The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-17
HOPPER TELLS OF
WANG And CASEY
ELONGATED COMEDIAN DELVES
INTO HISTORY.
Doesn't Like the Regent Because He's
Such Hard Work Mystery Of
"Oasey's" Authorship Is Finally
Solved.

I shall always have a soft spot in
my heart for .Wang,''' said De
Wolf Hopper today, "because it was
in that character I got my feet in
firmly. The part I never liked, prin-
cipally, because I dislike anything that
savors Of too much expended energy.
I don't get chance to do anything
else but work. When I say I never
really liked it, you must imagine if you
can that I do and I don't; I like it
success, and I don't like it because
have to work most Internally hard'
"Will you confde to long suffering
PUBLIC li MI, Mr.: Hopper where and how you
! "Ah! N, Now thereby y hangs a story;
the light. It was in 1887 that Archi.
bald Clavering Gunther sent Casey to
me. He never said where he got it,
but merely requested that should re-
cite it the next day, when the Chicago
| and New York baseball clubs would be
ance came around and in the boxes sat
the two ball teams. There were old
| Arson, Ewing and other famous ball
players. To make long story, short,
an enormous hit.
wrot bu; + w s;3 olo II COME Aro" . WHO
j CHOW you just wait a minute: I am
coming to that. After the show I
hunted up Gunther and asked him the
name Of the man who wrote Casey
He said he didn't know, and told me
] he had cut it out of the San Francisco
Examiner. tried for four years to
, asked every one. There were initials
: signed to the gem, but that was all.
1 p. L. THAT was every blessed thing
6as ais6t was playing I'M: =. Wang
ward, and 1 got note asking if I
z would come round to club knew
after the show and meet the author
Of Casey Say, if Queen Victoria had
d sent for me to, 20 to Windsor to recite
(, it I would not have been more aston
d ished. Did I gos You can place money
J. Ernest L. Thayer, a manufacturer Of
Worcester. A charming fellow. Every
r. one knew him and liked him. There
t. you. are. We met and-but over thu
e other details Of the wassail that fol
1T lowed | will draw the veil Of charity,
Wang has been received this times ,
ID "What more can you asks Here i
d an old piece, written when musical com
i Gdies were Just beginning and and see 1 Aoy
v viVal9 This hi rev reyiya al game is always
dangerous experiment, you know. Sar
Shubert, however, deserves all tn
credit. Three years ago he begged m
to to consider the piece for a revival.
had just returned from London and tn
war had put crimp in me. wante
o a chance to get back on Easy stree
=: again, and put him off.
OF "Later he spoke about it again: I
~ fact, never ceased hearing of wang
IT. from Samuel until last season, whe
a J finally and reluctantly. gave my COZ
~ sent. He put up a. production that
q f; sssS'' Ike t vii IS $5s7 -
"Had you forgotten much of tt
"No. I don't believe a man ev
l on forgets ANYTHING, really Kin I'll trlae + ne
b. be but he can get it back: 7 believe
ON without having looked at the, pal
eld dressed and gone on, and feel su
nth tn degrees. - -
u'D HWhat was the most comfortat
' s thing s19gt the revival that you
H. t"The blissful knowledge that if g
= not have to foot the bills: That Civ
,ol- a. man mighty comfortable feeling
w. the chest. Win or lose, he gets h
- You can imagine the feelings Of M
who goes on the stage and observ
about $40 in the house: Just ask h
to be a real, old familiar out-up a
md see how much comedy he is capall
of turning out. But, the knowled
~ that some one else is going TO- set
"a "a, if things are going badly, and that
.en you have to do is to amble around ca
late Meeh anu oH.ieoo vno 7.o,,G 1,os;tion a,
had ta1ns you III yOeei pnuuu PI FL r.
,esa good house; I like that just as a
1853 one does; for when you have a &c
tzer house, your work is a whole lot cas-
The for you and every one else. -.
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