The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-01

7 Sothern. The play was not a success.
It only ran for FIVE weeks, but IL helped
me. 1 had a good part. that of a COM
/ edy actress, and the last week of the
! enga cement L was asked to go to MIR.
1 Daniel FT0hmans OCe,n / was there
/ ahead Of time, as happens with aspir-
! ing young women, but early as / was,
I Mr.. SOthern was there before me. There
/ had been an accident at the New Ro-
/ chelie and he was injured, so it hap
. pened that the first time I met Mr.
/ Sothern he was on crutches.
Mr.. Frohman introduced US, and,
/ turning to Mr.. Sothern, said. DO you
| think she's too tall?'
/ Stand up said Mr.. SOtheTu. I
obeyed, but / 'sCr0OChed' down as much
[ as l could without attracting atten-
| ton.
What is your height Mr.. Froh-
man asked.
There and then told them an awful
/ hb. My height is about FIVE feet six
inches, ana tald then-I don't remem-
/ Der what but ever so much less.
" Do you think she is too tall2' Mr.
I FTOhman asked again.
" No, think I can hold up my head
as high as that And for that answer
1 blessed Mr. Sothern.
But nay mind was taken up with arr
and an engagement. He seemed TO me
embodied art, l did not think of him
as a man until afteTwaTd.
Il was engaged as his leading wo-
man, But it was odd-Wasn't it2-and
most unpoetic, that the first time / saw
r. H he should be ON cTutChes. and
that the first time he sau me I should
tell him dreadful no about my
height
Mime Pa+ri is telling stories of her e--
periences during her concert tour of
this country. In Hot Springs, Ark,
while she was singing Home, Smeet
Home" an engine at the railway depot
close by was sounding its whistle loud
IS.
I'VE were not In the same key" said
Mime. Patti, land il was a trial 20
drown that locomotive. For all that
the audience was pleased. They shot
a negro in the leg. Poor fellow. How
they do dislike negroes down there.
This negro had climbed tree to look
in at a window while was singing
Eddie Foy says no one can imagine
how the railroads are run down in
Lower California unless he has been
there. Last summer Mr.. Foy was jour
neying down in that part of the COUn-
try and on the particular trip taken
as an example he was en- route up the
connect fer san Francisco. The train
had been running at about the rate of
a dray wagon for three hours, when
suddenly it whisked around a curve
and started down the grade like an eX-
press let loose.
Mr.. Foy tried to walk up the car and
was successfully dumped into an ell
derby womans lap and against the
lunch basket of a fair tourist before
he could reach the door. AS he did so
the conductor came lettering in.
Say, what's the natter asked Mr..
Fey Engine running away
'WeIl, rot 'ZaCtIy.' returned the Of
fetal steadying himself. but thar's a
sort of rotten bridge ahead. and we al
ways git cross it as quickly as possi-
BILE"
Kathryne N. Evans tell this story of
the first success made in FOrds thea
tire, Baltimore. in 1864, by her old
friend. Minnie Monk, whose recent
death is lamented:
Edwin Forrest was playing an en-
gagement there and the night in cues
ton the piece of Jack Cade' was i'm
the bill Mrs. J. r. Scott, who was 10
have played the Widow Cade. was
taken suddenly III. There was con-
sternation. for presumably no one was
up in the part, when Minnie. who was
only little out of the ballet pulled
the coat sleeve OF Papa Wright. who
was Forests stage manager, and said;
Papa, I can play the part
While Mr.. Wright smiled at the a.
sUTance OF the ballet girl. whom he had
known three years before at the VIM
ter Garden, New York. he spoke to Mr.
Forrest. The tFagedian, instead Of
laughing. and being ever ready to help
the ambitious, called Minnie 60 him
and said.
How do you know you can play the
paFt2"
Minnie said timidly: Because, sir,
have understudied the part
The remark 50 pleased Mr.. Forrest
that he rehearsed her, and at night she
played the part, Mr.. Forrest was so
delighted that at the fall Of the curtain,
before all the company, he compliment
ed her and said.
tious young lady. You deserve great
credit and you viii, / am sure, succeed
IN your chosen profession.
Francis Wilson. the comedian, has
recently added to his large and valu-
able lirary a collection of English tracts
and sermons Of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries.
These pamphlets are interesting on
account or the strange puEasEol0SA I'd
kind Of religious slang-which they re-
veal Their titles eXempIify this slang
well, and the following are few OF
them.
The Spiritual Mustard Pot to Make
the soul Sneeze with Devotion"
The Shutters Of Divine Love"
Crumbs Of Comfort Tor Hungry Ho-
seas"
biscuits Baked in the oven of Char
ity, Carefully Conserved for Chickens
Of the Church, SparTows of the Spirit,
and Sweet Swallows Of Salvation"
Ellen Terry was telling recently of
her FIRST appearance as Mamnlius. in
The Winters Tale" I'm 1856. at the
Princess theatre, London, where that
drama had a run. II played the part
for 102 nights consecutiveIy." the ac-
tress said. and YOU can imagine how
proud I was Of my little red and white
coat and carefully dressed golden locks /
/ had 20 wheel q little cart about tbs /