The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-13

e responsible financially, the landlose
I asked:
e Have you any children, MADAME
l Yes replied the lady. L have
seven. sir. but they are all in the
chnrchyard
with a look of deep sympathy the
! landlord signed the lease In a few
! days the lady. her husband and seven
children moved in
THE indignant landlord called at
once and asked the lady what she
meant by telling him that her children
; were not living.
Oh, dear me- she sweetly re-
+ sDcnded. what a dreadful idea / said
they were all i'm the churchyard.
often send them over there 10 play. and
the little dears just happened to be
there the day l came TO look at the
apartment
In the old days when more license
? prevailed among audiences than at
; present, actors frequently were called
| upon To save themselves by their wit
Many performer. the butt Of a rude
jest from some disgruntled spectator.
has emerged triumphant through
quick bit of repartee which turned the
quip against his tormentor
James O'Neil was victimized during
a performance of Monte Cristo" at
the Boston theatre. Boston. After the
delivery OF the celebrated line. THE
world is mine!" he was shocked to hear
a youngster inquire, "Whatn you take
for South BOstOn?"
John Lindsay, once much liked i'm the
west, had cabbage thrown at him one
afternoon at a rendering OF The No
Die Outcast.' He took the vegetable
in one hand while he stilled the angry
audience With the other. Never mind.
ne said, Some poor fellows lost his
head; that's ALL
The best aneodote of the lot is told
on the late Thomas Keene. Playing
Richard Ill" he came upon the mimic
battlefield exclaiming: "A horse! A
horse! My kingdom for a horsev'
; Wont jackass do?' inquired flip
pant young man sitting in the orches-
= ira. Yes" answered Keene quietly.
! Come up
David Montgomery stepped into a
New York bank last Monday to cash
Charles Dillingham's check for the CO.
median's share of the preceding weeks
profits of THE Red Mill" the new
Montgomery and Stone hit, now at the
Knickerbocker theatre
You'll have TO be identified" said !,
the cashier.
Montgomery directed the teller's at
. tention to portrait poster of himself
on dead wall opposite.
Il guess that1l do" said the cash
Ter.
! When Lillian Mortimer was a slip OF
a girl she saw Nine. Januschek play
Lady Macbeth" IL was the first piece
of tragic acting Miss Mortimer had
ever beheld, and it fired her with an
ambition 10 become a great tragedienne
she tried TO obtain an Introduction to
Januschek, but was unsuccessful. The
following spring she wrote the famous
star, asking for a position in her COM
pany and, TO make dOubly sure that
, the letter would reach the proper per-
) son. she addressed it: Nine. Janu-
schek. Actress" Day after day she
waited, but no answer came
The following season Januschek
again visited Miss Mortimer's home.
and the girl determined TO make a bold
strike for an engagement-she would
call upon the tragedienne at her hotel
With her heart knocking against her
ribs, she waited IN the parlor while a
bell boy took her name to Nine. Janu-
scheK. Presently the boy returned. The
madam would see Miss Mortimer i'm her
room. Trembling, the young girl fol-
lowed the boy, ne" eyes big with eXjlta-
ton and fear. Her heart almost stood
still when the Polish woman's wonder
full voice babe her enter. Januschek
was alone seated in a chair by the
window.
est down." she commanded, pointing
to u seat directly ina front of her.
Miss Mortimer obeyed.
So. exclaimed the actress, you are
Miss Mortimer"
Yes"
DE young LADY what wrote me a let
ter last season"
eagerly.
And (rising in her chair and point
ing her finger sternly at her guest.
| while her voice rang with outraged
pride and scorn) addressed it Nine.
Januschek, Actress
Yes" faltered the now thoroughly
fIiChtened girl.
How dare you do such a thingr
Don't you know dot was an INSULT II
you mad been writing 10 Edwin BOOTH,
would You have pOOt actor after the
name as If he were common PLAYER?
Den. why should you have done il to
me? IL it had been artiste-yes. dot
would nave been right But to call me.
| Nine. Januschek. Actress and the.
great traSedienne strobe up and down
the room. her eye flashing while little.
Miss Mortimer covered in her chair andi
/ tried to stammer out an apology For
/ i've rilnutes the enraSed tragic queenl
let loose the w,lirlwind OF her resent
ment. Then. evidently feeling that She,
! mad vindicated her reputation as AM
'artiste." she accepted Miss Mortimer's,
abject apology.
= =
! Wren Frank Daniels and the "Serg-
cant Brue" company arrived at Paw
| tucket en- route from Fall River to-
! Worcester a local sOngwriter boarded
the train and buttOnholing the come
dian, asked permission to read to him,
two new ditties for possible use at some
/ future time. Daniels listened to the
songs, but didn't like them. and the,
man left the car. Just as the train was
about TO full out the song writer very
much distressed, reappeared.
I've lost my parcel-the one con-
tanning the songs" he said to the come
dian.