirty tellin' smutty stories"
Some weeks ago, several friends Of
Senator Blackburn found him absorbed
In the act of reading the Presidents
message AS he read, he chuclled to
himself, and finally their curiosity be-
came so aroused that one of them APP
preached the Senator from Kentucky,
and asked for the joke. 1T has just
occurred to me-" solemnly observed the
Senator, that Mr.. Roosevelt's English
does not coruscate with the pyrotechnic
scintillations of obsolescent linguosity
which so extensively Illuminated the lu-
cubrations and Mutations of President
Cleveland"
In his Random Recollections,"
Charles ii. e. Brooktield, highly es-
teemed actor on the London stage, says:
Il remember a piece which we produc-
ed. at the Comedy Theater, written by
popular author, and very strongly
cast, which amused US all so much that
we could hardly rehearse it. Charles
Hawtrey used every now and then to
warn us: Now don't speak too soon on
that; there's certain to be big laugh,
and we don't want them to miss the
next line We rehearsed for six weeks.
On the first night nothing went wrong
but the piece. There was not one
laugh nor one round Of applause from
start to finish. We took off the comedy
in ten days, during which we rehearsed
as stop gap Il conventional three-act
farce with no literary pretensons.
think it ran for year"
Nat Goodwin, Daniel Frohman, and
several other men were standing in the
lobby Of Days Theater in New York
the other day before the matinee, when
some one suggested to Goodwin that
he would be afraid to go on the stage
in the second act of The BilliOnaire."
In this act the scene represents a thea
ter, with a stage, seats, and boxes.
There are people in the seats and boxes
and performance on the mimic stage
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the boxes of the mimic theater. He
said he wasn't afraid, and, when the
second act began, walked out on the
stage, much to the surprise of every
one, including the actors. Don't get
frightened" he said to the leading COM
edian, Jerome Sykes, in a voice
loud enough to be heard all over the
theater; cts only your old college
chum. Aren't you glad to see me?
was looking for Mrs. Osborne's play
house and drifted in here by mistake;
that's all. Now, go ahead with your
little show. Don't mind me. I'll be
good On the mimic stage the players
were trying to continue the perform
ance, but the real audience would not
uaNc IL So IneS Ldu recognized MI.
Goodwin, and the ovation he received
was tremendous. Finally little page
was able to announce that mime. Patti
has disappeared--' Fortunately. |
am prepared" broke in Mr. Sykes, in
his part as manager rising and lean
ing toward the box in which Mr.. Good
win had been sitting, but it was a mo-
ment too late-too late, too, for the
green calcium light to be thrown on the
face of Mr.. Goodwin, innocent as it
was of makeup, as Mr.. Sykes had has
tily given instructions should be done.
But the bird had flown and this bit Of
Oy-play was lost to the audience.