Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-01
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dance turn. We had to borrow six dol
lars each to get to st. Louis. All the
people went down on the same train
and there was a wreck There was a
one man orchestra act, in which a man
by the name of Fordyce controlled a lot
of papler mache dummies. They put
on an extra car to carry the statues
and his car saved our lives. The en-
gine and baggage car went over the
embankment into the canyon. Lille
Laurel, the wife of John West, one of
tne most nigh class women in vaude-
vile at that time, was killed. but the
rest of us escaped without injury.
The dummies were found at the bot
tom OF the canyon, and they created
much excitement among the villagers
who came to see the wreck When they
saw all the paper men and women they
thought some joke was being played on
them. 1t was sorry sight. Uncle Sam
had his leg through the base drum and
the coon was embracing the Goddess OF
Liberty. We went on to St. Louis and
opened on scheduled time, but the man
with the dummies did not get them all
collected and at the theater until three
days later.
From that time on the fates seemed
to be with us, and at last we realized
| the heighth of years of ambition when
| we went back to San Francisco and
played at the Orpheum."
| All actors have their ups and down.
ana WIN Walling, the leading man at
the Belasco, is no exception to the rule.
during one of the periods when things
| were not looking very bright and the
show with which Waling was playing
! was not quite paying expenses, it was
the fortune of the company to play a
! one-night stand in Waterloo, Iowa. The
town, when the show reached it, had
| IIndnrnnnn he N
| In the railroad shops, which are the
support of the populace. Money. to
speak In measured terms, was not plen-
| tiful. The next morning after the per-
formance Walling was asked how large
the audience was.
Why he said drolly, 'I could lick
| all three of them"
Fred Cady, who his friends at the
Mason call the family man, has wired
for his wife and little girl to come to
California at once. They are at present
| in the Pennsylvania mountains
II kept getting letters from them, but
I could not stand 1t any longer, SO d
| just telegraphed them to come out
here" said Mr.. Cady. II am like a fish
out of water when have no home, and
when they come we will have a house at
one of the nearby beaches and 1 will
once more begin to live
Since the packing house expose Mr..
! Cady has been forced to enjoy his own
company at dinner, for he has turned
vegetarian and nothing more suggestive
of meat than corn flower outlets will he
| tolerate.
Bobby North will go from the ridic-
ulous to the sublime this week. He is
to play the part of Mary MacLean of
Butte, Montana. He will wear a
princess gown and promises to be a real
nice lady.
From some hitherto unknown place
Bobby North has unearthed a fine voice
which he used last week to the surprise
and pleasure of everyone. Mr.. North
ana Aaron HOFFMAN wrote that parody
on opera airs and there are bits from
thirty different operas, covering a regis
ter or two octaves. 1t Is one of the
best things of the kind I have ever
heard and it's always agreeable to dis
cover something you were not look
ing for
No one ever knows George Rice off
the stage as the tall Dutchman. In
the first place he is several inches
shorter in ordinary clothes. The other
night he was introduced to an old man
by Jim Morley. The man said he
wanted him to meet his wife, who al
ways said she would like to see a
comedian off the stage. Mr.. Rice was
| invited to meet her at supper at Levy's
and he accepted the invitation
You are not Mr.. Rice? 1 don't be-
lieve it. 1 thought he was an old man."
said the woman of the party with ILL
concealed surprise, and it was some
time before she could be convinced that
her husband was not playing joke on
| her.
George Best of the Harry James
burlesque company says he is the
original potato pairing kid. For twenty
six days Mr.. Best peeled three barrels
of potatoes every day. He went to
Australia with the Stanton opera COM
pany and was stranded there with other
brothers and sisters of the profession
for twentysix weeks. He finally
worked his way back to America from
Sydney by agreeing to pare all the
potatoes used every day during the
! voyage
Willy Zimmerman the Orpheum i'm.
personator of celebrated composers,
celebrated his fifty-frst birthday last
Thursday Willy is beginning to out
| grow his boyiSh front name, but he has
been known as Willy for the entire
thirty-six years he has been entertain
! ing, and saws he never will abandon
| the willy" which he has Travelled
under so long and so successfully. In
the thirty-siX years he has appeared at
private entertainments given by every
royal parsonage in Europe.
The suit which has been brought
against Kolb, Dill, JEFF ' hite, Mrs.
Hotchkss and others of the Hotchkiss
theater by Harry James, manager of
the Mason opera house, is rapidly as
suming the aspect of a joke. In the
event that James secures the injunction
and is given judgment against the
Hotchkiss people they threaten to make
a one-act burlesque of the trial. with
Dill as the judge and Kolb as the at
torney for the plaintiff.
Patrons of the Grand opera house in
future will miss the pleasant smile of
Bobby Mccall the little treasurer
His defalcation of last week was one Of
the greatest surprises Of all events in
theatrical circles here Bobby seemed
destined TO surprise people, however,
his marriage of last summer being a
complete surprise to everyone excepting