Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-04
N 'CULLOUGH MAKES
 HIT IN ST. LOUIS
Actor We'll Known in Douglas Tells Stories As We'll As
 Acts,

DOUGLAS, Sept S.-(Special)- Walter Mccullough. who opened here at vaudeville a few months ago, and after an engagement at Cananea, returned here for a few days, later going east is making good in St Louis. Incidentally, he is furnishing much good newspaper copy" in the Mound City. The Post-Dispatch says Of Mccullough:
 "A feature of the production is the acting of the new leading man. Wal ter Mccullough. who appears as Sar- tOry's husband of FrouFrOu. Since stock productions were inaugurated at the West End Heights no leading man has given a performance to equal that of Mir. Mccullough this week"
 Then 1t goes off with a half page Sunday story, illustrated with imagi- nary drawings of Mccullough, Clay McGonigall and a lot of other cow boys and brOncho busters. Here is what it says:
 We don't half appreciate the hum Orously adventurous spirit of player folk-they'n take all sorts of peril Ous chances and find something to laugh at in the very face of danger itself. That's because of their temper amental yOuthfulness-did you ever See an old-sOuled actor? Not in . thousand years!
 Walter Mccullough, the new lead ing man at West End Heights, comes direct from Fl PasO, Texas, where he was a manager-star of a stock com pany.
 Just before the close of his season he took his company to Cananea, in the Old Mexico state of Sonora. and there played the first engagement ev- CT played by an American theatrical company in that new but now world famous mining camp.
 Actors Play in a Cellar.
 I've played in a cellar, under a saloon says Mir. Mccullough. The owner of the saloon. a big Mexican named Antonio Fernandez, was also the proprietor of a theatre, the leader of the orchestra. the billposter and the "bouncer" He'd fight at the drop of a hat-and when he ordered an obstreperous greaser to ''vamOose" you bet they'd have to make tracks if they weren't out for real trouble.
 Tt seemed to me that I ought to make myself solid with the cowboys around Cananea, just to help the show along. so I camped with 'em during mosr of the three months We were there. I met Clay McGOnigall. the champion roper of the southwest and he took a great liking to me. thought I'd make a hit with him and the other cowboys by showing 'em I wasn't afraid to ride a bucking brOn cho.
 Gets a WaiI-Eyed Brute
 ""They gave me a wall-eyed brute that looked like he was asleep until he felt me in the saddle. Then he turned into a four-legged cyclone.
 "'Clay McGonigall had posted me bit. but you can't ride a wall-eyed broncho Cn tips! I though at first I'd been struck by lightning. Then it seemed to me I was the central fig ure in an earthquake.
 "'The next minute I would have sworn I was the front passenger in a head-on railroad collision. Buck? That broncho was the middle-weight champion of Mexico.
 But I held on all I knew how with my knees, and then by grabbing the horn of the saddle with both hands, and I remember getting sort of strangle-hold on the brOnchos mane-and all the time the cowboys were dancing around, yelling and laughing till the tears ran down their faces.
 "T was getting battered up worse than a man run over by coal train, but I stayed on the bronchO's back so much longer than I had expected that I began to think I'd win out when all of a sudden that wall-eyed horse indulged in his king-buck and I went up in the air.
 CT don't know how long I was up there, but when I came down some cowboys had roped the broncho to keep him from killing me on the ---e--.>d-az1d- affar- that was solid with every cowboy within forty miles of Cananea.
 "sThey used to crowd the house to see us play.
 "T got chummy witt the Mexican l judge of amusements in CaHanea, too. 1 It was his duty to see all shows and l close 'em up if they didn't make good l on their advance promises.
 Shut Up Bull Fight Once
 "T saw him do it once at bull fight. where a buffalo and a bull re- fused to fight He made the managers pay back s5000 to the disappointed au- dfence. I was billed to play ''Vtr- giniusr the next. so determined to | lay of from Hero"
 "'On the opening night I got the 1 judge of amusements on the stage l and sang a comic song. The old judge | was tickled almost to death-said 1t was the best show he ever saw"
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