Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-23
EVA LANG as KATHIE IN
old HEIDELBERG" AT TIE BOYD

downpour-and greeted them
next morning. Evansville was. therefore,
not an inspiring place in which to be.
Miss Auglin and her company left Evans
vile--they were due TO do so siace the
people of Paducah, Ky, were waiting to
see Helena Richie" The manager at
Paducah had. in fact, wired that they
were waiting in large and pleasing num-
5ers to greet Helena.
The car which the railroad provided as
special was special-unique and alto
gether unusual chair car, but vastly
superior even so to the ordinary coaches,
and accepted with true philosophy by the
star, who realized that even it's comfort
had been secured only by dint of her man
ayers special zeal and effort. The COM
pany echoed her cheerfulness and every
body settled back for a somewhat weary
inB ride OF five or six hours The outlook
was through wells OF falling rain to fields
OF fallen rain; not cheerful, but no one
sighed, though a few may have thought
with eagerness of the comfort OF the
Paducah haven.
Because the tracks were in many places
covered with water and the way therefore
uncertain, the train moved very slowly,
and comment circled about how late might
be the arrival In Paducah as the train
moved even more slowly and the hours
clicked off with greater and alarming speed
there was surmise as to how late the cur
tain" would be. Finally the conumdrum
was how late the audience would walt. and
then-then. the train stopped completely.
washout ahead made further progress
impossible, unless indeed. the break could
bo mended. II was then that the field
marshal. or general-he was. in fact both
Manager Gallagher, went out into the
storm and took up his station by the side
OF the teI4gl snh agest and began his fight
with the elements. The result OF the first
reconnoitering was a decision to go back
10 Evansville and get out from there by a
special train and around another way TO
Paducah. arriving at Paducah late, TO be
sure, but in time to give a performance.
The train started back, but stopped. The
track over which It had so recently
crawled was now gone. So the train waited
where It was. and the people In the com
pany special waited with the train.
Outside was rain. and dreary. rain
soaked landscape. prominent I'm which was
dilapldRted shed, and a small implanted
cottage Inside there was the brightness
of a buoyant. undaunteble personality,
whose sweet reasonableness and laughing
perception OF the humOr OF all situations,
even uncomfortable ones. dispelied the
gloom Tor the others. Her immediate APP
probation, moreover OF the odds against
which the manager struggled in this fight
with the flood, spurred him forward with q
determination 70 accept nothing but vic
tory.
AS the wait heightened. the light disap-
peared from the outside world and pros
poets OF might on the side tracks
loomed large, Then a brakeman hustled
cheerlly IN, and essayed 70 give the car
artificial light but the car refused this
cheer-a forgetful caretaker had neglected
70 equip the car with the necessary gas
generator.
Ahal A night IN the wilds OF the HoosieI
state. In a not too comfortable chair car
with no lights
But the woman TO whom the delay meant
most was taking Il AL quietly. even laugh