The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-20

sound, coupled with a muffied cockney accent and now and then a lisp that caused the good English proposition
 wv wisn so to s'a De aeliverea tsd, a as WY: ana M he was wedding" to the audience. If an American humorist carried such a marvel of voice about with him, he would turn 1t to good account just as Bill Yves bald head was the greatest support to his fun. Think of Mark
 Twain with such a voice.
 The auditor had to shuttle around in
 his seat and give his most rapt atten- ton to ascertain what Mir. Jerome was talking about. At intervals he was so indistinct and so vague as to make pointless as an abstruse problem in Greek to primary student. The au- dience soon learned that the impedi- ment in the speech of MT. Jerome made of an "'R" or a "T.' If his blessings in heaven depended upon his pronouncing these letters, he would be in sad plight.
 troduction of the 'humorists by Phares Coleman, who made brief and thoughtful allusion to the value of hu- nor in literature
 Mr Jerome first appeared. His was a conversational talk or mono logue. He first spoke of the efforts of modern women to be artificially beau tiful and the humor of the thing typi- caliy English, appeared to please the women nightly. Then he branched off into advice as to what not to do while visiting Germany and here he was more happy in his English satire upon the Kaiser's people His bur lesquo of two women shoppers was the best thing he did because the fun of 1t was not concealed and was couse- quently more American. The conclud- ing number of his first part was "A Dream" which like all of Mir. Jerome's writings, was beautiful fin it's dlction This hit dnll-ad hnWptyar and the point to the thing was brought down from the period of Goldsmith or Smollett.
 As he retired MT. Jerome was
 Then MT. Loomis. sure-enough sol emn faced Solomon, came on. With his ugly, serious face, his gangling walk, his bent shoulders. he looked hand and he had undoubtedly come to preach sermon. full minute he stood his features rigid. his face stol- i'd. The audience laugt ed outright. seven" he announced in a raucous voice that filled the house. as he open ed the book. The audience screamed. Ss %ss arst scFfaming1y 1nan6gny funny fairy told in Irish brogue and this man Loomis injects more real fun into the Irish brogue than any Of the actors The story was entitled '"rhe Poor Was Mad" All of his readings were from his own works. They included "Poe's | Raven in the Elevator" "Maneuver- ings of Minerva" The Gusher," and ed in the high class magazines.
 The audience gave Mr. Loomis an reception and he respond ed to the applause by giving additional readings. He bowed time and again but he did not smile. MT. Looms is too clever to smile.
 The entertainment was concluded by MT. Jerome with readings from his own works.
 The humorists will go to Atlanta this morning.
 MT. Jerome is accompanied by Mrs. Jerome, a sweet-faced little English woman and this is their first trip to America Wearing straw turban, q white shirt waist of sheer silk. brown boa and a black skirt, Mrs Jerome sat alone on a back seat in the parquet circle, and seemed to get her share of enjoyment out of the lecture.
 This is MT. Loomis's first trip this far South, and he says he has enjoyed the tour very much. He did not look like he enjoyed anything but being
 1T wanted to be a newspaper report er," he said, sadly and wistfully, but. never could get place. have done some space work on the newspapers. he added bitterly, but the city edi- tors would never give me regular assignment.
 And so having failed to get berth as a newspaper reporter. MT. Loomis is compelled to sell his maunderings to Century, The Saturday Evening Post, the Ladies' Home Journal and other such periodicals for 10 cents a word This Is a hard world. No wonder MT. Loomis is sad
 Both MT Jerome and MT. Loomis eX- pressed regret that they failed to see more of Montgomery. Perhaps this is English American humor. It has been used before, too.