Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
AUDIENCE VIRTUES IN JOY AT
AUDIToRIUM
AM ERIcAs STAR JokEsMlTHs
GIVE THEIR BEST
More Serious Poems Form Part of the
Proeram-Entertainm Swells
Fund for Monument to
Bill Nye

| by large audience at the Auditorium
last night, when the brightest and SHINES
lights of American humorists kept q
group of well meaning and ordinarily dig
nified people writhing In their seats In nr
ecstacy of Joyous laughter.
The funmakers were forced to play
against time to keep their program lons
enough to allow Louis James to finish the
show in appropriate style.
Robert j. Burdette acted as master o1
ceremonies, and started the fun by intro
ducing the empty chairs strung out across
the front of the stage giving each the
name OF one of the humorists who should
have occupied them. The speaker ther
explained that the humorists were afraid
to appear in body, though he had as
sured them that eggs were too high In
Los Angeles and that the worst that
Southern California ever handed their en-
tertainers was lemons.
Thomas Augustine Daily of Philadelphia
who has made the Catholic Standard and
Times known all over the country, was
the first entertainer, and he went straight
to the hearts of his audience with an
Italian selection of the famous and de-
lightful Carlotta poems.
Recltes Poems
Mr. DAILY might have been the whole
program had the others failed to come on,
so well were his selections received. He
gave Irish and Italian poems and two
American bits that made tremendous hit
with his hearers.
If the whole world would adopt the SEN
timent in one of his verses the divorce
question would cease to be a question and
some courts go into a worthier business.
This poem was loudly applauded by the
women present, especially those who were
young and looked to be inexperienced
but you never can tell. 1t was entitled
kiss Her." and was long and unfor-
settable sermon to all the married folk
within his hearing.
The deep pathos of some of Mr.. Daly's
readings was suddenly lighted by flashes
of wit SO delicate and so charming that
many in the audience will read his verses
hereafter with greater enjoyment because
they know the man.
my American Girl brought half
dozen hearty laughs. There were tears
in his verses on MY Leetle Boy" This
story in a few lines carried one into the
slums of great city, where, in the dingy
tenements, a wee soul yearned for the
coming of spring; where two little hands
were clasped with ecstacy when across
the dingy courtyard a sprig of struggling
appeared; then to the sor-
row of the father. But the pathes only
fingered as a memory and softened hearts
turned with greater pleasure 10 his read
ings in a lighter vein. He ended with
Bachelor Hail." and brought home to
many truths that are often passed over
with Jest.
kiser on Hand
S. f. Kiser CT the Chicago Record
Herald started things with his story Of
the boy who got all the hand-me-downs,
and the girl in the family who handed
up all her things to ''maw." His ballad
of the Will Carleton type, of Since Fanny
Went Away" gave his hearers an insight
into the delightful nature of this famous
man.
Strickland w. Gillian was introduced as
the man who forced US all to read The !
Los Angeles Herald, and who has forced
us to read all we could find of his writ |
ngs since. The introducer apologized for
a man who had once lived in Los Angeles, |
but who had so far gone wrong as to live |
In Baltimore.
Glliland won his first laugh on his !
shape-as he always does. The second |
came on his face. When he could get the |
audience quiet enough to listen he started |
things again by addressing it as Ladies, |
gentlemen and tourists"
you are" said the speaker, many OF !
you, making your first appearance tonight |
before me. Don't let it embarrass you. |
After 1 have made a few startling and
remarks and confessions you
will think we have known each other
about as long as necessary. My remarks
are called at times lectures. They might
be that il my words were not at times
misleading. The language we speak is
most misleading at times. Why, In the
name of pity, do we say, after we have
robbed chicken of all its clothing, that
we are dressing it?
Was a Farm Boy
'I was brought up on a farm" This
with ineffable sadness mingled with ex-
pectation. Looking his audience over
again the lanlky humorist sighed deeply
and continued From the deckled edge
of the coast of Maine to the golden
shores of California have made that as
sertion before people and never got sur
prised look
~ was brought up on sunshine and
I thrive on 1t. If you
will furnish the sunshine for few min
utes l am here with punches of the other
/ soaked up all the sunshine
not needed by the other vegetation L
wore one pair of frayed and faded over
alls, usually at half mast, one hickory
shirt and one gallus. There were two
reasons why 1 didn't wear two galluses,
but one was sufficient I didn't want to
be called dude.~
"It was there on the dear old farm my
fond and anxious parents first discovered
with horrt that I was infected with a
humoristis microbe They applied home
treatment and even carried it to the lay
ing on of hands.
''The first symptom of my affliction ap-
peared one day when my mother told me
to take grandma's bread and butter over
1 said l would take her bread, but I
butter over. Then I got mine"
"Brother Ernest"
When the audience had crawled back
into its seat Gillian told of his brother
Ernest According to his drollery this in
dividual had the champion long. short
and middle distance appetite of the CEN
tury. He told how his relative over
come by temptation had swallowed two
dozen glass buttons with such strength
and swiftness that they could be heard
clicking one against another as they
slid down his little aesophagus Mother
started to lick him. He declared he was
in fun, but mother was convinced the
buttons were in Ernest.
Then came the first sign of the pathos
tha great humOrist shows at times He