The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-04
His FIRST AND LAST SKIT
Fred Lennox Tells How and Why
George AIDE Wrote Playlet
for Him.

Fred LennOX, the comedian who in
terprets the leading role in Georg,
| AIDES sketch, "On His Uppers," at the
Orpheum this week, is an old-timt
/ friend of George AIDE; in fact, the play.
let was written specially for him. %
want to tell you" he exclaimed last
| evening, as he struggled with collar
! button in his dressing room at the
1 theatre, that prosperity has moi
changed George one bit. He is the
same boy I knew him to be when we
| met in Chicago in the old newspaper
| days. am not stretching q point when
l say that George AIDE today is getting
an income Of $4,000 a week from royal
| ties on his plays, comic operas and
Dooks-and that is going some for a
| young man.
mo, George will never write another
| skit. ON His Uppers' is his first and
last. The fact is that he is making too
much out Of his plays to fool away any
time on short stuff. Do you blame him
when Frohman pays him 10 per cent
right along?
This is the first time I have ap-
peared in vaudeville, and It was
Georges sketch which did it. Before l
TOOK this up [ played the role Of the
stage manager in Peggy From Paris
For nineteen years have been playing
III CkJCA chLAN anu LluSlCcti COIneuY sue
cesses. In those days I was a great
hand to play the horses. Two years
ago George AIDE took me to task about
my weakness. Fred he said. 4 am
afraid that you viii never own a horse
OF your own until you get a play of
your own It was in the Holland
House in New York that he said this.
and right there and then we sat down
ana talked the thing over. The out
come was that we met again at Branch.
IND, where AIDE has his farm, and there
the pIayiet was turned out Talking
about that farm: George has put a. lot
OF money in that place and now it
brings him in $1,000 year from the
stock he breeds and the crops he
raises.'
Mr.. Lennox went on to tell about
George AIDE in the old days when he
was already beginning to forge to the
'front.' with his Fables in Slang" As
the weekly checks rolled in he soon had
more money on his hands than he knew
what to do with. Then it was that he
commenced to send his weekly remit
tances to his father for the old man
TO take care Of for him - When the
weekly draft began to rise around $500
Mr.. Ade, ST., commenced to get uneasy
Finally he could stand it no Ionger-he
| OK the train TO Chicago and looked up
his son. Eventually he Informed his
son that he felt sure that he could not
be making that fortune honestly. and
had come TO see him to try and per-
sJade him from going on the downward
path.
This is the eighth city IN which ION
His Uppers" has been presented. In
talking regarding his experiences on
Monday night Mr.. LennOx said: "Of
course you VIII say that 1t is all CUFF
and tell the same thing everywhere I
GO but want to tell you that Salt
Lake audiences are the best have an
peared before when it comes to catch
ing on to AIDES slang and responding to
his hits. I got off the train from Den
yer travel-sOre and tired. and remarked
to my wife this is about the limit for
happy New Year day but when 7 got
on to the stage and raised a laugh from
the start I said, there's something
worth living for after ALL The only
piece Of AIDE sarcasm which did not
catch on was that: He saw a three
headed alligator and fell down a shaft
and the next day they told me I was
worth half a million guess. how
ever thy saw It. but mining is a great
feature here and a man doesn't smile
when you hit him with a club