Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-04
ALASKAN PLAYERS
REAL SOUR DOUGHS'
Press Agent Stunt? S-s-sh! Perish
the Thoughtful viii Cost
You Only Fifty
Cents

All STAGE door "Johnnies" can have
their ambition gratified and can meet
the actresses on equal terms, PROVIDED
they have some friend in the company
have the necessary 90 cents, goou pair
of shoes, and nerve enough 70 plou
along five or more weary miles az
honorary members of THE Alaskan
Operatic Pedestrianitis club, for every
member of the company singing thaI
opera has lately become imbued Win
an ambition to walk, walk, Walk-hot
that such is imperative by any means,
but apparently because each member
has been visited by the desire in the IN
teIest of health to keep moving as
much as possible and get as much
good, pure, fresh air into the lungs
as conditions of travelling through the
country permits. So serious and earnest
have they become in the matter that
they have organized what they Iace-
tiously term The Alaskan Pedestrian
tits club, have elected their president
whose rulings will be final-have Sec
retary who will keep tab on the num-
Der of miles each member walks ana
will have also treasurer whose duty
will be to collect all fines Imposed
through any infraction of the rules as
laid down by the bylaws drafted by
the committee selected for that pur-
pose.
After the Prizes
The real foundation of the .organiza-
tion is health and the ambition to win
fine nrizes to be allotted at Christmas
to those who have scored the best rec
ords. The rules are peremptory, Gaining
for an initial assessment of 81 eacn,
and require that every member shall
walk daily not less than five miles or
shall be fined-if principals, 90 cents,
and if chorus, % cents-for each ana
every day which the secretary is unable
to record Eve miles to his or her credit.
Every mile is to be recorded ana
credited and to be added to each menu
hers record each day, the sum total TO
decide the winner of the first, second
and third prizes at Christmas time-the
prizes to be purchased with the money
on hand, accruing from the initiation
fee and fines assessed. For example,
the person with the highest record is
to receive the most expensive present,
the next best to receive the second
prize, the one holding the third record
fine third prize, with provisions made
for members not having a winning rec
ord but who have made creditaole
showings.
hack down and resign, he or she for
feits all fines paid in as well as any
interest in the distribution of presents
or the Notification at the holiday time,
and pays 50 additional for the privilege
of being dubbed lobster.
Lora Leib, the prima donna of the
company, is president; FRITZ Won Blu
sing, the contralto, is the secretary, and
Billy Fables, who impersonates the
frolicsome bear in the opera, Is the
easurer-selected perhaps for the rea-
son that he will growl more artistically
than the rest of them should the fines
not be forthcoming promptly.
The committee on rules consists OF
Edward Martindel, Forrest Huff, Will
r.. Molitor, Geo. e. Mack, Ida Fttzhugh
and w. f. Rochester.
Every member of the cast has pur-
chased sweater and neaVy watkins
shoes and in the smaller cities they
expect to create a genuine sensation
when fifty or more of them start out