Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

would make his excellency the pres
ident sit UP and take notice could ne
hear 1t.
The last time back from the hunt
Joe returned without the coveted ant
lers, but he brought a yarn with him
just the same. AS l remember II tne
tale was something like this.
cit was "a dark, cold and stormy
night. Ollie Morosco and his little
band of mighty hunters were seated
about the camp fire. Suddenly the
chief turned to me, his trusty spinner
of yarns, and commanded: Joe. tell
US a story Straightway 1 thus be-
gan: 1t was dark cold and stormy
night. Ollie Mororco and his little
band of mighty hunters.
Just at that moment Charlie Eyton
saw a shadow on the wall that re-
minded him of John Blackwood's hat
and in the ensuing confusion l made
my. escape. 1t was good yarn
though, as far as it went.
Frederick Belasco, who has been in
Los Angeles for the past three weeks,
left Friday for San Francisco He VIII
remain there a week and then expects
to return for a month or more. After
that he will devote alternate weeks to
his two houses, the Alcazar in san
Francisco and the Belasco here.
Bill Ajax" Zeno, the acrobat, was
standing at the Orpheum stage en-
trance last night swapping lies" with
a couple of other performers, when one
OF the number asked:
Bill, why, when and where did you
get the nickname 'Ajax'?"
Never hear that Story?" replied
Zeno. well, that was twenty years
ago, when 1 was canvas man with the
old John b. Doris circus You know.
old John b. used to go broke about two
or three times in a season, and there
was always scramble among the boys
to get to the pay wagon every pay day
for fear the sheriff would get there
first.
sometimes the rush ended up in a
fight, so the old man had the whole
bunch listed alphabetically, and called
them up in the order of their names.
1--WE were travelling through South
ern Indiana and business was the worst
ever. We had rain and hail and snow
that summer, and the old man was put
ting in about half the time in Chicago
pawning the elephants and mortgaging
the camels to raise transportation
money.
that the show would close, and OF
course everybody was anxious to get
In on the ground floor before the money
was all gone:
"As soon as the treasurer began pay
ing / went up and asked for mine.
NAME says he.
"'Zeno,' says l.
".Get out, we're only at the DIS, he
retorted.
II made two other calls to find that
the LIS and the SIS were getting theirs.
.sFinally the treasurer closed up ms
wagon and started toward the main
tent. I ran after him and asked Tor
my pay.
"'What name?' he says.
"'Zeno,' says l.
".Too bad. Zeno,' he answered. You
should have chosen a name that dld
not begin with the last letter of the
alphabet. There was only money
enough to pay the US. Better change
that name to Ajax:
The Theater Royal has again changed
hands and another change in pollcy Is
imminent. The house, understand is
to be occupied by popular priced
dramatic stock organization. Ihere
will be no chorus, no abbreviated cos
TIMES. no music. 1.-The Little Rebel
has been tentatively selected as the
opening bill, and l am told that Lule
Warrenton, Myrtle Selwyn ana others
of the late Ulrich company probably
will be in the cast.
Miss Selwyn, by the way, did really
clever bit of work at the Orpheum last
week. She was summoned unexpect-
eddy to take the part of the girl TIMER
in 1.-THE Girl from Yonkers," Miss Mae
Elwood, who had been playing it, haV-
ing become i'll. Miss Selwyn went on
with only a fey. hours notice and made
good. Shs played the role during the
greater part of the week and is stu
playing it, though 1 understand MISS
Elwood expects to return to the cast
tomorrow.
Miss Katherine Kirkwood, an actress
well known in the east for her WORK
with various stock organizations out
whose most recent engagement was
with a stock organization in Vancou-
yer. is in Los Angeles and probably
will be seen within short time upon
the stage of one of the local tneaters'
In private life Miss Kirkwood Is MRS
Walter Fredericks. Her huspanu Is
director of the Unique comic opera
company.