The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-28

AGbOI5 nave more troubles ana pleas
ures perhaps than any other class Of
people. They like to tell a hard luck
story now and then, and a manager who
can recount new experience, whether
actual or imaginary, if it sounds real
carries the medal until the next best
storg is told.
VIM. Rogers, Billy" Rogers, as he
is known in Texas, has been in town for
some time while the Crawford theater
he manages at Ell Paso is dark J. L.
Neronee, Of the Mortimer stock com.
pany, was also here, and the two start.
ed q contest.
An agent who went into Texas
tank town was chatting with the house
manager said Rogers leading off The
manager was telling him what swell
business the last company had done
SO you packed EN- IMP said the
agent.
. You can bet we did. stranger said
the manager.
What's your capacity?'
=" -Four hundred
" What were the prices2'
:" Twenty-Five, 35 and So
So you did the business, eh?'
That's right
What company was it?'
THE old fellow pulled his goatee
scratched his head, in his efforts to re-
member, and then called uD the stair
way to his wife in the living rooms
above:
Hannah, what is the name on those
trunks up there2'"
When the noise had subsidized veronee
put his best foot foremost
"A minstrel company had JUST parad-
ed down the street and returned to the
hotel. The landlord stepped up to a man
standing in the office.
. Excuse me, but didn't I see YOU
playing out there in the band, just
nOw?
!" No sir. The boys played my town
last week and I just thought I'd come
along over
THE landlord was persistent. He tried
another.
i" Excuse me, sir, but didn't you play
the cornet in the parade2'
90 No, sir. I'm the manager Of the
house at POdunk. The boys are nice
lot of fellows and J came over with
them
1.-THE landlord tried third. Are you
I should say not declared the man
addressed. I'm the sheriff, and / m GO
ing to stay with them till get my mon
"rhe landlord sadly scratched his
I thought there was something
wrong remarked the landlord. When
the manager came in here to register
the members of the company he handed
me a COPY of the play called Lost by
Neck and said learn the part of the
heavy villain in that play Get up on it
good SO youll know il. You'll be with
US next week.
punch Wheeler, who was here some
weeks ago as the advance agent for
THE Show Girl can tell a string of
hard luck stories as long as a Chinese
laundry wash list. He tells of the time
he was out with a company playing
Shakespearian pieces on the water
tank circuit. The manager of the COM
pany received the following telegram
from the manager of the theater after
they had played it: Can you play
return date of Hamlet The people are
not through laughing yet"
Wheeler told about trip ne made
to Mexico and Yucatan with Jerome
sykes. who was at that time the star
with the Alcazar Comedy company. He
ratified on at this rate for some time:
Mexico and Yucatan or Yucatan and
Mexico or some country that we got into
across the border was the worst ever
Why they put you in jail down there
unless you had just what was pictured
on the bill boards. I was ahead Of John
Robinson's circus once and we had
seven lions on the bills. One died and
when we hit that foreign country We
had only six. They counted the lions on
the bills and the lions in the show. We
came up one shy and they clapped us
in Jail That's the way they do down