Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-09

of the front hack with the driver. 1t late alter
noon of a lovely day,-a day of promise and cheer
At the roadside the happy negro and the care free
boil weevil frolicked amid the growing cotton.
splendid glow lit the western sky.
Beautiful sunsets you have in this section of
the country said the heavy to the silent driver
beside him
That there amt sunset" said the driver.
That's the new opry house burnln down.
The Two Strongest Press Notices
Under the head of press notices, there two,
~ standing out alone in SuCCnCtneSS and strength,
that are being quoted this summer where actors get
together. One is credited to an Indiana humorist
hall last night the dogs were badly supported.
And then there was the editor IN Iowa who opened
his forms to insert notice reading something like
this:
Mr. Walkover Mapps the eminent tragedian.
and his company appeared the theater last night.
The bill was Hamlet the Melancholy Dane. An
has long been a dispute whether Shakespeare or
Bacon wrote this justly noted play. We know a
way to settle the mooted question for all time
Let the graves of those noted writer's be opened
The one that turned over during last nights per-
Torrance the author
Which, as nobody deny, should have been
sufficient to detain Mr.. Maps, the eminent
tragedian, for period of time commensurate with
the exigencies
When the Stir Begins
A LONG toward the middle of August more rest
\ less spirit begins to pervade the army encamped
along the Broadway battlements Those who have
who haven't are getting notceably uneasy Voice
trials are on choruses drilling, rehearsals
starting Managers are paying fancy prices for the
use of halls and stages of closed theaters and
for lofts business houses where troupe or
chorus may practise the lines and the steps.
Burlesque teams commonly speaking do not re,
get together at a cafe or quiet corner, or m the
privacy of their bed room, and work up new bust
ness. Their act, like history, must be made be
fore it be written, and very often, like real his
tcrV, 1t is made without being written at all.
Creak q Wheeze at Work
WHILE they loafed, Creak & Wheeze, the well
V" known comedy song and dance team OF that
name, have been keeping their eyes and their ears
open. Creak the literary member of the firm. has
diligently read the funny columns of the daily papers
has also contracted for brand song to finish
the turn with, entitled Walking Down the Board
Walk with DR.. Mary Walker" Wheeze, who car
the bulk of the physical reparee IN the act, has
struck on the idea of bringing dog done up in
a shawl strap, and has thought out device for
squirting seltzer water out of his ear. So the out
lines to brighten up with So they both go down
to Coney and find secluded place along the beach,
and sit down on the sand where nobody can over
hear them and steal their stuff and they start in
We'll do her like this says Creak. You'll
ask me where was yistiddy; and III say. was to
fire sale yistiddy and you'll say, What did you git
to the fire sale yisddy?' and III say got my hair
Sure see says Wheeze 80 Barriers Burned
Away; fire sale That'd be good for laugh at
undertakers convention. And then wa -,
Well lets see says the ingenious Creak. with
the pride of authorship all alight on his rugged
features. oh yes, got it Then you, say. Did
you git that there SCOT you got on at the fire sale
too?' And I'll say No; this here SCOT was knocked
down to me- and you say, How do you know that
SCOT was knocked DOWN.? And III say / heard it
when it fel,-it's crash SCOT? See
astcaly "Thatll go great! All new stuff that
amt none of it been used for years. And just