Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1903-07-16
sREAK A LooklNo.oLAss
And Yoa win Have Extraordiaar,
Coed Luck, 10 They Hav.

Coed Luck, 30 They Saw
II you seek good luck, break look.
ng.glass. II you wish extraordinary
good fortune, smash lot Of them.
Such at least would likely be the ad.
vice OF Miss Henrietta Crosman aud
the members Of her company, and they
would speak from an experience found.
cd ON fact. - ga
For Miss Crosman has thoroughly
dlsproved the old wives fable that
seven years bad luck follows the
breaking OF a looking.glass. In the
three years that Miss Crosman has
been starring. thirteehN mirrors have
been broken In her company, but ih.
stead OF misfortune and calamity at.
tending these mlshaps, they seem each
time to bring run OF good luck.
Strangely enough. the arst and the
thirteenth mirror were broken In Hos.
ton. Miss Crosman was about TO be.
gin an engagement at the. fremont
Theater, Boston, three years ago,
when one OF the clty's street. cleaning
cars smashed large looking.glass
which was part fthe stage equipment,
and which had just been taken from a
transfer wagon and placed near the
stage door. When II became known
throughout the company that looking.
glass had been broken all manner Of
dire predictions were made. Theatrical
folk are superstltious above most hu.
man kind, and this looking.glass Incl.
dent was sufficient to till all with dis
may. The nrst notable event after the
brea king OF the glass was the appear.
ance OF q representative from the Bos.
ton street.cleaning department. who
paid the full value OF the damaged
property. which was $40 This did not
exactly look like bad luck, and was
viewed In the light Of marvel, for
such promptness and dispatch upon the
part of municipality had never be-
fore been heard OF.
Some time thereafter the company
was playing In New England city
when a gust Of wind caught looking
rglass that had been leaned against the
wall OF the theater In readiness to be
carried inside. and smashed Il into
bits. Again great fear assailed Miss
Crosman's company, but, as before, the
consequences were good instead OF
evil. for the engagement In this par
ticular town proved TO be the largest
In the history Of the local theater
Soon the third mirror was broken, and
as before some good luck befell. Then
the members Of Miss Crosman's com.
pany took heart and began to assure
themselves that II was lucky for them
to smash lookIng-glass. II 10 a con-
splcuous fact that every looking. glass
which has been broken In Miss Cros.
mans company has been followed by
some uncommon good fortune. Thus,
Just before the recent engagement In
Philadelphia, which In point OF receipts
was the biggest ever played by dra'
matte company In this country at sim.
liar prices, a large pier glass was bro
ken as II was being taken into the
thcater. In Albany also, last winter,
looking.glass was smashed In the
theater. and the engagement In that
city Is part OF dramatic history, as
the business was the biggest on record
and established Albany as great
theatrical city.
Then, again. Just before Miss Cros-
man and her company began their run
in Boston not long ago. another mir
ror met the fate OF its predecessors,
making the thirteenth that had been
broken in the company In three years.
The Boston engagement was a brilliant
success, and 1t was followed by New
England tour which has become cele-
brated as the most profitable ever play.
ed by any dramatic star In that Sec
tion OF the country. Not once has any
thing that In any way could be regard
ed as bad luck come on the heels OF a
mirror-smashlng. while In every In.
stance there has been a series OF lucky
happenings, until now there Is a
strong suspicion that some Of the mir
rors in Miss Crosman's company have
been broken purposely.