The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-24
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'+Oi"' sad Jacobus. regarding him keculy English army. of course? ?'
 ..Yes." answered Val shortly, regret ttr-> ll:s: frarxness.
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 f-ove!:.;l! e.s I t1Te broken out into szsva.-c 4;:'>.x':l t. 7Ic. a lieutenant in re tsse:lad.er' guards, asked by this seedy theatrical man if it were a ser s'unt.
 s-No. I wasn't a sergeant he replied.
 'I'm! See here, I hope you didn't leave the arlny-er-on short notice. eA? You know what I mean"
 Do you mean am deserter? We'll, set your mind at rest" said IoveIand. swallowing his wrath. "Im not .deserter, and I shan't bring dis grace upon your company"
 ''Ail right. all right. I'll take your word for it. But. say, the more look at you the more I have q kind Of sneak Ing idea I've seen your picture lately. Did ycU get your photo stuck in any of the theatrical papers since you land ed?" .'No.'' Loveland replied. but flushed again. instantly guessing where and in what connection JacobuS must have seen his portrait. a sketch or some snapshot perhaps Evidently the man did not yet associnte him with any thing in particular, but the connection between the new juvenile lead and certain Englishman made notorious by one CT two New York papers might at any instant link itself in MT. Jacobus' head This Loveland was far from desiring, not that he thought his value to the management would be decreased by the discovery. rather the contrary. judging by his experience with Alex anter. but because he could not bear to repeat that experience
 Jack Jacobus was himself. it seemed. leading man for Miss Lillte de Lisle. ..the little human hower'' = heavy lead he called it. but to the heavy lead apparently belonged all the really good parts ill the company's repertory. Their productions struck Loveland as being wonderfully good for a strolling troupe. playing week by week in ex- trenleIy small towns, but Jacobus laughed when he remarked that it must be expensive to obtain the rights of such popular pieces as Sidney Gre mer's. for instance. and to put them on the stage properly
 seProperly"' he echoed. grinning. ssNell, that depends. We carry six men, counting me and you. and there ain't many D1ec6S we put on except Sidney Cremer's comedies, where there is less than d dozen or fifteen male characters, sometimes more. We all double, sometimes each one Of us even me. the leading man. because l ain't proud. Same with the women We carry four Of them. counting L1ll1e herself, and they earn their money You see. we must bill popular pieces melodramas and comedies mostly, or we shouldn't get DO houses, so we cant choose plays with few characters to please lazy actors. As for the rights tc produce-why. we don't trouble our selves about them any more than we do about the pasts of our juvenile lead ing gentlemen. What we want we take It ain't so very risky. though once in awhile the police do shove thei' Enses in where nobody wants them and I confess I'm bit scared about Sidney Cremer's new piece. whicl we're just putting up. Say, you re looking kind of sick. hope you ain't one of the Puritans. are yo:1? DSn't thev have shows of our soc2 in your country ?'
 Loseland said he really d;du't know but as he hastened to add he was not g Puritan and anyhow MT. Jacobus husincss was his own that gentleman did not feel called upon to translate