The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-28

of jOllity. Other plays showing actors
comic in agony came to mind as l
watched Hitchcock in his temperance
as an actor after being a prisoner at
the bar. His ordeal was worse than
he could endure without visible suffer-
ing. He was received with an encour-
aging demonstration, but he seemed 10
dread Kisses in the applause, if not mis-
siles from the hands that clapped. 1t
was wonder to see the Familiarity vol
atile and buOyant fellow an embodi-
ment of dependency. His nerves were
SO shaken that those connected with his
vocal outfit made him hoarse. so that
he could hardly speak, and couldn't sing
at all. His gait and gestures were al
most paralytic, and / wouldn't have
been surprised by an utter collapse at
any time during the first act.
The program said that Hitchcock 5
wife, Isabelle, would take a part in the
play requiring her to sing and act
two of the specialized songs. One would
call on her TO be a wife telephOning with
her husband, whose message was that
he wouldn't be home for dinner, while
the woman who was to keep him away
broke in on the wire. thus forming the
conjugal triangle of discord. The man
came half way down the center aisle
W cill6 MS DOi AlOli VI the ltldAOSuGr bllE
outside woman sang her third from an
upper box, and the substitute for Mrs.
Hitchcock had the stage to herself, but
there were separate spOtlights for ali
three. A second song which Mrs Hitch
cock was to have sung with much CO.
quettish action had for a refrain Have
you seen my baby?" and she had re-
hearsed to enter pushing an infant
carriage, with a shOwgirl huddled down
in it and sucking at a milk bottle.
When this occupant of the vehicle had
leaped out and ran away, Mrs. Hitch
cock was TO look for her missing baby
In the audience, with the aid of the
stages searchlight, and implOre such
men in the boxes as it illumined TO come
to her and be babied.
Poor, dear Zabelle Hitchcock, al
ready enfeebled by the test of loyalty
to her husband throughout his court
trials, hoped she could stand by him
on the stage. too; but nervous prostra-
ton put her TO bed at the time
when she was due in her dressing
room; and so understudies figured i'm
her stead as the mistreated and the
sirenic wife. To further distract
Hitchcock, an injunction was served
on him for Henry Savage, for whom he
lldu WI htus lUIDiuullle MIN 10 perform
again for Felix Isman, his new en-
ployer. Is it any wonder that Ray
mond Hitchcock, who had come from
being an upstate village cut-up TO the
atrical distinction should slump in the
role of just that sort of a favoTite
| funny son? 1t was not until the sec
ond act of The Merry -GO-ROund" thai
| Hitchcock began to go round with the
plays whirl. He cheered up some wheT
! he sat fiat on the stage beside Mabe
/ Hite and took a ride in an imaginary
/ buggy, with gossip comments on tht
people they passed by, and finally
| smashed up against an invisible auto
mobile. That seemed to ease the ten,
/ sion on the Hitchcock muscles. and ht
was we'll limbered for the final scene
of bohemian jollity in a studio. where
/ he led i'm the dirty. transferred from hi.
role in "The Yankee Consul" i'm which