The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-08-07
sONf1CAI CONFESSIONS OF CLEVER
COMEDIANS. BYE. p. Pitser. Edited

CONf1CALi CONFESSIONS OF CLEVER
! COMEDIANS. BYE. p. PitEer. Edited
BY De Wolf Hopper. Street and Smith,
New York and London. 207 pages.
Here is something new under the sun.
The little volume hns for its cover de-
tents programme OF tho All Star
Vaudeville Company" which will give a
continuous performance from nov until
then The programme opens with De
Wolf Hopper. I'm his Eccentric Base ball
Juggling Act and continues for fifteen
numbers with the appearance OF Jimmie
Powers, Francis Wilson, eff. De Angels,
Lew Dockstader. Willie Collier, Walter
Jones. Joe Weber, DIE by5 Bell, Dave
Warfield, and others. The owners Of
these we'll known names each gives a: per-
formancc, gently guided by Mr. Pitzer.
Between the acts pictorial views are
given BY John lC-rosslcy's ,nequa tailed
Crcssleyoscope. The audience is informed
that Opera glasses with which to 81 see
the$points of5sthe Jokes can be secured
at any jewelry store and that wat Ter,
ing pots will be found under the seat IS, to
be used on any dry humor discovered In
the show * #
III is the class of humor that makes
tho gallery gurraw. but t. some o. ! is.
Very funny. 83S & Z MS
There isIEan exceedingly amusing PEN
picture of jeff. de Angels playing the.
agricuhurist on a Long Island farm, The
cottage Is described as Ia handsome
frame structure, standing in clutnp of
cedars and two feet of mud. But the
vegetable garden is a wonder Il plowed
the land Jeff. de Angels is represented
as saying land planted every kind Of
seed I could think O potato seed pump,
i kin seed. bird seed. flax seed. and SOW.
forth planted two kinds ofsegg plants
hard boiled and fried; but they had
hardly peeped out Of the ground when
my chickens got into the patch and
scrambled It EN-. # " l ~ sl 55 5
De Wolf Hopper Is depicted a on the
baseball diamond. "My pitching Was
frantic" vys the struthful#narrator, and
so was the crowd: Some said I reminded
them OF a certain n ew York surface car.
because d had a dead mans curve I
pitched the sphere with such force the
batter could never see 5it-it was always
In back OF him. It he umpire kept on
yelling balls, and 81 prot sted against
"a non-unions umpire 4 who eyer called
strikes. Is Oh Isl
Jimmie Powers and His Wonderful
Trained Equines is great. Jimmie bought
n horse. Barring q prominent ring bone.
a little wind collie q tght attack Of
heaves. a pink eye, and q spavir leg, he
wasn't such nbadH looking animal.
when thought that had trained
my horse as Fl a 8 a Sfid Idle, rs Tvs jimmie.
~ took him out on the road to- see how
he would so. But he wouldn' 4 go. He only
backed up, and kept on backing up for 81
whole week. Maybe a some time In his
life he fell and his body got sort o.
twisted, and had saddled him wrongly
But I soon 5disrelled such a thought and
decided to enter him in q race. And J
did. 55
"When the barrier went UP my horse
started out in front-backwards. This
confused the other horses to such an
extent that they. didn't know in what
direction the race was being run. and
they all turned around and ran the other
way. while my Henry kept backing into
the stretch and won = al