The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-25

Robbed at the outset of our stereo-
typed remarks, we bundled back to the
stage entrance to search the letter rack.
There on the spOtless, tinted wall, was a
white panel of kalsomine, a frame
painted deCOrously around it, and above
was the printed sign;
AMATEURS AND AMBITIOUS
ACTORS WILL PLEASE
REGISTER HERE.
OF course there was not a mark.
In each dressing room was a framed
motto: This is not Days or Wallack's,
and we know it. You are not SaIvini or
Henry Irving, or you would not be here.
So don't kick"
On the door of the property room was,
I'VE know our scenery is bad; how is
your show?"
When we got through our tour OF in
spectiOn we were all inwardly srinn.ng
with appreciation, though we kept a
gloomy exterior. II would not do to
let the "Rubes" see how sinlrtlV they
had filliped us At :he Same time we
felt an increased anxiety about the
evenings performance, an anxiety
which was not Iessened by the result of
a second rehearsal. As the cast stood,
we were in for the guying of cur lives
and it simply had to be changed But
as the rehearsal had lasted until within
an hour and half of the time for ring
in up the matter Of rearrangement
was more than complex. Boots could
not have been particularly happy for
we had utterly sent him to Coventry.
What sort of a study have YOU 9"
demanded Carson, turning on him
fieTcely.
'Huh?" queried the gentle Roots. He
was blinking with distress, quite like a
pet monkey.
"Can you memorize quickly?"
Very" murmured Boots, with added
sadness. Former points of pride were
becoming dangerous 10 vaunt, and lac
was afraid of nothing BY now bat his
eXcellencies.
Then take this part for tonight. II
is Chapman Childs'. DO what you can
with it. When you have said all that
You can remember, Gun't hang around
Get OFF the stage and SIX down." said
Carson. And those brutauy brief sug-
gcstiOns were all he vouchsaGed.
III try not to sit down. muTmJred
Boots.
Can I help you at au?" volunteered
Childs. none too genially. Not that ne
minded the loss of his part, for it was
very thankless one, nothing more than a
feeder" and did not own a line that
stood on its own legs. Childs by the
force of his name and experience had
merely rescued the part from oblivion
nothing more. shall I run over it for
you?"
Thanks" agreed Boots. But don't
you think I'd better play it according to
my own conception"
The ingratitude of it.
II YOU have one, certainly" said
Chapman Childs.
You are big and fat. you see" STAN
mered Boots. while / am small and
thin. 1t would never do for me to copy
fat fun. I'll have 10 think Of some thin
fun"
You Will" assented ChildS. positive
ly. His inference was cruelty evident.
but we could not blame him-Boots was
unteachable. We wiped our minds of
him and FASTENED away to choke down
our dinners. Boots never left the the
atre.
We had a packed house that night
Carson as the minister again made a
sympathetic hit and everything prom
ised to go on its even way, when We
who were not on the stage-were star
tied ny hearing a good-natured roar of
laughter where no roar had ever come
before.
Its the beastly firenies." guessed
Ashley. They're tWinkling an the jail