The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-20
The Star Refused to Go On Unless
He Was Refused Admission.
(St. Louis Globe-Democrat)


While they talked of what it takes 20
make sood show the man who laughs
said: ITS "A matter OF surroundings
It's the point Of view: The way Il
strikes you. The show which sticks in
your mind the longest and highest must
have been the best you ever saw or
heard The one which holds that SUI
preme place i'm my recollection l en-
counterei in little Iowa town. 1t was
q melodc;ma played by local anna
tours
More iconoclasm," g,oaneG the cri-
tic
1T was in the third Rois cam
paign.''' went on the man who laughs.
Il was coming down from Sioux City
to Council Bluffs and at a little juno
ton point / had TO lay over all night
/ When i got off the train the boy from
the little hotel. who had remembered
ne foc the two years since the second
Boies run. took my grip and asked:
/ Coin 60 the show tonight?
Sure said /. If there's enc here
( What is it?'
Home talent said ne, and I've
/ got the boys part in it,
I we all hurried through supper that
/ night for everybody was going. The
play was TO be presented i'm an empty
/ storercom three doors down the little
street. The proprietor left me i'm the Of
\ flee smoking q cigar, with the assur-
! 3nCe ttat ! need nave no fear Of leaV-
\ ing the office untenanted when I got
/ ready TO go. Half an hour later / pre-
scented myself at that place i'm the front
of tine store cUrtained off from the rear,
wherc a handsome old man sat count
! ing tickets and cash. / laid down the
price. and said ! wanted to 90 IN.
The old gentleman blushed and
showed signs of embarrassment Eek.
cuSc me, sir he said but are yoJ
from 81. Louise
Il had TO admit it,
g" This is very moTtifvinS TO me.
said he, rising from his chair anC
/, walking nervously around il. but 1 ar
compelled 20 refuse you adusittance'
What have / done?' / asked, whel
my establishment had worn awt:y
CROUCH to permit articulation
; " It's the fault Of that boy at th'
hotel he answered. He is taking
para in the play, and a. soon as ne go
behind the curtain he told all of then
that a newspaper man from ST Louis
, on the way to Omaha, would be her
to see it. The young lady who is tax
= ing the leading part, and who is sensi
TIVE and fears criticism, has takel
! stage fright, and will not pl&y if yol
are in the audience. AS she know
everybody else who is here. il will b
impossible to deceive her, and I know
she Will Quit if YOU go in. / am yer.
sorry. sir
Don't mention H., | said, seein
. his evident distress. and, making
heroic effort TO maintain my graVit
; because of 1t. 7 felt that some of m
! buttons We're at a dangerous tension
! because of the suppressed mirth beat
! ing like a sea at high tide against IA
: ribs. 1t Is perhaps natural fOr tn
young lady TO feel so. but it is hard 81
! me. I can't go TO bed till the hot,
! folks get home
1T is dreadful.' said the old gentle
: man in dull little town like this to
, man not used tC it He gave me
, look of compassion, which touched m
= TO the point of saying that ] would civ
: il up, when a light broke upon his trou
> bled cCuntenance, and L saw that j
hal a plan. Taking up The chair