The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-12
Metropolitan operahouse-

Metropolitan Operahouse-
There is a curious story concerning
9 Everybody Works tbut. Father,
which Lew Dockstader has made famil-
lar to all America, and which has been
sung as much as any comic song ever
written.
The song was written by Jean Havez,
who is Mr.. Dockstader's treasurer. he
made repeated efforts to secure ats pub
LEGATION by music houses, but they were
all. in vain None of the publishers
would consider it seriously. He car
| ried it in his trunkrhe used at the the
alter, and one evening before the show
began, while going thru his trunk, he
| happened to run across 1T.
He took it out and was about to tear
it up when Dockstader asked him what
it was. Havez handed it over to him
/ remarking that it was little trash he
| had created and was now about to de-
lstroy. . .bt.
Dockstader. said: "Hold on min
ute, will sing sin it Ir1 myself, t tonight;
While in New York during their en-
gagement in the month Of January,
/ Havez was seized with an inspiration
one night, born Of the enthusiasm
aroused by Everybody Works but
Father and wrote sequel or compan-
ion song called, "Uncle Has Quit Work,
Too. Mr.. Dockstader put the song on
at the beginning of his two weeks en-
gagement and it went with shout, and
he is singing it now at every perform
!: ance. "
While similar in character, the meas
ure and tone is different, and it is said
to be even funnier than the first song
: He will sing it here when his best min
! strels on earth appear at the Metropo1i
! tan for the half week opening tomor
} row night. :,
s HThe Heir to the Hoorah'' comes t.
s the Metropolitan theater for four per
i evening. It is announced as an Ameri
8 can comedy by Paul Armstrong, pro
s duced under the auspices. and persona
3 direction of the late Kirke La Shelle.
5 You, may see 1.-THE HeirN on an
: billboard in. town. He is sitting on tn
5 floor at his: mothers feet and ,playin
) with his blocks, the letters of whic
. happen to make the name Of the play
:. It was he that brought peace into. tn
i much divided household that owned tn
!. rich mine called the Z" Hoorah ''-divi6
F.. ed chiefly by. mistakes and interference
s of a mother-in-law. Well meaning, bu
+ laundering friends widen the gap, the
~ the. little heir bridges it. The scene
a mining town in the west; most {
O' Iut dIe WeStoTu, anu d CudFU
Is ing widow personifies a western woma
r, who has the open mind and the larg
IS spirit of her: people, in spite of h
e. training in an eastern college. Some
a. the characters are eastern and the
re speak up for their east in humorol
oe contrast to their western brethren.
TO There is a maiden aunt. who. havi1
been the nightmare, of the dreams
young miner until she meets him, b
comes the idol of his waking hou
when she confronts him as tall, bea
tiful girl just out of Vassar. There
self -opinionated British butler
bulk, and truculent, wiry, little J,
no valet, who puts him in his place
ms :jiu jitsu. There are miners who d
ne sire, to present the new born heir to t
10 Hoorah with a mine or ranch. in t
ry place of the conventional spoon or mu
Y and a bachelor uncle who promptly pl
al 4chases six thorobred cows when
ok gathers from the jolly, old doctor tn
Ute the. heir is likely to be raised as
nd !" bottle baby'' -: -
Id, There is a teoWppn er, who when
he dons his first evening clothes undersp1
ge test. declines to remove the spurs viii
ca, have been worn during his waking hot
le- for twenty years. - ~ -&zs:s--.@
We Alberta Gallatin will be seen at t
ely Metropolitan for three nights and 81
I'm urdav matinee, commencing Thursd
. evening, May "a, in 'Cousin Kate
Miss Gallatin s unusual beauty, gra
M full easy and zthoroly natural POI
ion fit the part, and she is said to ha
ity the support Of an excellent company