Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-18

MICKEY FINN SEES "OTELLO"
BY Ben Blow

hears de money jingle in your clothes
an sees you waving yellow backs
around dey tips de derby an reach
you a happy hand, but when you're
broke dey holler scat at you, so
fill your purse, reach out your mitt
an git de coin; dats what we're here
for an de mint is working over time
to fill de orders.
I couldn't sight de guy at all an
piped him for a crook an from de jump
had him sized UP right He had a
crouch against Ot'ello an made friends
wild him so dat he'd get a chance to
put de kibosh to him when de chance
blowed up I didn't like him none. A
rabbit had him beat to death for spunk
an after while he cooks scheme up
to put Ot'ello on de blink.
"He loves de skirt" he says. Hes
struck de limit an I'll pump him full
o. jealousy an let 'em fight it out"
And den he gets busy passing gossip
round, an gets his hammer out an
raps an raps till trouble comes out on
de stage an walks around an keeps on
gettin fat till all de works blows up.
A guy behind me says dat he don't
like de play becuz dey aint been any
body killed, but 1 soon puts him wise
dat dey surely is a goin' to be some
thin doin' before de bets is paid. Dey
is q guy called Casseo in de play dats
strictly to de wool an level as a floor.
He's kind o. right hand man to Ot'ello.
His name is Mike an like all Irish
he is Johnny when a scrap is showed
up to him. An Mike gets into trouble
wild a guy dat elbows him an puts him
down an out an frames up trouble
wit his boss an den de guy I'm leary
of gets him to get de lady to take up
his case an den he pumps Ot'ello full
an says his wife is stuck on Mike an
cops her handkerchief an says he got
it in Mikes room, an den Ot'ello gets
to thinkin' on de troubles dat he has
an goes clean dippy.
II loved her onct," he says, lookin'
up at me. IAN when / love her not de
fireworks will all go off at once" an
den he chases off de supes an thinks
it out an makes up his mind to kill
her.
De last act shows de lady in her bed,
an my, de lovely curls she has. One
of her arms is stickin' out an makes a
picture dat no artist could ever splash
on canvas if he tried week, an den
her husband comes in an anybody
lookin' at him could see dat he wuz
dippy to de limit, an den he kills her
wit a pillow, an de poor girl dies an
den Mrs. Chicago butts in an puts him
wise to the news dat her husband has
framed de thing off from de startin'
Dell 10 ue 1lnlSnln wire, an uen chicago
comes in an kills her an Ot'ello fixes
him, an den when de police has got
into de game, but after all de trains is
gone, Ot'ello takes a tumble to de
things he's done an takes his sythe
an stops hisself, an an O. dem goes
down and out.
1 heard de guy behind me kind O.
chol1in and I looked around.
81 hopes you like it now" I says
"Dis act looked like slaughter house
to me an if you amt got what you're
looxin for you ought to wait an see
DE Bowery at Midnight or Twelve
Murders in Ten Minutes by de Clock
"I got enough" he says, land den
some more. Dat guy dat cooked de
mess looked bad to me. Les you an
me go down an lay for him an beat
him into pulp for all de Williams dat I
ever see is in de infant class compared
to him.
But dey wuz one thing worries me.
One o. de supes had nice white pair
o. ladies' stockings on dat wuz clean
all right, but one of his calls wasn't on
straight and Travelled around his leg
three times