The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-16


Bill DorEan had good many ideas
about dogs" said the man In the seooy
shooting coat. IAN the time he was ptee1-
| ing the spook hounds and working the orslh
hounds up TO their wonderful stage OF oe-
velopment he was making experimenUs'
He never got discouraged, neitneI'
| When the Astral Spirits Protective Union
| boyootted the spook hounds ana When
the brain hounds got 20 wise that ne oouion
hold 'em, he was more'n half staTteo on
his second marvellous eXperiment-tho
dramatic terriers.
sBlll got the idea one night when ne went
10 see a Uncle Toms Cabin show up 70
| Yonkers. When Liza began skpping aorOts
the cakes Of loo out como ave niggets
holding bloodhoupds by the collars Az
least they called EN- bloodhounos' OUT
they looked more 10 me like the ooraP'hgS
Of the Yonkers pound.
they trotted Rorost the stage with the
nigRers holding back on EN- and mahlng
like they was having hard time keoplnG
'em in. But anybody could zee u was al
a bluff
They amt no map or ginger TO that
exhibition aays Bill after the SHOW 70
Mrs. Dorean. what's the matter "1th
starting a breed OF dogs that can actF
They's millions in IT, says Bill siter
he'd studied on It q spell. That was always
the way with Bill. The more he thought
over one OF his ideas the more II groWed'
L bet we've got a thousand 'Uncle Tom
Cabin companies In this country. What
wouldn't they give for a pack OF dogs tha'
could really actT he says.
'Now you 60 slow says Mrs. Dorgan'
People was always telling Bill 70 60 slow
but the more you shut down the brakes
on him the worse ne got He went straight
home and brought his little English setter
Lady Dandeion into the house and studied
her.
sLady DAndshon wasn't what you'd call
an intelligent dog, though she was pretty
good 10 look at II you didn't carr for points
Rut che knowed q lot Of triclu, and the
more you laughed at her and Jolled mel
along the worse she cut UP,
shed come into the room and clint
into the balIys high chair and set there
dropping her tail through the hole; she
se. in the cane bottom aud fold her paws
and laugh with her tongue out, waiting iol
YOU to laugh back. And II you'd only
laugh back and clap your hands and tel
her she was q nice dog, Lady DandeiioI
would git right down and run through al
her tricks.
Fine for a starter says Bill. Fine
and fancy. But what 3 the main point about
actors? Imitation.
Lady Dandelion is strong for the glao
hand and great on public applause. Nov
II can get some more like her and some
dogs that Is good at initiating the dramatiS
tarriers IA started 4" ERys Bill.
But Mrs. Dorgan puts in her oar. She
says:
Bill, you're tryn' too much. II these
are going TO be actor dogs you've got te
breed for body as well as traits Of the intel
Ieck. Actors has got to be good looking
I don't see how you're going to have any
luck breeding for body as we'll as brains''
'Brainsf' says Bill. Who ever said II
=. took brains to act? What " ant is prinknes'
> and imitation. Here, Dandelionl and he
, nuts her back in the kennels.
so BIZ ups and negleOts his regular bust
ness again and goes to chasing canine
phenoms Pretty hard to get the kind h
. wanted. too. Lots Of dogs that was a. Vair
, as paacocks and learned tricks great hac
to be rejected because they wasn't gooc
4 looking enough
he gets ABOUT - uoNuAt JIMMY ehN
, starts his breeding. Along about the thir'
/, generation he begins TO get results.
There was the dog called W, H. sothern
for example. a handsome sort Of q pup. h
was Quick "a a cat and pretty a. picture
And the tricks he wouldn't learn II you
kind Of laughed at him and iollied hin
: along wasn't worth learning.
Mrs Sddons was fine big one will
u alwavra
which was why he named her that way
but the trick she couldn't learn in half a
hour wasn't worth learning.
, sContrariwlse, Joe Weber was a nacher
i horn clown dog. jest git him started oil
his foolishness and clap your hands ant
laugh. and he'd stick out his little rec
: tongue and breaths hard to himself-lik
= this. Hail Hahr-and make home brgh
for hull day.
? 1T was about this time that the brain
:; hounds got too smart for Bill and run away
: leaving him time TO put his hull attention
! on the dramatic terriers. In two genera
lions more he had a set Of wonders.
3 Tim about ready 20 turn her loose.
4 says Bill Come and ride in my auto, vii
you, Sam, when begin to realize
, -'Getting ready to unload 'em on tn
Uncle Toms Cabin peoplef says l.
o sBetter'n that says Bill Run up :
the town hall at White Plains next weeh
There's where we're going to try the dog
e on the dog he says mysterious like. w
hit Broadway next month
What In times the camel says !.
Keep it dark says Bill. We're goir
q to do Uncle Toms Cabin all alone-evsr
part took by one Of the dramatic terriersF
e He loosened up then and told me.
was going TO be one Of these here pantc
= mines. where they don't gay nothing bu
q only jest act. Only this show and othe
pantomines had points Of difference.