Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21
Stage Stories

IiCuNy ItltIbs WIN pays III IhS
Man on the Box" is telling this story
to prove that he didn't inherit, but ac-
quired his excellent memory:
At dinner one evening Freddy's
mamma said she would like to see the
play again.
mo objection" said Freddy, chew
ing his rare roast beef thirty-two times
IL la Horace Fletcher.
Whats the name of the man at the
door,"
Wilson"
You'd better write it down. l might
forget"
NO danger" Freddy reached for his
hat. Just think of Wilson high balls.
That's ALL"
That evening smiling woman with
u pleasant faced companion presented
her card to the doorkeeper and in
quired:
rs this Mr. Hunter?''
Nine Bernhardt probably took
many interesting impressions away
from New York, If she keeps scrap
book there will be found in it the COM
ment in verse of Wallace Irwin, fol-
lowing the dinner rendered her by Mr..
Hyde. Irwin wrote:
Sarah. great Sarah B.,
o, do you know the gent
And is it true as true that you
Have been and gone and went?
That you, the dramas pride
Have been both dined and tead and wined
BY Mr.. Hazen Hyde?
Divine Camille, pray, don't you feel
Remorsefu when you know
| The very bread on which you fed
Was Equitable dough?
And goodness sake. how you would quake
If told to give your views
a terse report, before the court
OF Prosecutor Hughes.
The leading man of the drama had
the floor. I'VE were rendering Under
the Polar Star in a little one-horse
town in Montana" he related land as
the opera house did not boast reg
ular staff of employees, we engaged a
young German farmer to shift the
scenery the night we played there.
Hans, as we called him, was hastily
| rehearsed in the art of shifting the big
ice cakes that were prominent in our
play, and above all he was warned to
keep quiet under all circumstances.
- No matter what happens, eau
toned the stage manager, don't you
speak out loud so the audience can
! hear YOU
Hans promised. and we thought no
more of him until the great ice scene.
Then, when you could have heard the
proVerbial pin drop. his fowsy head and
dripping, forid face suddenly popped
out from under a huge ice cake and he
beloved in voice that could be heard
Il block:
Tam such a shob. Here l vas NIT
all dis ice under, nearly suffocated init
| her heat | quit
And wriggling out from his cramped
quarters, he had the audacity TO strut
right out to the center of the stage
with perspiration running off him like
a shower bath"
Next week New York will have the
mild excitement of two plays running
at the same time each of which is the
| work of a minister who distinctly dis
approves of his brother playwright.
The Rev. John Snyder's piece LAS Ye
! SOW" has already arrived and seems
to have borne out its authors claim.
for it as a "sweet and simple domestic
| drama THE ClanSman" has yet to
| hc seen. But even it's own author an
nOunceS it as a pretty suenuos affair,
| with a strong bearing on race problems.
| Without having seen the play Mr..
/ Snyder saws he fears Mr.. Dixon, TO
judge by his books and public utter
ances, is deliberately raising Difficult
ties without the least effort to solve
/ them, and casting a pessimistic red
light upon the negro problem. The
two reverend gentlemen seem likely to
prove as different i'm their philosophers
as in their plays.
William Collier Will continue in "On
the Quiet" throughout the present sea-
son. His new play. The Heart of
Sparrow" which Charles Frohmau win
produce i'm Boston. will be presented
for only one week this season, return
ing after that week TO "On the Quiet
i In Sudermann's famous plays, "The
Fires of st. John" and "Magdu," Nance
/ O'Neil. the distinguished American
4 tragedienne has won the greatest tri-
umph of her career. In Australia.
where she recently played an extended
, engagement. Nance O'Nei was feted
on all sides and the tragic power OF
her acting was accorded unbounded
praise by press and public.
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