Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-21
SCOTTY MAKES
HIS STAGE DEBUT
DELIVERS SPEECH DURING ACT
AT GRAND
Appears for the Purpose Of Making an
Address In Midst of Bar Room
Scene of "Queen of the
Highway"

the Grand last night.
And he had a speaking part, too.
And he actually talked without a
tremor in his great big, husky voice.
Scotty always could talk.
Scotty's jackass wasn't there, though.
1t was in the midst of the thrilling
bar room scene in Queen of the
Highway" Who ever heard tell of. a
bar room on the highway before?
But the fact that Scotty was there
is sufficient for identification of the
locality.
But this one was right there just the
same, and Scotty, as usual, was the
center of attraction. And it wasn't
Rol Kings Hollenbeck bar either, and
Scotty didn't spend a cent. (Rol King
carries the roll now.)
AS the thrillingest thriller had been
auspiciously dumped upon the unsus-
recting portion of the public which
formed the audience at the Grand last
night, bing! The orchestra sprung a
leak or broke a drum stick or some
thing else happened to cause the sonor-
GUS peals to cease pealing and the
stage gave birth to Scotty's Coming
out" as a full f1edged footlighter Of
the seventy-second degree.
Mystery Appears
1t was Scotty all right. And as the
unidentified actor ceased murmuring
the bewildering phrases in descriptive
palaVer as to who Scotty is, the
Death Valley mystery stalked upon the
stage, crossed to the furthermost point
before the glaring lights, his great and
famous slouch hat in hand, wearing
the same overcoat that has done duty
cn all occasions from the oil-begrimed
Santa Fe engine cabs to the private
dining rooms of the Waldorf-Astoria,
and his red necktie which he paid
S100 for on his triumphal return from
the hair-raising, record-breaking,
damphool trip across the continent,
and after giving the startled audience
a chance to become convinced that he
had not combed his badly cropped
hair in a decade. swilled in several
hundred cubic inches of atmosphere
and said
I've got a pretty big contract with
Taylor for a play and L want to tell
you about it." Here he took another
hitch in his trousers, smiled that same
sweet smile which has been the beck
oning invitation to the thirsty gang of
to walk up and have one" and con-
tinued:
Ladies and gentlemen: 1 want you
all to listen" Just as if anybody
would dare to talk or do otherwise
when Scotty was talking. "I live in
Death Valley I've worked there
some time. 1 came to Los Angeles
some time ago and have thrown my
money to the birds" There must have
been several swallows or canaries in
the audience, as this last sentence
called forth long and hearty round
of applause.
FINALLY, the newspapers woke up
and began to take notice. They got
wise. I got a train and went to New
York. They tried to take my money
from me there, but got run for it,"
He didn't offer an explanation as to
why he had to go to New York to get
a run for his money, but the audience
knew without the explanation.
I've spent money right and left in
this town and L believe that if
wanted to borrow a dollar 1 couldn't
get it anywhere. That's what 1 think
would happen if 1 was broke"
No One ContradIcts Him
No one volunteered a loan nor at
tempted to contradict the statement
and Scotty continued: Now I've been
thinking this thing over and I've ar
ranged with Taylor to write me a play
that will show Death valley life as it
really is. I suggested to Taylor that
IL would be good thing to put on q
play about life there and we would
take II OH IIle ana SHOW as long
as the money and play lasted.
"Now, L don't want you to think I'm
foolish; not quite as bad as some Of
these newspapers make me out to be-
I've determined to do something to
show the people I am going to amount
to something. In future 1 am going
to be Mr. Scott, not Scotty, the freak
the spendthrift, the mark" And the
commotion which followed this utter
fhn fai, Ill
which seized several thirsty pals"
who were in the back row waiting for
SCotty to finish and get outside where
they could make a touch. This part
ing shot of Scotty's was a thunderbolt
to them and they accepted it as a per-
scnal insult.
There's the Santa Fe. 1 made
them millions. After L made my run
over their road and established the
time record for them at my own OK
pense and risk of my neck, their stock
went up one and one-half points in
Wall street. Well, 1 wanted to make
another run across the continent and
offered them $10,500 for a train. FL
nally, after much telegraphing back
and forth I found out that 1 couldn't
have the train.
"They offered me an ordinary special
for $1.50 a mile and when I accepted it.
they raised it to $165 a mile. l would
not be grated and they got frosty and
turned me down.
"Well, 1 might have been blufing
but they don't know it. 1 counted my
money out before them and they
wouldn't take it. Frosty? Well, they
wouldn't touch it at all. Now, what
do you think of that?" No one had a
think coming, evidently, as no one
spoke up. 1t passed all understanding
just why anybody should refuse to take
Scotty's money after it has been known
to be a free gift for several months.
Thirsts Move Out
Scotty gave vent to another smile
and gracefully bowed, thanked the au-
dience and left the stage. Several per-
petual thirsts moved out the door, but
Scotty fooled them by walking info
the box where Rol King was sitting
and occupied vacant chair close be-
side his financial manager and ad-
wiser.
Rol King thought the speech was
just the prescription, and his big smile
was beaming upon Scotty from the
moment he tripped upon the stage un-