The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-15
RFNFFIT FOR GUY LIVINGSTON
Friends of the Genial
Amateur TO Rally
Round Him.

one, perhaps, out yea an 49,
when he sent me an intimation that h
wished to talk about the prospects ant
the possible advance sales 1 was no
entirely taken by surprise. But Wher
ne threw his eighty-seven pounds OF
avoirdupois into a chair at my table II
the restaurant I was discounted for
expected he would make his wishes
known at another time
But actors are not altogether respon-
sibIe: even good amateurs will do fun
nv things at times when they are ex-
pected to be serious. This was one OF
them. I learned a moment after he
broke the ice nothing but ice, that the
deep lines which furrowed his brow
were of no significance. They did not
signify care so much as they showed
evidence of deep thought as to results.
All men of means show them. Rookie
teller has them, but to disguise his true
financial position he has them touched
out on all negatives made of him.
But this is dispersion.
Livingston seemed to have dressed
for this occasion for he had on the
same trousers he wore last Sunday and
the Sunday before. They were the
genuine moneyback sort with the quail
fly woven in and if asked to criticise
the cut would say the off one was too
long. But at ninety-nine cents leg
and money back one must be gener-
Gus.
MY friends are determined he re-
marked by way of leading up to the
subject that 1 shall have the fruits
of my stage labors in Hawaii handed
me in a bunch. You have heard of
the professional bridesmaid who went
often to the altar but never became
bride? Well. that's the sort of a benefit
man I have been here. I have always
come to the front on benefit nights and
now the boys want to show me how it
feels to be on the long end of good
thing.
lone of the newspapers here said the
other day that / was 'abashed.'
guess, maybe, it was all right but I
have searched through three premium
dictionaries looking for a synonym that
will make the word clear to me in this
connection and failed to find. 1 have
bunch that it was an easy way of
saying something unpleasant so it
wouldn't hurt quite so much. Were
you ever broker
Always replied, "but never
abashed to an extent that I failed to
call spade a spade instead of a bloody
bIeedin' shovel
r 1.I-a h. ,oI
was because wondered if it bore any
relation to the condition in which
geniuses sometimes find themselves.
I'm not a genius now, at least not al
together, though I frequently notice
symptoms. Papa used to say I was a
genius but as the remark was usually |
followed by lamming I did not seem
to banker much for that sort of thing.
mother always said I would be Booth |
Or a Hamlet or something of the kind |
that required genius The folks could
Mt keep me away from the theaters
and I worked the check end to the
gallery for all it would stand.
.'Once / went on in the old California |
,heater and carried a spear but it did |
not bring me any great honors outside
IF my own circle of friends who conn
;tituted the Shakespeare Dramatic Ag-l
sregation of the third ward. That gave
ne standing with the club because
was the only one that had brushed up
against a real actor and knew when to
sneak off. One time the club gave |
Othello and I picked out the leading
part for myself; I guess if I hadn't
picked some other fellow would have
and before the show was over I wished
he had, Desdi. was a peach. She
weighed a hundred and eighty to my
and when she came to die
she mighty near changed the scene for
stepped on her ingrowing toe nail
when l reached for sofa pillow in
he smother scene. 1t looked like
wenty-three for me for a minute; she
worked in the cannery and her father
vas a moulder so she came from good
tock. Nobody but Jeffries was in her
lass that night and when I stopped
I was out of breath and the
how was over. heard afterward that
was real lively from the front during
me innings. The club went out of
business then and for time / just let
ny genius instincts have chance toI
row. You've noticed it have you
ot?"
I assured him that / had not OBJ
erved any bumps which could be dag
osed as that malady, or even symp-
ON as symptoms go these days. And
then I said this 1 felt regretful. I re-
rendered sitting opposite Knocky at
banquet on one occasion an occasion
till remembered in the metropolis of
ne Island of Hawaii, and l dreaded
he chunks of sarcasm and other things
hich might be thrown al me as they
ere on that night several years ago
Y the diminutive Knocky and the
bust Shanghai Brooks of pleasant
emory.
You understand. of course" remark /
| the gentleman who is to be benefit l
I. :'acting is soIfE@ ming more than
ending shoes or driving an express.
requires closer study of the condi-
ons, one must know just when to
ng the pointed arrow at the man in
ont and just when to hand out jolly.
verybody cannot do this and get I
oney at the box office two successivei
lesdays, Tuesday is the day the ghost |
aIks on the mainland and I got so
ed TO it that I sometimes go TO the p