Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-12
JAMES FIRST LESSON.
MonqloguIst's corbett and FtzsImmons
Are Coaching J. Edward Britt.
(By Robert Edgren)

Did you hear that mufhed sound2
II Is an earthuake. or has the Park
zoo broken loose again2
There It Is again--"B-r-r! bang thudw
i'll have 10 let you I'm on the secret
II Is j, Edward Britt being coached for
his monologue behind closed doors ut the
Metropole.
Robert FitEslmmons and James j. Cor
bett are doing the coaching. II that Isn't
a chance for funny pictures never saw
one.
There Is no doubt in the world that
Britt has two OF the best coaches In tho
business. II you doubt Il ask Corbett.
ASK F1tzsimmons. Each VIII vOuch for
one OF them,
James j. knows all about monologue He
eats EN- alive. All properly constituted
mOnologuos are set of by few fancy
steps and a song. Fitz Is the champion
tenor singer Cake.walker and fancy step
per OF the pugillstic brotherhood, This
does not include side-stepping Fitz isn't
a side-stepper
Corbett Is showing Jimmy just how to
tell a funny story, ana where 10 stop and
wait for the laugh. F'itz has taken charge
OF the singing and iigging end OF tho
game. Britt viii graduate a complete
compendium f'monologueism,
Robert Fitasimm0ns met Britt at tho
train and made an appointment to meet
him yesterday at the Metr0pole, before
leaving for Boston to box in John l., Sul-
livan's benefit. Jim Corbett caught jim
Britt on the telephone and also made an
appointment for the Metropole j. Cor.
belt, r. B'ltzsimmons, J. Britt and Mana
ger Billy met on time and sat down at a
round table Manager Billy, being out Of
training, assumed the thirst Of the party.
ana while II was being quenched tho
monologue question was brought under
"Thats the stuffp exclaimed Corbett,
"a good talker is better than a good
fighter any time when II comes 70 getting
Al. .,iO Ian N
fully. and for moment 1t looked as II
there would be an impromptu light
heavyweight championship fight Corhett
and Fitz haven't buried tho Ratchet since
their argument at Carson seven years
'dreat singers get theirs too" inter.
posed Jimmy Britt, automatically, and
fits let the kinks out OF hts hrsts.
you want to work the irish into that
monologue" said Corbett, turning 20
Britt TELL 'em something about what
your father said when YOU won your first
big fight, and hand 1t out IN a good
brogue, like the old man used before ne
was n supervisor"
Jimmy started a dialect story, and all
the party listened except FitsIimmonss
Who sat gazing out OF the window with
fer-away look in his eyes.
"And the old man used 10 get Billy and
me- out into the back alley and make us
tight like couple OF bantamg That =
the way ! learned TO tight. Billy was
the amateur champion feather, ana ne
ocule put II all over me until | grew up
We'll, l won an amateur championship
after n while and then the old man came
around to me and said: Jimmy, me bye
lis all right 20 be talun' II fall out aV
the lads once In a while, but av | over
catch you mixing up with thin scalawaRs
av professional fighters I'll lick you with
ia on inch ay your life.
"But YOU ought TO have heard him
when | licked Lavigno Tho street WASH I
wide enough to hold him and every
friend he met he'd stop and shake hands
and say. Didn't ! tell yo2 I always said
that bye av mino could HEX his weight
av Wildcats. Shuro he's A chip nv tho
old block, an there's nghun' In the
"Thats az" Ftz broke in, excitedly,
That's H. Block and stock Seer
That's poetry. Make your mono0gue In
poetry. and II you can't write IL III
write Il for you Did you ever hear the
poetry wrote when licked shnrkey2
"strIke up the band Fiu licked tho
with 'is Hight and e planted a mailer.
'Iu write II for you and you can sing
a. Ave you got a tenor voiee2 'ow
would this do?
""E's a chip hof the Old block,