The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-08

tried hard to recover the coin. but II
was no use. There it lay in full view
out of reach.
After every means had been ex-
Hdusted the woman's ingenuity came
4 INTO play With bow and a nod she
| approached the beau ideal with a cane.
Mine for minute, eh?' she said
vice
"Ho the girl with the gum: Your
gum VIII assist me to recover my coin:
may 1 have ito
1t was the old story over again.
/ Them that has gits'-and she got the
/ gum She placed it on the end of
/ the cane, leaned over the narrow OPEN
ing. sighted the coin and jabbed it. The
nickel stuck, and out of the hole she
| drew it.
THE 'chappie' was all smiles. He
got Thanks for his service as she
returned the cane. leaving the gum
sticking to it and removing only the
COIN
ApropOs of American comedians I'm
London, Nat c. Goodwin comes to
/ mind, says the New York Mail This
/ is positively not GOodwin's lucky year
I Having failed with Beauty and the
! Barge and "WOlfvTIe" in this coun-
| try. he has met with equal disaster
with his revival of Henry Guy Garlic
4 toms "A Gilded Fool at the London
ShafteSbuTy 1t is written In London
dams that pay US occasional visits
/ Goodwin is among the less fortunate.
l 1t may be that mis- personality does not
appeal to us as il does to his own COun-
I trymen- One country meat Is an
other country's poison. and an actress
whom London regards as OF unique
charm recently in America failed to
make much impression 1t NAV also
be that the LOndoner, while fully ap-
preciating Mr. GOOdwin's abilities, ia
almost irresistibly reminded in turn Of
Arthur Roberts and Sir Charles Wynd-
ham, from whose voice Mr. GOOdwin's
is in some passages not TO be distin-
guished Again. plays which delight
America give little pleasure here and,
of course, vice versa
When Mr.. Goodwin was over here
four o. five years since he brought
with him Esmonds play When We
Were Twenty-One, which had created
a furOre in New York. Here it fell
comparatively fiat. We fear Mr. Good
win Will do no better with A Gilded
Fool produced on Saturday at the
Shaftesbury. IT dates back to 1892. and
years ago Mr.. Goodwin cd grea things
with it in the States. Its action was
then. we understand. located in New
York. Whatever New York thought
of the piece, it * written that even i'm
1892 London would have felt t TO be
long to bygOne age Its story strikes
one as hOary ana stricken with years
Mr. Goodwin has taken his medicine
and has revived Madeline E-ucette Ry-
ley's AN American Ctizen' at the
same theater.
Edwerd PepIe. author of The Prince
Chap" a pretty little domestic drama
that has won success, had the usual
struggla for recognition. The other
day he told of it,
1T may sound incredible. but it real
" tool me twelve years to get hear
ing: Believe me, have had d few ex-
periences. L -ecOI ret the first visit
made to New YOra from my home in
Richmond. Va. I had been reading
that the managers were on their knees
beseechlng the dramatists to give forth
librettOs. I had been writing from
early bOyhOOd. so 7 placed under my
and started for New York. In four of
fees bright Irish boys on the door told
me Immediately that the manager was
not in, and in the fifth I got a sur
prise I was taken right into the sane
tum sanctorum.
well said the great manager,
smiling, you are a dramatist-a IL
brettist, hey?'
." That is my allegation
He led me to the front window and
pointed to one of the large buildings
across the street-hfteen stories high,
believe-and said:
See all the windows in that build
ing: 1t IS whole block long, too.
Each one OF those windows is filed
with young fellow like you Go back
home, my boy. Good day
Mr. PEBBLES The Broken Rosary
was published as a book last year bv
John Lane, and he has written a play
for Mrs. Fisl1e and comic opera, THE
Sacred Cat" the music for which IS
being composed, and some of his short
er successful stories are Dog and I'm
derdOg" and "Mallet's Masterpiece"
#k#
ssrTha IaSt time T con- Co-.t
hardt-" said Mark Twain. was IN
Hartford I never think of that occa-
sion without recalling an amusing in
cident in connection with it.
My daughter. who lived with me
knew two French women, both of them
much reduced In circumstances. When
first they heard Of the coming of Bern
hardt, however, they began saving
pennies, and by the date oe the act
ress' appearance had the required $40.
Then, however thar consciencfs
/ began troubling them. They had
khcwn extreme poverty and IL seemed
/ to them little short OF criminal 10
sEend so large a sun AT the theatre
when II might buy bread for the needy
We have no right to purchase A lux
uTy.' said one of the two, with the
only money that We could afford TO
give TO the poor The other agreed,
though her heart ached at relinduish-
ing the promised treat. Let us do
right even IL it be hard she urged -
Mark Twain paused and his eyes
twinkled.
so they did" he continued at
length. 'They gave the $40 to cvo
Yankee old maids who resided on the
edge of the town, and the old maids in
vested it in two seats from which to
see Bernha rdt."
An amusing anecdote of Mime. Mod
ieska is told in HarDer's Weekly
"reminiscences of her experiences with
Senator H O. W. Tabor, the celebrated
Colorado millionaire politician and the
. builder Of The Tahnr nrera hns1se e.,