The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-27
FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN

when i was i'm Arizona last summer
used to read every week a little coun-
try paper whose editors metaphors
were an unfailing joy TO me-" declares
Ernest Lanson.
"Once / remember. this editor wrote
of contemporary;
Thus the black lie. issuing from his
base throat. becomes a boomerang i'm
his hand. and. hosting him by his own
petard, leaves him a marked man for
life
He said I'm an article on home life:
=" The faithful watch dog or the good
wife, standing at the door. welcomes
the master home with his honest
bark A"
The suspension of the free list at the
Garrick theatre on commercial princi-
ples-that is to say, the elimination of
the 'deadhead' '-calls to mind one of
the best anecdotes connected with ap-
pliCatiOns for passes, attributed TO
Charles Mathews during the time that
he managed Drury Lane theatre. Lon
don. In that disastrous period no one
had so much need of the deadhead, but
he sometimes capriciously took no no
tice of the applications for stalls A
friend whO had thus applied approached
him. Perhaps" said Mathews, "you
did not inclose a stamp with your en-
velope." Il did. said the othsy; 81 al
ways DO" We'll" said the debonnair
Charles, ''go on doing it, for they are
often useful"
Thomas Jefferson and a publishers
reader, according to the formers press
agent. met one day in New York
The talk turned 10 literature. and the
reader mentioned that a novel, after
thirteen reflections. had been accepted
by him and had gained for his house
nearly 500, 900.
"A mighty good book it is. too" said
the reader. "Have you read it?''
YES" said Mr.. jefferson.
well, what do you think OF it?"
There is only one thing to be said in
its favor" Mr.. Jefferson answered. "a
friend OF mine, during the Spanish
American war, carried it i'm his breast
pocket. and a ball ricocheted against
his ribs, but the book saved him. The
ball was unable to get beyond the
fourth chapter"
William Gillette has a high regard for
those who frequent and patronize thea
tres, for in recent interview he is
quoted as having said:
THE direction i'm which we look for
or disapproval is across the
public which by it's ap-
prevail or disapproval has made the
stage and drama what IL is from
day to day, from year to year.
and from century to century
We find that public honest and
straightforward with US always, ever
ready TO be moved by what is true and
lifelike and human-provided II be
made interesting-ever ready to reject
the false and artificial, even though it
be festooned with literary gems. Never,
with us, at least. is that public inten-
tionally cruel, but rather erring on the
side of kindness and charity toward our
many faults
Robert VI. Edwards says that if any
one doubts the southern negros appre-
citation OF Shakespeare let him sit i'm
box office OF any southern theatre when
seats are selling for "Othelio,s and
watch the "colored gallery reserves go.
On q recent tour, when Mr.. Edwards
was managing a prominent star play
ing "Othello" and Don Caesar"
dark-skinned wench approached the
ticket window, when he listened TO the
following conversation:
"Howdy, cap'n- Is 1t Don Caesar de
Bazam' what is de play tonight, or de
one whah de white, lady marries de
niggah r.
Being assured that it was the latter.
the dusky auntie grinned broadly in
satisfaction, and said: Two TO tn
gallery, please.
Among the props of the Robert