Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-10

mates hero being himself southerner. Upon
the occasion referred to the record could not
be found. He interviewed his German servant
with the following result
'smutze, my freund up the road. you know
smutze, yes?'
Yes"
well he come in here day und he
tramp right the record und it go smash.
Got. I could kill him. Smutze. he own
poultry farm so I say you gfe me two ducks
for the recorder" and as the actor looked
askance the German added:
I've haf the recorder for dinner"
Vernon H. Smith. a St Paul poet. rhapso-
dies follows anent Rose Stahl in THE
Chorus Lady,:
II amt much ON romantic plays.
An dramas not line.
An when 1t comes to oper-ee.
oh! say, I'm may behind.
/ kind of like de burlesque shows
Wild lots of funny junk.
An see the goils dance on dere toes.
De strait 1egit' is punk,
An so when Bill Malone. me pal,
Who works for L. N. Scott,
A-pastin' bills. hands me pass
For Stahl. says: Nit, not
I amt a-goin' to fill me
Chuck full of soft-boiled con.
Just slip transportation
For de Star. kid, an you're on
But Bill says: One de square, old pal,
Dis shows de goods. you betl
An so 1 gets Stepladder Lie,
An goes to de Met.
oh, geei You talk about playl
never seen 1t beat
Dat show, 1t had been hypnotized
l never left seat
Between de acts, to dust me t'roat
An neder ddi me Lie.
We Just sat dere and rubbered
While Lie sighs an sighs an sighs
We understood de whole blamed ting.
Rose, she spelled real dope.
Dose parquet dubs dey laffed to split.
Dey fought it joke
To hear dat Stahl goil ladle out
Some real United States.
Says Lze L What's eatin' 'em.
Dose mayonnaose- Drained skates?'
Take 1t from me- dat Rosie Stahl
She's dere wild tuneful chimes.
She'd make most any ginny fal
With just a few high signs.
You can't slip her citron, pal;
She's wise, oh hi. she's wise:
Dat goes always wild me. you bet,
An wild Stepladder Lize."
Someone has figured out just what Charles
Klein's play, 'The Lion and the Mouse"
would have been called had 1t been written by
another playwright The suggested titles GER
tainly ingenious They are:
''She Told the Truth-But WhyT'-George
Bernard Shaw.
THE Capitalist and the Darling Harry B.
Smith
Facing His Millions "-Theodore Kremer
THE Girl of the Moment "-George Broad
hurst.
Graft ".-David Belasco.
1.-THE Persistency of Shirley. y."-Clyde Fitch.
New York Augustus Thomas.
Shirley, the Fretty Stenographer."-Owen
Davis.
Capital uered."-Upton Sinclair.
THE Disturbers Henry Arthur Jones.
"a Regular Giri'-George Nj. Cohan.
Fellow Passengers. William C. DeMille.
Robert Edeson. appearing in Classmates |
says that spade isn't always spade in |
Boston, and illustrates it with this:
1t a quick lunch restaurant: Coffee an |
sinkers," said the stranger to the waiter.
Beg pardon. SIR said the latter "but I |
fail to grasp the intricaces of your nomencla- |
ture."
You know what coffee is?"
''Yes. SIR
We'll, sinkers doughnuts."
The waiter smiled frostly
beg pardon, sir' he said ''but in this es-
Lablishment we always allude to them as sub |
It is mans nature to be dissatisfied. |
Charles Il. Blaney is trying to write like |
Augustus Thomas. And Thomas latest play, |
The Rangers proves that he is trying to |
write like Charles u. Blaney. 1t is fearful to /
see how bloodthirsty playwright can become
-even a playwright who years ago wrote |
'Editha's Burglar and ''Aabamai'' The
execution Of a lot of prisoners in squads of |
ten is a massacre for whose grotesque horror
here Is no palliation in dramatic interest. |