The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25
THE STORY TELLERs.
Jokes and Puns of Players On and
on the Stage.

Jokes and Puns of Players On and
on the Stage.
During a tour of the west, E. H.
Sothern met d literary woman who said
Pm an ideaiist. Mr.. sothern. and
want to congratulate you upon your
work. You make your character a
man apart from our little world
Then, I'm not true to life. according
to your ideals, madam replied the
Certainly not, Mr.. sothern. why,
people wouldn't go to the theater to
want to see something like yourself;
something that never existed"
Yes. Your work is heavenly. with
just a dash of-you know-the other
Thank you, madame, for your sin
cere observations. You have given me
an idea. Perhaps I have been deceiving
the public. I'll have myself billed in
future as a Forerunner of the Here
after
Wright Lorimer. whose production of
The Shepherd King has been one OF
the features of the season in New York,
tells an amusing story of a visit to a
friends house in England.
IT was making an unexpected call on
said Mr.. Lorimer. when the servant
came to the door I asked if Mr.. Arbut-
mart was in"
Master has gone OUT was the re-
rs Mrs. Arbutmart in?"
''Missus has gone out, too"
| well, I think I'll come in and warm
by the fire before I start back to Lon
don"
you're welcome to come in, sir said
the servant. but the fires gone out,
too"
NAT" Goodwin is generously gratified
at the success of his wife, beautiful
Maxine Elliott's, first season as a star,
q season which has been much less pro-
{pitfous for himself. OF Mr.. Goodwin S
company is Nell O'Brien. whose wife,
/ Eva Davenport, carries off first female
honors in 1.-The Yankee Cousin AS
advices came from the metropolis, the
i husbands on the road compared news
paper accounts. This was their chief
| soIace the last seven weeks of the tour,
which was made up of one night stands.
One morning the two met in the stiff
/ ing hall of an up the state hotel Eacn
held a handful of clippings laudatory
| of his absent spouse and her metropol-
itan scorings- According to custom,
| they solemnly exchanged them.
Nat Goodwin refiectively rubbed his
chin. He smiled the only Goodwin
I'VE picked couple of live ones
didn't we?"
De Wolf Hopper na0 a SllSnC cOlu the
other night, and in a curtain speech he
referred to it in this fashion:
II went to my doctor" he declared
land the doctor said I had been eating
4 too much nitrogenous food and must
stop it and eat farinaceous food Since
| then I haven't been able to eat at all,
for I don't know what either word
means"
Lionel Barrymore, who plays Kid
Carvin the prizefghter in The Other
Girl is known by various nicknamesi
! but Lincoln seems the one which has
/ recently superseded them all, but why
| is not known to many Thereby hangs
a little story. 1t seems Mr.. Barrymore
has a man who was once a prizefighteI
/ and is now a very able dresser. He is
| generally conceded to be the most ig-
1 norant colored person in the western
hemisphere. The other day he was told
to be on hand February II for an extra
sfWna; for?" asked the colored gentle
man.
ssWaI, if dis dom beat any city fel
holidays I evan see. knowed WASH
fngton had one, but I neber sposeo
dey'd give wan for Mas Lincum."
why you ought certainly to know
Of Abe Lincoln; he freed you. Joe, sug-
gested his employer.
knows him? Cohse knows him
But he amt give me no vacation. say
what's you talkin bout anyway, Ell? p
Theatrical Notes.