The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-29

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Louis Post-Dispatch. just as the sheet
/ was about TO go 10 press a young re-
| porter approached the desk of the man
! aging editor and said:
Get another boy IN my place I'm
| through"
What's the matter?" his superior
asked
I've stood about all of this contact
with sin and misery that this news
paper game forces man no against
that I'm going TO stand"
But what are you going to do2'
the managing editor questioned
Dunno the youth replied. but
IT'S cinch I'm through with this
game"
And he was. He never returned to
the POst-Dispatch office or entered a
newspaper office again as an empIove.
The reporter was Augustus Thomas,
The playwright whose newest product,
The Earl of PaWtucket" now crowd
ing the Madison Square theatre In
New York, is said TO be the drouest
native comedy Of years.
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial as
ISOLATION has sent a request TO she
atrical managers throughout the cOun-
try 90 donate I per cent of their gross
receipts on Monday. April 13-the one
hundred and sixtieth birthday auni-
versary of the author of the Declare
ton of Independence the memorial
fund
The money thus collected is to go to-
ward completing the $500 600 the assO-
citation is raising for the purpose of
erecting in Washington a national
monument 10 jefferson.
The theatrical -JOseph-has
written am Endorsement of the scheme
and has promised TO give 1 per cent
of the receipts Of his performance IN
Nashville on the night 10 question.
In Philadelphia they are telling a
story of the way thar ID. w. Truss Of
The Country Girl company got the
better of Nixon & Zimmerman. The
North American v0uches FOR It's truth.
The amount of the nightly share un-
der the contract was based upon a GER
tain sum. which was understood TO be
$1,000. When the receipts reached or
exceeded that amount the attraction
was entitled to- higher percentage.
About 8 O'Clock one evening Mr..
Truss asked the ticket seller about how
much money there was iu the house.
About $500 was the answer. Mr..
Truss went back and gave $50 to the
stage manager. GO in front and buy
sixty admission tickets. he said.
When the house was counted up that
night the receipts We're q tri1e more F.
than $1,000. and Mr.. Truss demanded .
the extra percentage When Nixon d.
heard how they had been .
Outwitted they raised the roof with
their protests. but Mr.. Truss pointed .
out quietly that what ha had done was /
a favorite trick of the trust.
Nixon a. Zimmerman 40 last accounts .
had refused % pay the additional .
amount And they had also discharged /
the ticket seller.
Word comes from Saratoga that Nine.
Ianauschek, the distinguished Polish
actress. has fallen upon days so evil
that her friends are looking to the
members of the dramatic profession 20
come TO her assistance with the prompt
ness which generally distinguishes them
when some one OF their number who
has won their consideration has come
20 need their help.
Mime. Janauschek has been i'm at
saratoga for nearly a year. She has
suffered Two strokes of paralysis. which
nave left her a hopeless invalid. She
arely leaves the modest cottage where
.he Is cared for. and then only when
ome of her friends come 90 take her
or a drive Her physician gives no
nope that she VIII ever regain even
Measure of her former health and
strength
A most regrettable feature of the
Night in which the Polish tragedieune
.nds herself is her poverty. She is de-
Jared 90 be absolutely penniless. All
per savings and her Jewels have zone
o meet the expenses of her long illness.
nd she finds herself now without re-
uurces.
P.aygoers do not need to be reminded
4 The achievements of Mime. Janau-
chek. For many years she was iden-
~ in this country with a wide va
iety of parts. In which she was regard /
d as well ni8h IDEAL AS Lady Mac
eth she long excited the enthusiasm
I the most critical. and she met with
onsistent success in many classicah
oles. Her last appearance in this city
as about four years ago iu Colonel
-liriend's Great Diamond Robbery"