The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-10
FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN

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Johnson in the lover of the Cir"
played by Blanche Bates in David Be
lascos THE Girl of the Golden West"
He related this anecdOte the other day
in the Evening Sun:
In the beginning it is only fair to
say that Robert HiIliard tells this
story on himself:
THE other morning he dropped into
one of the best known florist shops on
Broadway in order to send some roses
TO his mother who was dangerously iii
at EnglewOOd, \. J. Just as he entered
the shop the proprietor rushed forward
and shook hands effusively. oh, AIr.
HiHiaTd, I'm so glad to see you. I saw
you act in The Girl of the Golden
West" the other night
" Yes. Mr.. F'Ieischmann,' replied Hill
lard expectantly.
" Well, sir was the answer. I think
that man Frank keenan, is one of the
greatest actors I ever saw Is that
SOP remarked Mr.. billiard: and then
aGded most genially: Mr.. Fleisch
mann, might I use your telephone a
mOment2' Why. certainly, Mr.. Hill
lard, with pleasure
"CIUtching the receiver upon the
cashiers desk Mr.. HiIliard at the top
of his voice shouted to Central Give
me ThOTley 's-T-h-O-r-l-e-y-'s-
know: ThOrley. the florist of New York.
An. is that you. Mr. ThOrley? Well,
this is HilIiaTd-BOb billiard. the act
or. I want you to send at once one of
your biggest boxes Of American Beau
ties to my mothers address at Engle-
wood.
Dropping the receiver, HilIiard
turned laughing TO confront Mr..
Fleischmann, furious with rage. Really
MI. HilIiard,' he gasped, this is a little
too much! To come right into my own
shop and borrow my phone to call up
that-Well. really He gasped again,
but further words failed him, for at
that moment HiIIiard hit him a heavy
slap. It's all right. old man. We're
even. You can realize now how it feels
yourself
Ambition was the undoing of Julius
Caesar. Napoleon BonapaTte. John
Alexander DOwie and of many other
great men, 1t promises to be the un-
doing also of Adele Ritchie. the blonde
prima donna appearing in The Social
Whirl" 1t the Casino theateT. New
York. The ambition that threatens
Miss Richie is not her own; that is
what makes the thing more cruel. It
is the ambition of Sybilla Grant, chO-
rus girl employed in the same musical
play.
Miss Grant understudies Miss Ritch-
10 IIllS IledlS IudL next TIME MISS
Ritchie is i'll Miss Grant will play her
part and have an opportunity of prop
erly impressing the management Nat
urally. Miss Grant does not pray for
the good health of Miss Ritchie, but
her interest in that young wOman's
well being became active only recently.
1t began with nightly inquiries as 70
how the actress felt. Next it took the
form Of advice that Miss Ritchie stay
70 1rrs coll -Sr,
ing in damp weather. LatterIy, Miss
Grant has looked into the prima don
mas plans for horseback rides and au-
tOmobile drives. Miss Richie has Civ
en- up eating candy sent to her by any
one except the closest friends, and is
thinking of procuring a body guard
4 know now how to sympathize with
the car Of Russia" she said the 9th
er night. Il feel like the head of an
absolute monarchy I=~self."
One of Chauncey Olcott's acquain-
tances asked him the other day if liv-
ing were expensive in Paris.
Paris is, perhaps, cheaper than Chi
CagO." said Mr.. Olcott. You can get
cheap things in Paris-cheap rooms,
cheap dinneTs-bUt they won't satisfy
you as more expensive things would"
"A friend Of mine dined with young
artist in the Latin quarter at a famous
table d'hote.
The host, at the end of the dinner,
said:
Pretty good dinner for francs,
eh?'
First rate returned my friend.
Let's have another
Harry BuIger, who plays King Blue
Jay with Pixley & Luder's OrnithOlOgi-
cal opera, Woodland" tells the fol-
lowing story at the expense Of one Of
his professional friends who is a large
man, weighing between $50 and 400
pounds. While on a tour some years
ago they both stopped at the same
hotel and their rooms adjOined. Dur
ing the night Bulger was awakened by
a tremendous crash in the adjacent
apartment. Getting UP. he rushed to
the intervening door and saw that the
bed had collapsed and his friend on
the floor.
What is the matter H? Is there
anything I can do for yOu?" he in
qUired.
Nothing is the matter" answered
H. "bVt if I don't answer the call
for breakfast in the morning you might
tell the hOtelkeeper to look for me in
the cellar"
De Wolf Hopper, whose two success
full engagements IL New York are to
be followed by a third at the Majestic
theater, has joined the movement led
by Brander Matthews and Andrew
Carnegie for the simplificatiOn of En-
glish. Mr.. Hopper declares that this
great and good work should not end
in the adoption of phonetic spelling.
Why not simplify our grammar as
well?' inquiries Mr.. Hopper. Why,
for example, use one pronOun to refer
to man, another to refer to a woman
and a third TO refer to an object? Why
has one word to mean the cry of a
cat and another 10 mean the cry of
Walrus2 Personally, | look forward
TO the time when it shall be perfectly
proper to say that a herd of babies set
up a plaintiVe snort, or that a flock
Of elephants grOwled in unison"
The Shubert press agent is authority
for a story concerning a member of
THE Earl and the Girl company
ho Il m,