The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-29

GlIlzen PlerTe.
 When Robert Hilliard was playing ''The Mummy at the Garden Theatre about 10 years ago, his press agent conceived the idea that real mummy might advertise the farce called ''The Mummy Obviously he couldn't get real mummy, so he had Joe Physioc, the senic artist. get up a fake mummy.
 Tt was planted nicely in box, and exposed to view in the lobby of the Garden Theatre. But somehow or other the public interest was not ma terially increased by the exhibit. So the press agent decided to have the mummy stolen.
 He made, all arrangements, hired an expressman to steal the mummy, and then notified the police. Then he seth items to the papers. Only one paper printed anything about the story, and that one said:
 "A mummy was stolen from the Garden Theatre yesterday. It used to be diamonds. Now it is mummies.'
 "A play called Lord of the Hills was done at the Fourteenth Street Theatre about dozen years ago, and I was the general publicity promoter. One scene in the play showed a real fox hunt, with the players in red coats, a few of them on horseback, dashing across the stage. T decided that a real fox hunt in Fourteenth Street in the middle of the shopping period might be worth col umn of two in some newspapers and incidentally advertise the play. We used no real foxes in the theatre, so went up to Harlem and for $25 l bought a fine looking fox from an ani- mai dealer.
 Then I had to hire couple of hounds. to chase the lfox.y Finally my preparations were complete, and I asked some of my newspaper ac- quaintances to have a couple of drinks in the cafe across the stree about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. ..*'-.+ . 1 ''The property man had the fox in a box, at one dGor of the theatre, right in front of the lobby. At the other door, few feet away, was the stage Etcarpenter holding the two dogs, wait ! ing for the word. The street was fill ed with shopers. got the boys up in front of the saloon, and then waved my handkerchief as signal. s.~ They let the fox out first: The i timid beast came as far as the front of the lobby and hesitated. No one noticed him. The property man threw piece of wood at him to scare him. He dashed out into the street.
 Tn moment the dogs were after | him. But right next to the theatre lat that time, down Fourteenth Street, there was a large stable. The fox 1 started away from Sixth Avenue and saw the stable. +5.s..
 Like a streak of lightning the fox disappeared through the stable door The stupid, unintelligent animal didn't run 20 feet before he found refuge in the stable, and so far as I know the tdogs never found him. ,, @..s.... l q was across the street, and when I saw the dogs let loose Icried out to the reporters that fox had got loose, s,,.
 "They looked at me with suspicion. There was absolutely no excitement. ! No women tainted, the dogs didn't | howl and the fox didn't run. I saw they. didn't believe me, so stopped talking. '@.:
 That story was never printed. $. I told the property man he could have the fox if he could catch it. I never heard what became of it..
 Henry Miller spoiled beautiful foIy +Iak hna IlIo in honor by an enterprising press. agent One day Miller received a letter from this individual, offering for a sum of $100 to burglarize the actors house in Harlem and let MT. Miller pose as a hero by appearing at a rear window and firing three or four shots in the air. r l Meanwhile the press agent, acting as the burglar, would sprinkle. some beef blood on fence and escape by the alley. The idea was that the pe- lice would believe that Miller wounded the burglar, and this would mean
 columns about the actors and his bray cry.
 "But Miller shied at the story. He asked the young man to call on him. and the young man came. Mean while Miller had a couple of reporters concealed behind a curtain, Then Miller persuaded the press agent to give him some instances of his sue
 cess in getting publicity for stars.
 "The press agent fell into the trap
 He told how he an associate had pulled off a great horse fake for a melodrama of the Academy of Music in which three horses responded to ar alarm of fire. The story was that one of the horses, hearing a real alarm ot fire, and being an ex-fire horse, ha6
 dashed through an open door into tho alleyway and had broken it's nack tThe press agent proudly stated that he |had bought a dead horse, and ha6 lplaced it in the alley to fool the news Ipapers.
 "'Now, MT. Miller,' said he, for $1ot we'll make you the hero of a great shooting scrape in Harlem
 "'But Miller wisely declined, The
 press agen sorrowfully departed. Int lnext day he was amazed to read z
 story which Miller himself had given to the papers, telling of syndicate for newspapers fakes to boom actors.
 ''The two reporters behind the cur tain told just what they had heard
 and Miller secured without cost Q
 much longer story than he would have | secured by merely shooting at 2