Arizona republican., 1906-12-04
AN EVENING OF FUN
 ON A FUNNY EvtNIN6
John kendriek Bangs An Unusual sssr Entertained a Large Audieass .. ss
 Unusually Forbiddins Night

It was a regular Bangs sSsal1S- Like his books which are 90 eOSse>oE place and formal on the outsisi<. Ass within the covers sparkling and s~ta- tillating with captivating Eit zEa Aa- nor and puns that are really p<vrsAz- sible and not atrOcious. so Ssz the Presbyterian church last night. Hso.ssay without and surrounded eg np5dy streets and fOggy atmosphere. sus within. well filled with an sgSiszce of good natured people. anxiOss le zS~ and hear the real John keE4EScs Bangs. the man who makes fsa sJ,h- out hurting anybOdy's feslinsz sAc builds up an acceptable philO@opAy Ss good humor out of things tAza have no philosophy in them
 There is only one John kssdricE Bangs that the world knOEs about and he doesn't come to PhOeaix efe<n. If he cannot increase his speed EcA-d- ule over the rate of travel iatIEs2ted last night. he will never get back Ae-s again and those Phoenix people rho believed it was a part of theiF duty in life to see him sometime. dtd yell to attend last nights entsFtafannsns. It was not the Bangs stories the people wanted so much as to knoz the psE- sonality of the man for his writings are more or less familiar te all vAs read and Mir. Bangs personally Is rsxy ! interesting. Unlike some huaso<assA, MT. Bangs has a funny streak En hisa and seems to enjoy being funny Asss- self. instead of being cold and aazsssS. engaged in making jokes mechanically that have to be funny just bseasze they are put together right He 6 talI and will propOrtioned. wears . Eos.s humored smile as he speaks and has . very pleasant voice that makes Afz readings distinctly heard ali over sAs auditorium, without seeming sffort. And like most of the professional As-
 morists he good naturedly makes hRr.- self the burden bearer. the chasrsansd
 victim of the funmaking a lsTss part
 of the time. Notwithstanding kls close cropped mustaehe and threstsne.d hair
 famine. there is enough gray in evil dence to show that he has =t Least.
 reached an age of maturity and can recite his boarding house tales with the grace of a man who speaks from
 an experience that time in iss fixhs
 has robbed of malice and sossrssd 10 2 tender recollection
 After some most entertaislna intro ductory remarks he launched iAso the
 fruitful storehouse of his s4s wrH-
 ngs and presented many ehsses eits
 that kept the audience n afs,cse eOz-
 tinuous laughter. Though many had
 read his Coffee and Repo-sse." she
 House Boat on the Styx- and ssksy os his productions. the Selectiosss srosn those volumes when spoken t0 tn
 manner of the mind that coa<stTst
 them took on a new interest sEa sss
 added delight There were 6ils of
 verse as we'll as prose and story ielIins
 and it was all enjoyable. the c3sxinE piece being a somewhat lengthy secry
 he alleged had been written fer p1s- 1 lication but was never printed Ay hirH Q | self and probably never WOulA As- IL
 described a days visit with President
 Roosevelt in all its particularly anu
 detail. a visit which he never had. but 1 which lacked nothing by tha, fact. for
 he told Of all the things that migh- | have happened If he had had the visit And had they happened. he never 1 would have been here to tell about it ,,r.- ,,,,,-- ..,-.1