The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-01

up Broadway, When the. same youiS
man approached him with another
man.
Are you Chauncey olcott?" he
asked.
Yes, I am; and l want to say that
when 1 told you little while ago that
was not 1 didn't know you had
bet on it
We'll, I'll be bowed" exclaimed the
stranger. That's two bets I've lost on
you this afternoon. l just bet Jim
here a five spot that you weren't
Chauncey Olcott. and l thought | had
cinch," and-he turned and walked
dejectedly away;
Miss Terry. in the latest chapter of
herr autobiography, in the November
McClure's, takes a fling at Mrs Grun-
dy's rumor that she and Mrs. Kendall
were jealous of each other. Speaking
of her great triumph as Portia, she
says:
Not for years afterward did l find
out that | was not the first choice
for Portia. The Bancrofts had tried
the Kendals first, with the idea of
making d double engagement; but the
negotiations failed. Perhaps the rival
~ between Mrs. Kendall and me might
have become of more significance had
she appeared as Portia at the Prince of
Wales and preferred Shakespeare to
domestic comedy In after years she
played Rosalind (Oh, Madge, ] do owe
you one for that. / never did. and
quite recently acted with me in Merry
Wives of Windsor but the best of her
fame will always be associated with
such plays as The Squire, The Iron
master Lady Clancarty. and many
more. When she played with me in
Shakespeare she laughingly challenged
me 10 come and play with her in a
modern piece, domestic play, and l
said Done" but it has not been done
yet. ] found her wonderful to act
with. No other English actress has
such extraordinary skill. OF course,
people have said we are jealous of each
other. Ellen Terry Acts with Lifelong
Enemy proclaimed an American
newspaper in five-inch type when we
played together as Mistress Page and
Mistress Ford in Mr.. Trees coronation
production of Merry Wives of Wind
sOr.' But the enmity did not seem to
worry us as much as the newspaper
man over the Atlantic had represented.
1T was during this engagement in
1902 that a young actor who was
watching us coming in at the stage
door at His Majesty's one day is re-
ported to have. said: Look at Mr.
j Ice DtlN cen Ills Two StdIS.
." You mean Ancient Lights answer
ed the witty actress to whom the re-
mark was made.
How ever. 'e'er in our ashes burn our
wOnted fires or, to descend from the
sublime to the ridiculous, and from the
poetry of Gray to the pantomme gag
of DruTy Lane and Herbert Campbell
Better be a good old has-been than a
never Wds-er.'"
An ITishman who had just united
with the Catholic church in a small
town, was careless enough to let the
priest catch him coming out of saloon
with jug under his arm says
ChaunCey OlcOtt. THE priest waited
for him to come by and said:
e Pat, what is it you have in that
Jug?
60 Whisky. sor,' answered Pat.
" Whom does it belong TOP asked the
good man.
8 To me and me brodder Moike, sor,
Well. say, Pat. pour yours out, and
be a good man.
- can't. sOT; mines on the bottom
answered Pat"
William J. Kelly has recently annex
ed this one:
She had been to her first party and
had INDUCED not wisely but too well
in delicacies that caused internal woe
when partaken of to excess.
why, Geraldine" exclaimed the
anxious mother as she welcomed the
return of her offspring, how white
you are looking: do you feel sick?"
"Oh, no." was the reply. 4 did feel
sick after the ice cream. but I un-
swallowed myself and 1 feel all rig;.t
now"
X x x
zone of the most interesting Incl
dents in a theatrical way that l have
witnessed in London was at Mr.. Hicks
theatre the other afternoon" writes q
New York Herald correspondent I
had just left the office, which is lii
rectly over the theatre and noticed d
crowd of probably 500 people standing
around the stage door; so / went to the
stage deorkeeper and asked him what
the trouble was. Nothing. sir" he
replied. I'm just having tea" Inves-
| LEGATION showed that the crowd was
waiting to see Miss Doris Keane. who
is playing her original part of Rachel
in The HypOcrites." come out after