The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
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Yes, was the reply, with an interro-
"Well, 1 felt considerable hesitancy
about addressing ycu. but in Justice I
must. want 10 pay you the price OF I'D
mission to a performance OF yours some
years ago.
Mr.. Richnan looked more interrogating.
Il was in the audience at one Of your
the stranger went on to say. THE piece
you were presenting was 'Deadshot Dicks
Last Job. had hidden myself In box
of ola clothes; and heard the play without
then that l think I ought to make good
Here, sir, is penny. That was the price
Of admission, was 1t not?''
With that he bowed and hurried away,
leaving the actor standing staring at the
penny in his hand. Presently Mr.. Rich
man smiled and walked up Broadway with
far-away look in his eyes. All. those at
tic days Of boyhood!
One Of Eddie Foy's scenes in Mr. Blue
beard" is played with comedy elephant.
One evening last week the comedians
son, aged L. was calling upon papa at the
theater, and was permitted to stand in
the wings, that he might enjoy his par
ents Glowing. Tho young man laughed
uproariously throughout the scene. and the
stage manager good-naturedly observed:
Your father is pretty funny man,
isn't he?
The lad became grave of countenance at
once. II was laughing at the elephant"
he replied.
Edwin Arden has birthday. And the
birthday brought him kilograms of con-
graduation. for Edwin is popular with his
set. Some of them referred to his present
engagement with Eleanor Robson and
Merely Mary Ann" They. read:
in ardsn Is IS Ga ns MssS
married at the age Of 81 how S "a i, s6 SSS
May Merely Ann S a.sn y nRPY sR1Ssr-
Hoot. mon. tits q. bonnie IsssIe you're with for
We know the real truth about your age but
Lew FIELDS.
Viola Allen is soon to revive Twelfth
Night at the Olympic. This play forms
an important feature in the repertoire of
every state theater From the year-books
OF the German Shakespeare Society, re-
Gently published. we find that Twelfth
Night was given in the German Empire
thirty-three times in 1887, twenty-one in
consideration its place in complete collec-
tions of Shakespeare's writings into near
ly every civilized tongue, it has been sep
bics BY W. r. Hardi die in 1852. by Sv porch a
into French. under the title of "Comte
d'Avril." into German -four tmes), into
Polish. Swedish. Russian and italian. On
the English and American stage the COM
edy has been a great fayorite for over
800 years-an unprecedented record. All
the great actresses of the English and
American stage have essayed the role of
Viola.
CURRENT PLAYBILLS.
The Sultan Of Sulu,'' with Frank Mou-
Ian in the title role, will be seen at the
Olympic this week.
1t is perhaps retailing old information
to state that when George AIDE and Al
fred G. Wathall, his associate in the con-
struction of 1.-THE Sultan of Sulu," came
from the Philippines, they were loaded up
with an amount of material which Mr..
AIDE has, chosen to treat in a whimsical
way, and which Mr.. Wathall has further
treated from a Filipino musical stand
point to certain degree.
The idea of the United States treating
with the little Sultan of the Island of
Jolo to secure his allegiance to the Amer
lean flag is the subject which AIDE has
cartooEed in this now famous light musi-
cal production.
The fact that the Sultan had more wives
than Brigham Young and all his official
associates together, and that he has been
busy annexing everything in that line to
his royal household. has been utilized by
AIDE to such an extent that hundreds OF
thousands Of theater-goers without regard