The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-14

his land, shouted in Hitchcock's ear:
"Farel"
with pleasure" answered the
comedian, giving the Knight of the
cash register a nickel.
Two blocks farther on other pas
sengers squeezed into the car and
again the conductor crushed his way
from the new ones and then. looked at
Hitchcock insinuatingiy. said: Fare,
I have already paid" said Hitch
cock.
HUH grunted the conductor as he
passed on, but his look was evidence
that he doubted whether or not the
comedian was right
By the time the miniOn OF the cor
poration next forced his way 10 the
front of the car FOrtietk street had
been reached. One fare was collected
and the deIiverer stood beside Hitch
cock, who sWayed to and fro on the
strap. The conductor still had his
doubts about having been ''faTed" by
Hitchcock, for, touching him on the
shoulder, he said
'S-a-ay, did I get your faTe?''
For a second Hitchcock looked dis
gusted. then slowly he delivered him
self Of the answer:
IT'S and odds on bet you got my
farei The company evidently didn't
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And while the passengers laughed
Hitch" left the car and sauntered
slowly to his hotel
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The actors know the stage door
tender, The theatre attaches know
him, and the ,TOhnnies know him. And
all Of these the doOrtender knows He
is the grand old bridgetender of the
theatre. In the current number OF the
Theatre Magazine Wells Hawks writes
OF him as follows:
''The man who tends the stage door
at a theatre may be old and decrepit,
but lie has lodged in every active
faculty of his antiquated being one
fixed understanding. and that is that
no one shall pass the door he guards.
Often so rigid is the Conscientious
Cerebus that ne has been known to
c0nscientiously refuse admission TO the
stage to the man who oWoned the
theatre, through the fact that he
knew him not by face, but only by his
name, printed upon the top sheet Of
the pay roll. In the we'll conducted
theatre of today IL is the rule that
only those whose business brings them
there shan be admitted Otter rules
may be broken. but this one stands
inyi0late- The stage manager Is
supreme here Even the manager of
the theatre bows 10 his rule in regard
20 the EpuuUcC OF thaT part or the
theatre back of The curtain.
Tt has come to be the custom that
the stage dOorkeepeF is an, old man.
He is either respondent over some
melancholy fact that If the tide had
turned another way he might have
been a successful manager or he IS
fun OF "reminiscences OF the old days
Of which he loves to talk. Day and
night throughout the season he guards
p spost, knowing and admitting
through his door only the members OF
the company and those other persons
he is absolutely sure have q right to
enter there. He is generally silent and
has no argument. If you are not en-
titled TO admission, there are no words
he simply shuts the door in ones
face Stage dOOFkeepers are quick TO
learn faces of the members q COM
pany playing at the theatre where
they guard the entrance to the stage.
The star il treated with the greatest
courteSy-ioor held open and fire.
quently hat in hand II is q tradi-
tionaf perquisite for the stage door
keeper 10 receive a generous gift from
this exalted parsonage on the last night
OF the ngazement. and there is TO
stage 6ocrkeeper who does not begin
10 pave the way for it from tie time OF
the first arrival Of the star to the last
night Of the week, Or the run, as the
case may be.
Few players ever omit this gift to
the man who guards the door. L is