The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28

to be an attraction at the performance.
When the entertainment opened MrJef-
ferson was the first 90 appear. With a
number of other players the future
Nancy Brown stoed in the wings and
listened to the great actors remarks,
which took the character of a discourse
on dramatic art.
She was naturally much interested in
what the dean of the American stage
had to say about his own profession and
hers; and she was consequently greatly
annoyed when the two vaudeville per-
formers in question came down from
their dressing room and began to prac-
tice their steps behind the scenes, chat
tering all the time in such a fashion
that it was almost impossible to hear
what Mr.. Jefferson was saying.
Finally one of the girls walked over
to the wing where Miss CahilI was
standing and leaned over that young
womans shoulder to see what was hap
pening on the stage. Then her partner
joined her.
Say. Mag. what's going on out
there?''
logue.''
.'How's he going?''
Rotten. He's been on Is minutes, and
amt got laugh YETI
So we have playwrights even Of Clyde
FItchs caiber who ningle the humor
of song and dance turn with the SOL
emnities of a funeral And Mr.. Fitch
Charley Able is an amateur water
color artist of considerable note. Some
of his paintings adorn the rooms of the
Players club and the Lambs club in
New York. while not a few of his best
specimens have found a place in the
homes of Pittsburg art connoisseurs.
He has just finished a fine picture call
ed The Village Church Choir" which
will be on exhibition ~ Gillespie's art
rooms. Another of his latest oil paint
ings has for its subject a Fishing Shore
at Magnolia, Md" The genial coined
pastime of painting in odd moments
during rehearsals, and when he is not
on in the scenes during the perform
ance. His dressing room resembles the
studio Of an artist more than anything
else. He was showing this fishing shore
picture to William Ingersol1 the other
day. when Able remarked: Don't you
think the perspective is rather I'M
usual?"
"Perspectivet" retorted Ingersoll,
why, your mileage is marvellous
One of the stories Lew Dockstader is
| telling this season is laid at the door
of J. Pferpont Morgan According to
time took q notion into his head that
he wanted to own a New York news
paper, and as he usually wants the
best, he cabled to James Gordon Ben
L
"Cable quick lowest price New York
Herald
The answer that came was both short
| and direct:
''Three cents daily and cents Sun
day"
| When Sir Henry Irving was staying
| lately at the Queens hotel, Manchester,
a small boy about years old, son of
Mr.. William Mollson, a we'll known MEM
his rooms one afternoon. Invited to make
himself at home and take some refresh
ment, he consumed a pear and a bottle
of lemonade with apparent satisfaction.
Then gazing steadfastly at the host. he
said: Il do miss Phil May SO do we
| ALL" said Sir Henry, gravely. Yes, but
I miss him most pursued the child HE
hard" said Sir Henry. There was long
very earnestly: win you be my chuIn
now?'' So they swore eternal friendship
on the altar OF Phil Mays memory.
A sscub" reporter was sent to interview
Media few days ago. He had his Ques-
lions written out carefully. When the
queen of grand opera shook the spray of
the Campania from her shapely feet end
faced the lad he was almost speeches..
IT hear you've taken up ragtime like
the other nonarchS of Europel'
"Ragtimei Me! Horrible! Why, rag
time is only comic opera on the half
And the "cubs is wondering how such
a naughty creature can sing the gentle
and repentant Marguerite