The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-06
CHIMMIE FADDEN,
Gives SOM Novel Views on Playwriting and
Describes a Bower 1hrilier
By EDWARD w. TOWNSEND.

l nave. SIC dShS, dS MI. raul Stops
to see had I fetched de bottle from de
| right bin.
My interest will be heart interest,
mixed wit a religious, and money and
mind cure interest.W We must catch EN-
going and coming; de gallery and de
boxes; de managers and de critics.
Dat will be too lovely" Miss Fannie
says. "When will you put your play
on
Il would be willing to put it on as
soon as ii is wrote, but I'm advised lat
it is de usual ting to keep il on cold
storage for Il few years, den to take it
to England. n have it done dere, for
to insure it a hearing here. Having
M dilogue and interest all attend to,
I'm told dat all dat is needed den, is a
dozen or SO new and bowling situations;
a sympathetic part for de leading lady.
0 good ~coitains. novel stage effects,
some lighting stunts dat will knock
Broadway silly, some mechanical novel
ties. gobs of relism, eight scenes never
tried before. a hacker Wit a million To
boin, and a cheerful temper not likely
TO get running rusty when de stage
manager knocks everything but de title
out of me manuscript"
But you have said noting about de
subject says Miss Fannie when she
had catched her breat.
Dat l has not decided upon as I was
saying. Everything else is fixed, but de
subject bOdders me. 1 has fought of de
open ditch on Broadway. but de a
when de public would stand for stage
horrors is passed; de open door, wit a
Russian gunbOat guarding it, has come
to kle mind; but de objection is dat it
might be mistOOk for a political play,
and dat is too much like hard Woik for
to be swallowed for amusement. Every
ting else is dead easy, but de subject
is a cOrker for fair. De Brooklyn
Bridge at de rush hour l has under con-
~sideration; but Manufacturers would say
dat it was too exaggerated - and
Brooklyn would mob it,
Mr.. Paul stops to oil his bearings, and
Miss Fannie says why don't he take
some of de book wrote by a felly named
Scott.
L should tink," says she. dat de
score of adventure books dear Scott
wrote would give you subjects, dey
is in de line of lots of plays dat has been
successful lately"
M dear" he says" you prove dat
it, is you. not me. dat should be de play
wright of de family. a gent l know,
who has noting to do, has been going
to de teeaterS de last five years for de
sole poipose of running down de be-
sinnings of de modern historical-novel-
plays, and he is tickled to deaf with his
record: for he has found dat not one of
me old fren Scott's novels a escaped.
Dey is all on de stage under new
m If you had only give me dis
tip a few years ago I'd now be drag
sing royalties from de box offices of
Sudern, Mansfield, Hackett. and a
bunch of lady stars as we'll. No. we
must seek something new, and at dis
blessed moment I'm divided betWeen'de
eclipse of de moon, and when is a fish
why it bites as de subject of me i'm
mortal drama"
/ shouldn't wonder but Mr.. Paul was
kidding Il little in dat game of talk.
If l had time to write a play de sub
Ject wouldn't bOdder me a little bit. /
seen a play on de Bowry once. and it
de cOrkingist play dat ever was
acted out on top of de stage. De name
Of it was DE Floorwalker'S Folly, or
Grand Street by Gaslight.' Say, it was
a peachG De F~loorwalker was de viii
lain. but in de start tings comes his
way SO fast dat he had to dodge en-.
OATS funny, too. Villains always truns
skies at d start, n twos at the end.
l wonder why? When 1 rites me own
play I'm going to give de villain a
start TO de bad, and have him put UP
all de margin OATS called for, and win
out at de end wit hands down, giving
de foe de ha-ha. DatIn be realism, n
you'll have to keep people out of de
teeater wit a gattling gun.
But as I was saying, dis play was to
de good. all right. De owner Of de store
has a daughter, see? and she was de
star. Floorwalker says to her, he says.
Fly wit me to Grand street." he says,
We'll live happy ever after de old
gent gives me de store to run on me
own account" he say
Sure. Reginald, DEAR she says"
sure. as soon as 1 see is me hat on
straight But dere was a goil in de
store what sold corset covers, and she
had a call on de Floorwalker she
cancel. She wasn't de lead
ing lady, but de one what wears black
close. wit white cuffs and collar, and
she says to de leading lady, Daughter
vi NC IlcIl, she says, WnaI KNOW you
of de suffering OF de poor?" Den de
leading lady says, ".Woman," she says, !
I have trouble of me own. What
wouldnst dow wit me?" she says. Den
Collars and Cuffs says, 81 have noting
in dis woild but me love for Reginald.
He IS a villain, but 1 love him; and
cen when he vas a cash boy in de rib |
bon section I promised him my hand.
Seek your playtings in de purlieus OF de |
rich, but come not here" she says, ooh,
come not herei" |
So de leading lady changes her make |
and goes to woik as n cloak model
in de store for TO get a fair line on I!
Reggie. Nobody knows it but her and