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

He'd nirod bdNm DOOM JoneA Who'a
what they call q dramatic reader, to stand
behind the stage and read OF the words
The dogs was going TO come out on II,
stage and do the acting.
sBnl had studied quite a while before he
picked 'Unole Toms Cabin He thought
some about Camille with Nine. Rachel
what was q little, soft haired white dog.
in the leading part. But he thought he d
try Uncle Toms Cabin first, because
everybody knows 1t.
sCourBe, that's only a starter says Bill.
Nov, there's a dog over there I'm training
for the leading part In "Zaza.' She's a
disRrace 70 the kennels, but she's 60. tenn
pertinent, and she looks the part, now don't
shei II Bill Dorgan don't have q monopoly
on the Sunday supplements after we STRIKE
Broadway / don't know dogs says Bill.
well, hah Of White Plains was in the town
hall, and l eat with Bill in the authors
box. He had q speech all wrote out which
be was going 10 talk Oh between the second
and third acts. when they got TO calling for
author. OF course be wasn't the author
Of the show, but he was the author Of the
great new scheme, which come TO the same
thing.
Ie" DOOkaLhu6It Nnhb was q me- uk
dog, more Newfoundland than anything
alse, played Uncle Tom. Topsy was one
Of the little black clown dogs, third genera
ton from Joe Weber.
Bob billiard was the kennel name Of
the one that played Simon Legree. He
| had a fine big bark, but he was always
scrapping at reheaTsals, which had caused
Bill all kinds Of trouble. W. H. Crane,
what was more Scotch terrier than any.
thing else except greyhound, was Lawyer
! Marks.
And Nine. Rachel, whom they'd picked
! TO play Camille before Bill switched
! his plans, was Little Era. Bill was awful
| proud Of her Said that she was gong
to be the biggest hit Of his kennels.
We'll, the lights went down and the eur
tain come up, and the show started Oh
! with half a dozen supe dogs rollin' cotton
and the White Plains male quartette siI ging
behind the scenes. The effect was great.
| Those White Plains people was that aston
ished you could hear a pin drop.
! And then in comes Lew Docks ader
! playing Uncle Tom aud Madame Rachel as
Lials Eva, They sets down on bench
jest like people and that dramatic reader
in the little box behind Uncle Toms oibin
| begun to talk Of the words Of the show,
Uncle Tom, tell me about Heaven
says he, in a kind Of little girl voice.
And when be said that. LitIe Era raised
her front paws the way she'd been taught
to do, and Uncle Tom slipped his forepaw
over her shoulder.
The effect was something grand. !
sneaked look at Bill. He was setting there
with his arms folded across his best Sunday
cutaway coat looking like George Wash
ington crossing the Delaware.
Mrs. Dorgan was crying, she was that
happy. And the audience just rose UP
and roSred, it applauded that hard.
well, sir, that applause done the business.
It's astonishing what happened next
For Jest as soon as the applause oied
down SOS you could hear anything, there
was an awful lot OF growing In the wings
Not loud growing and barking. but low
growls, the kind a dog makes when he
means business.
And all Of a sudden. Bob billiard come
jumping through the air and caught Lev
Dockstader by the throat and over they
rolled. In jest about minute, it rained
dogs.
The hull company come rushing on tn
stage Nell Gwynne, that was playing
supe that night, went straight for Madam
Rachel, and what she didn't do 20 her We sn'
much. In another second forty dramatic
terriers was having It out in full view OF tn,
audience.
Everybody likes a dog fight, and tht
audience. that took It for part Of the sh oN
was as pleased az anything until ~ Ei
Booth Jones, that dramatic reader,l 80
ratified and busted out Of his cage an
tried TO make a sneak.
Noticing this and hguring that be-
come In for part Of the applause, n IL
dozen Of them terriers got out Of the b9 1ci
and come at him. They cut him OF ron
the wings and he lost his head and hut lie
straight over the footlights with 4 ne
K Hackett and Robert Taber hangi1 /
his coat tails and Frederick Ward IN m
to get at his calves, and Louis James 4h
Forbes Robertson and Zaza nipping for an
place they could get hold.
Edwin Booth Jones took tumble II IN
centre aisle, and rolled over into the udl
enos. Then the stage got too small for 30
billiard and Lew Dookstader, and 'he
rolled after them and laid in the aisle an
Ct and az and At,
The people begun 10 scream and rusl 10
the doors. II the side Of the White ? ain
town hall hadn't busted open with the rus
ofpeople, they'd a been one Of them tn a'T
horrors you read about.
THE town constable and the soene III
ers and volunteers from the audience 70
in and tried 10 pound 'em apart. For no,
five minutes that the-ayter was al o''
and growls and whacks.
They pried EN- apart AZ last 'Am'
Rachel was pretty near done for. sod b
Hiliard had chewed great HUNKS ~ 2
Lew Dockstader. The first canire I no'
Toms Cabin company was buste
1T was this way, as Bill DorEan erpl' ine
Il 70 me. He'd bred them dog =" Np
20 long that they was jest line ne &C on
Only he hadn't bred In enough brain-ho IN
sos they'd have sense and self oontn ,l'
when they Sc another dog hol ON
centre stage, Citing all the apphus >
was more than purfeshional Jealousy oul
stand. IL was a thing Bill never hg' AN
on until he got EN- before an audience II,
sYou never could do nothing With "
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