The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-20
FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN,

Sam Bernard is now in a position
where he can recall with complacency
the somewhat disastrous outcome of
lis first professional" appearance.
Il always thought / was going to be-
come an actor. and so when I was
years old and lived on the East Side in
New York. / thought l would give the
neighbOrs taste of our talent, FOR my
brother Dick also had aspirations. In
cidentally the plan was to part The
neighbors from some of their money.
Dick and / rugged up "A miniature
stage on the wOodpile in our back yard
and we got about twenty inquisitive
school friends into the auditorium
The price was ! cent, and those who did
not have pennies TO spend were about
70 be thrown out when Dick, who was
business manager as well as co-star,
| agreed TO let them in for five pins
apiece. The performance went forward
and the actors, at least. thought it was
great until some envious youngsters,
who couldn't get in because they had
neither pennies, nor pins, filled their
mouths with water and squirted il
/ through holes i'm the fence over the au-
| diepce. That broke up the show. Moth
er heard the noise and came out and
took a hand. Dick and / climbed the
! fence and got away with the gross re-
| ceipts, IL cents.
4 AFTER tnaI LICK ana i carried tllChelS
reciting i'm a Bowery basement. We
were so successful that it was finally
determined to put our names on a pro-
/ gram. The printer instead OF giving Us
our right names of Barnet spelled 1t
| BERNARD and Bernard we have called
| ourselves ever since.
From those basement days to the
distinction of starring under the man.
| agcment of Charles FrOhman was a
| hut ho Il
the experience of those early days"
| X X =
Shakespeare now stands forth as a
| prophet according TO Frank Wilstach,
/ the Ignatius DOnnelly of his day.
/ Nearly 300 years ago he foresaw the
Joint appearance of E. H. Sothern and
| Julia Marlowe in his plays! BY the
simplest arrangement of Ines in the
drama we read: "SalutaIions and greet.
ings to you all; Sothern and Marlowe."
| BY reading the first line and then by
| taking the first letter of each word OF
| each line and reading downward you
have this message from the bard:
| alutation and greeting to you Alias
o IT have / seen q timely parted ghost
| King Henry VI.
T remble and start at wasging Of straw
| King Richard Ill
! II is power went out IN such distractions.
| Antony and Cleopatra.
| Il re / could make thee open thy white
hand.--The Winters Tale.
r uled like a wandering planet. over me.
| king Henry VI.
n ever shame to hear what you have
nobly done.-Coriolanus
| A re sometimes like our Judgments blind.
! -Cymbeline.
! N or hath loves mind any judgment
! tastes.-AIidsummer Nights Dream.
| ID iscredit more in hiding of the fault
nv brain. more busy than the Iaboring
spider.-King Henry vi.
A well the fear OF harm, as harm APP
parent,-Richard III.
| r eman, a pnched thing; yea, a very
| trick.-The Winters Tale.
| l. ike or find fault; do as your pleasures
are.-Troilus and Cressi6a
O ur fortunes lie upon this jump.-An-
tony and Cleopatra.
w 18th soft. low tongue, and lowIy cOur-
tesy.-Taming OF the Sbrew
L experience is by Industry achieved.--'rwo
Gentlemen OF Verona.
Charles Darnton, who writes pieces
for the Evening World in New York
did not think much OF the performance
of "Pippa Passes" He wrote:
Even those worshipers who read
Browning on their knees must feel their
faith giving way to boredom as they SIT
through a dull, 'tallxy.' tiresome after
noon at the Majestic theatre, where
'Pippa Passes doesn't while the hours
away.
'Pip7a may pass-bUt never ~ III,