The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-11
JOHNL.IN MONOLOGUE
He Speaks Piece in Evening
Clothes at Matinee.
THEN sPARS THREE ROUNDS
In Telling Of the Famous Fighter
Trials and TriBuIatiOns I'm aud Cat
of the Ring, His Manager Says sui
Iivan's Neck Now Measures TWEEN
ty-foar Inches-Is Well Received.

From the Sew YORK Sun.
Mr. John Lawrence sullivan. who per
hans even more than Harvard University
has placed the city OF Boston securely on
all the leading high school aliases, is
turning EN- away this week at Hurtig &
Seamon's Harlem Music Han as the
storm center Of Bob Manchester's Night
Everything New But the Title.
With a pronounced Harvard accent on his
as MIR. Sullivan is monolosuing, and do
ing three rounds at the erd of the bur
Iesque and a matinee every day.
A glance over the big audience yester-
day afternoon made one think that Har-
lem housewives must be having hard
time 10 keep the hired girl at home
this week. All around the ceiling also
was a fringe of absorbed admirers that
suggested that Harlem grocerymen and
butchers have a great many delivery
boys and drivers whose srandmothers
are being buried And when Mr.. Sulll-
van appeared during the middle OF the
afternoon. faultlessly arrayed In evening
clothes. the welcome he received showed
beyond doubt that his dramatic art
has reached even greater depths of the
human heart than that of Mr.. Chauncey
Olcott
Mr.. Sullivan showed his versatility yes
terday afternoon. not only as racon-
teur. but he recited all about the gen
tleness and the tenderness of good
womau's love in a voice as manly and
deep throated as feeding time at Bos-
tocks. An hour later he stepped upon
the sanded stage with Mr.. Harry Peter
son of the Polo Athletic Club. and with
all his old time dignifed nonchalance, Mr..
Sullivan gave Mr.. Peterson several care
less slams on the map that made the
bass fiddler tune up all along the line
again.
Real Funny Comedians.
Everybody was there especially TO see
the star. OF course, but in the meantime
there were several other good things on
the bill IN fact the opening piece.
''Whirl-I-Giggle," in which appears the
entire company-mostly girls-has more
comedians in il than the Senate, and they
are all on the stage ut the same time
It's a scream. When Herman Winkel,
for instance. says Mack. a void 70 the
wise is sufficient" Anhauser Bush re-
marks with a delectable German accent,
a who'd to the wise is "a suspicioHess,
ehg' and then Mack breaks i'm with,
Who'd you say IS goin' fishin when
this has been going on for half hour
the ushers have 10 80 down the aisles
armed with screWdrivers TO fasten the
seats 20 the floor again.
The 'Whirl-I-GiggIe" has a simple plot
Herman and Anhauscr hit Waltzingham
insolvency. better known as Mack. with
an inflated bladder as the curtain rises,
and so the three are Joined by a girl
named Hanna Held. and all sit down TO
play poker Mack loses all his money,
because no matter what cards he holds
Anhauser and Herman will steal more
cards from the deck. Even when he does
hold a good hand and says that he viii
see IL. Auhauser holds his cards alOft
in the most ludicroUs way and says, III
raise it" and then Herman remarks,
amid screams of Harlem laughter. I'll
take it, and picks up the money. Her
man held a royal slush three times and
got away with 90, even though Mack
expOstulated by saying, Don't think be-
cuz I'm a damn fool I'm an Oirishman.
This suggested 20 Maude Hadams,
Blanche Fisle, Edna Way. and Hanna
Held-au these names undoubtedly take
offs on we'll known actresses-to come
out i'm and sing about
I've Ioaf,d SO long in q marble yard
That J have marble heart.
accompanied by a neat chorus wearing
red. green. pink. yellow. black, and white
costumes.
some Make-beIievc Soldiers.
Anhauscr was saying, right after this,
that he was going to buy a bottle OF chet-
chup for the girls, but Hanna Held said
she preferred wine. There was no wine.
Hanna accepted the inevitable and de-
clared in a straightforward. honest tone.
Then we want whisky" And so
troop of soldiers came upon the stage
wearing the new regulation uniform OF
the United States army, pink tights and
blue silk straight front fatigue jackets
spangIed with cut glass. The captain
Of the regiment sang,
How we used to dread
Daddys old woodshcd.
What a Tam spot had for that.
Mr. Sullivan was the GROWING feature
of the olio that followed "Whirl-GiggIe"
He was led up to by Stewart and Ray
mOnd in a new and novel musical nov
city, during which either Stewart or
Raymond played the "Suwanee River" on
the violin so beautiful that one with eyes
closed could actually see the glorious
stream lighted by the moon and the still
ness broken only by the rhythmic notes
Of a steamboat with a fiat paddle wheel
whacking the everlasting waters. Then
there were trained monkeys and black
and white team. one Of whom told the
other that he knew his head was burn
ing because he could smell wood burn
ing, not to mention numerous other side
splitting remarks. And then the house
quieted as Mr. Frank Hail. who is man
ager for Mr.. Sullivan. stepped to the
foots to prepare the way for the coming
OF the star.
With flashes of eloquence and a large
diamond Mr.. Hall told of the trials
and tribulations of the great fighter, and
that his neck now measures twenty-four
inches The sufferings undergone by Mr..
Sullivan when he was pinched in France
after one night and had to stay pinched
i'm darkest prisons was beyond human
comprehension. And the way the burn
ing sun peeled his back during an al
fresco engagement with a Mr. Jake Kill
rain was awful. But MI Sullivan didn't
fight with gloves, as is done now, but
with the bare knuckles, "as God intended
one should And he kept the belt in
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