The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-02


Referring to his London trim. Dan
sald; 1t was great sport, and I'll give
you my word that I sprung stuff on
the English audiences that made me
feel like hiding my head-but il went.
/ believe that a man could 20 to Lon
don and read selections from an old
Farmers Almanac of 1853 and make d
hit Take this, for instance:
meal 7.N7EV9
: Why?' says the chorus girl feeder.
Because say. you won't find it,
Well, they laughed at that in New
York night after night until 1 was
ashamed to pass a bathhouse. When
I went to London I was a little afraid
OF It, but they howledrat it. Every
night they screamed when I sprang
1t, and the interval. between the finish
OF the joke and the sound OF the ap-
pause was infinitesimai."
Augustus Thomas says he never
makes speech or hears of the pre-
pared extemDoraneous address of the
profession that he doesn't think of the
time Charles Hoyt made a speech at
the "Old Lambs club in Chicago. 1t
was a very impressive occasion to
Hoyt, not only because there were
many prominent actors at the table
but there were actresses as well, among
them his wife. Charles was very
happy with his wife says Mr.. Thomas,
but he was very much in. awe Of her.
She could say pretty sharp things and
clever things. too, and never let an oc-
casion go by, merely for the conven-
tionalittes and feelings OF others. That
night he was the second speaker, as
remember Il, and he was about as
scared as any one would be. He arose
very quickly. and started out like a
well primed picnic orator. Ladies and
gentlemen, I feel honored, I'm sure, by
this request of the POSTMASTER. But
It is so unexpected I really had no time
10 prepare "a I really had no time
to PREPARE And 1c he stopped
Every one felt sorry for him, but Mrs.
Boyt seemed in no way disturbed.
When she noticed his predicament she
turned toward him suddenly and called
out:
Why. Charley, you did it perfectly
this morning
That was a pretty hard one. but it
saved the day Every one laughed,
Charley included. and by the time
membered his extemporaneous re-
marks
SINCE Heinrich Conried has come in
to prominence as an impresario he has
been granted considerable space in the
newspapers of the country. And out
Of the inquiry there have come several
anecdotes of more or less interest
1t is told that at a dress rehearsal of
'Parsifal' a book reviewer said of
him:
4 know rich stock broker who
thinks he can write verse. This man
had Conried to dinner one night, and
after dinner he was so inhospitable as
to read aloud to his guest a long poem
called Alcohol Conried listened
silently, and he continued silent after
the reading was done.
( g sWeH?' said the stock broker.
/ Well? Pretty good. eh2'
Pretty good the other murmured
in a cold voice. Ut -sr
I'd like to print this with my name
signed to it, the stock broker went on,
+ but the trouble is, don't want it
known among my business friends that
I am a poet
lis that any reason.z said Mr.. Con-
I reid. why you should hesitate about
signing the thing?' =" s
For actors. to, taker-+heir1 parts ser
iously and to aim at a high degree of
realism is the rule I'M a certain in
stance the player, when undertaking
Othello could not get into the right
spirit of his character unless he black
ed himself all over. Frequently this
absorption in the veracities' Of the oc-
CASTOR happens with members Of the
taudience.
4 An illustration comes from the west,
where they grow everything wonderful
except wonderful prevaricators- The
STORY runs that Hamlet" was the
play. In the gallery two small news
boys were watching with breathless
interest The last act was drawing
Ito a close. The duel almost dragged
the boys from their chairs. Before
their eyes the Queen was poisoned
Laertes killed, the King killed. Ham
let killed. On the final tragedy the
curtain started down The audience
was spell bound. In the gallery sound
ed q clatter and crash as one of the
boys bolted for the door, Come on
.JifnmvI'' he shouted back to his pal
Hustle upi Dey'n be extras out on
dis