Evening star., 1909-03-07

| under the title OF PerOla.
| 1t was only at the dress rehearsal that the
| company was instructed to substitute the
| name Iolanthe " for that of Perola " wherever
| it occurred in the text, or lyrics 1t was no
easy task to replace vocally and in the dialogue
| a name of three sylabes for one of four
| Sullivan. however. said (maybe aside) to
one or two of the actors, who were nervous.
Go ahead and sing the music Gilbert won't
| be in front" Gilbert never attended a first
night: so use any name that you think OF
| first, if you are ratified. No one in the audi
ence will be any wiser
To Make 1t Fit the Crime
IGEORGE GROSSMITH. the popular Eng
ish entertainer. and creator OF the pr1n-
| cipal funny leading characters in Gilbert q
Sullivan'S operas, says that when Sullivan was
knighted some one asked him why he, and
not his collaboration, w. S. Gilbert, was chosen
for this honor.
81 don't exactly know" said Sir Arthur;
but suppose her Majesty did it to make the
punishment fit the crime"
Black and White
A POPULAR song writer has evolved the
= following conundrum which he asserts
can be answered satisfactorily:
"If Paderewski and colored musician play
duet and strike with their twenty fingers
the diminished chord of the seventh OF u
| major. how many black fingers will be on the
white keys and how many white fingers on
the black keys!
How to Lure the Crowd
RERNARD SHAW is credited with new
- way of attracting the public to play
Il would put out signs telling the people
passing by that an excellent play was beng
performed inside had theater House only
half full the posters would read. We're not
crowded like the house across the way with its
fictitious S R. o. notices We really deserve
your patronage Well make you very COM
Portable They can't over there: they're too
crowded ;"
English and American Manners
7 WAS talking one day to an American 1ady.'
says George Grossmith, the English enter
tainer, on the differences in society in Eng
| land and the United States. l instanced one
class where things very different
"Said l. In London we have what are called
Conversations Tea and refreshments are
served. and there is music and singing. Now.
they do very rude thing in England. While
the music. and very often the singing. is going
on the guests talk. You don't do that
THE American lady looked pleased No,
they didn't do that over here.
"No.' continued, you don't talk You
shout" >"
Marie Tempest and the Landlady
MARIE TEMPEST tells this tale of an early
Ava experience with landlady:
81 was stopping at lodging house in Lon
| time and was passaby comfortable. The old
| landlady however. would insist giving me
steak and onions for breakfast every morning.
| l protested: but it was of no use. SO when /
| went away took her family Bible and placed
| piece of paper in it with Read Hebrews xiii.
| g. written it. l hope she did: for the
passage runs. The same yesterday. and to-day,
and for ever
Couldn't Tire Them
REATRICE HEREFORD. the monologist. re-
lates how once. when she giving her
entertainment at private house, and had
done all she had agreed to do. in fact had added
an extra sketch an encore, one of the guests
came up to her and in a casual way said:
"Oh. why don't you do some more? Please
do You know we are not a bit tired"
One 4 Deadhead
lnF all nuisances. the greatest to an actor IS
~ would-be deadhead Willie Collier tells
how he got the best of one of them.
Il received a postal card from man l
didn t know from Adam. who said he had met
| me in California. He wished to renew the ac-
quaintance. and maybe l would send him two
tickets for the following Wednesday night. On,
yes, answered it, on postal card, too!
| merely wrote, Maybe l wouldn't"
Du Maurier's Fiery Whiskers
d H BURNSIDE tells of a contretemps that
~ once happened to him during perform
aofS fhar h11r1e of hat