The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-15
Fake Stage Meals
And the misery They Cause Actors.

lessness One of Powers especial acts
was the rapid swallowing of large
number of jam tarts which he found
upon the scene When the tarts were
properly made he could swallow
couple of dozen and his performance
never failed to gain him hearty laugh
Powers longed for this moment for the
rise of the curtain, and nursed IL with
the greatest care.
1t was Bills duty TO make the tarts
afresh for each performance by gum
ming strips of the thinnest kind Of
Whitley brown tissue paper, finished off
with a dab of jelly on top. The paper
used was so thin that the tarts would
collapse with the slightest moisture, and
Mr.. Powers could pack them away in
his cheek without Inconvenience.
One night the young comedian had
| friends in front, and throughout the
piece he worked hard for their APP
prevail; but the moment he most longed
for was when he would be swallowing
the tarts. BY the time his scene came
he was in such a hurry to show how
smart he was, that he seized the dish
of tarts and crammed half a dozen into
his mouth before he discovered that the
paper did not collapse as usual, and
that he had his mouth stuffed full Of
stiff, solid wrapping paper that would
neither crush nor moisten.
Between rage and modification Mr..
| Powers began to choke, and but that
, Edouin ran on the stage and began
pounding him on the back, il is hard TO
say what might not have happened. AS
it was, Edouin got the laughter of the
house, and Powers scene fell fiat. but
clever comedian was saved for the pub
lie.
Talking of stars makes one think Of
the story about Nat Goodwin and his
wife, Maxine Elliot.
1t has been going the rounds, and you
may possibly know it, but if you don t
it 8 worth knowing.
The couple had been having a some
what heated discussion as to the real
authorship of Shakespeare IS plays.
Mrs. Nat, getting somewhat weary of
Nat s views, snappishly remarked:
"Well, when / get to heaven IL ask
Shakespeare, and then I IT knowl"
"But suppose he sisn't therel" sug-
gested Nat.
Without a moment hesitation his
wife sweetly responded:
Then you'll know!"
They were probably discussing Soth-
ern s production of Hamlet. which is as
beautiful and complete as his rendering
of the part is scholarly and satisfying.
Sothern's Hamlet is no crazy prince
ling, but a grief-stricken youth whose
whole soul is absorbed in the task Of
avenging the honor, as well as the life
of his well-beloved father, and who is
excessively annoyed at the inopportune
banalities of Ophelia; as what man
would not be under like circumstances.
/ never did think Hamlet mad, and.I
never could stand Ophelia.
Sothern is lucky to have for his man
ager a man who understands the value
of lavish productions and of pleasing
the eye as well as the mind. There Is a
manager not hundred miles from Mr..
Sothern's who is becoming a proverb
for meanness. He paid his people with
checks on Christmas eve that he might
save the interest on their money till the
day after Christmas.
His enemies declare that he recently
went to church and was found by the
usher seated in the very last pew.
81 think / can find you better seat
further forward" said the young man,
agreeably.
The manager shook his head,
"Thank you,' he said, "but ] prefer
to stay here and save the interest on
the collection box