The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1906-12-01
GIN SUFFERING CUBA"
Kentucky Paper That Believes in
Honest Dramatic Criticism.
Now York Telegraph. }


f'We had a salary list of $3.50, and the
band got $780, said the character man.
"Do l need to say any more 1t was
another case OF giving the whole show
on the street. We stole the buzz saw
from Blue Jeans and had a very queer
explosion to close the second act. Well,
Ill tell you what kind of piece it was.
When we started out we called it BE
tween Two Lives. That didn't seem to
be hot enough, so the trombone player,
who was the ready money of the outfit,
changed the title to The Sweet and
Sunny South That's when we struck
south from Missouri. The week after
the Maine blew up we changed the title
again and called the piece 'In Suffering
Cuba. You may gather some idea Of
the play when [ tell you that one title
fit it just as well as another. Talk about
using Alabama paper! We had Han
Ions 'Superba' and Ringlings' circus.
"I'n say this much for the manager
He gave a street show that caught them.
But the perfOrmance-oh-a-h! You
know what I've seen and helped to do.
Well, this went ahead of anything. The
snare drummer played leads. Fierce
l don't know why they ever let us get
out of some of those towns. Here, |
want to show you something, l take it
that you have read unfayorable notices,
gentlemen, but / would like to submit
to you this-the limit. From Ken
lucky paper in town where we stood
'em up, mind you. The same kind of
business all along the hne-only two
losing weeks"
He took from a card case a we'll worn
clipping and handed it to the comedian,
who read aloud:
Not since the freshet carried away
the Webster dam and flooded all the
Easements in our fair little city has
there been such a catastrophe as that
which overlook Goo helpless men, women
and children at the opera house last
evening. BY means of fair promises
and glittering street parade the boss
confidence man Of the universe sue
ceeded in getting together a goodly and
deluded portion of our populace to wit
ness the performance of a play which
he was pleased to call ain Suffering
Cuba. If Cuba ever suffered half as
much as the miserable people who
watched the efforts of this troupe of
hungry transformers she is entitled TO
all the sympathy she can get. This
play was evidently written by hope
less maniac on one of his off days. If
our office boy couldn't write a better
drama any day before breakfast, we
wouldn't have him around. Not for
getting for a moment the consideration
and courtesy which are due the opposite
sex, we feel impelled to remark that the
ladies of the aggregation could find con-
genial employment in shooting biscuits
at junction hotel. AS for the men
who lend their feeble efforts to illumine
with the hight of sanity the impenetra-
BILE mystery of the idiotic plot, we doubt
if there is one who has sufficient intel
lectual caliber to go into field and drop
potatoes. Doubtless the whole herd of
mediocres was captured in the hazel
brush somewhere. 1t is impossible to
conceive that they are drawing salaries.
Why should they be paid when the
poorhouses are full of the victims of
paresis, all willing to work for their
board and lodging? We haye had SIN
Suffering Cuba, and we have lived
through it because we were robust.
I Now let us try to forget it. To-day the
opera house is being fumigated. The
troupe went out on cattle train early
this morning.
"a very neat piece of work." said the
comedian. .sDid you have the nerve to
give another show after you read that ?''
"Did We? AS soon as We got that
notice, we added new line on all our
bills: Endorsed by press and pulpit .
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