The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-21
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was naive and knowing young
woman clerking in country store
inherited from her husband. A
dozen evening loungers sat around
The store when they didn { make the
widow more allurinp source of
genial warmth. They bought five
cents worth of nuts, crackers and
smoked herrings and the widow IS
own made cakes To eat, each by
himself. with perhaps a glass of
clder or spruce beer 10 moisten the
dryness. Among them were the
village S richest old skinfint and
hls son, so agreeably different that
the Widow Wrinkle was fondcr of
him than she let him know. The
son had longing eyes fixed on the
httle woman. while the father
gloated covetousIy over the store
itself; for he was a wIdower. and
why not acquire the business by
marriage?
Come, boys he said. in
reckless impulse of sordid profit
2acy. "lct's have candy raffe.
Ten chances at n nickel apiece and
quarter $ worth of the sweet
stuff for the winner. Thatll give
Mrs Winkle a double price -
hat S awfully sporty aud
spendy of you, deacon, and TO show
my thanks i II watt dime into
the pot-to take one chance for
myself and one for-Dimples, :"
Dlmples made an entrance at that
moment. He was a smooth, little
chap with an infantile face dimpled
for hve or SIX years.
And your son shall draw the
first slip from the hat,n said the
deacon
This was no time for his stingi-
ness TO dominate his action. He
plotted TO make Dimples sure
winner. That would warm the
widows heart TO him at a cash
cost OF d nickel. A uickcl2 Gosh
a mighty, he d 20 it for half Il
dollar. In q glow OF wild. passion
ate generosity, he widened the
scope of his scheme by adding:
"And I'm stand FIR the hull, g0l-
damned half dollar. Dimples hez
got t. vim
''You dazc me, you dear old
dazzIcr," said the widow.
Cuteness of Dimples
Dimples let the deacon pat his
curly head, but did not let him
see his wink at the widow; while
the deacon thought Dimples was the
only one who didn t perceive that,
instead of nine blank slips in hat
and one 10 win, he marked the
whole ter with the lucky cross.
BY. that. you see, Dimples as the
first drawer, couldn t help getting
the candy. The widow said the
deacon was too dreadfully good
Dlmplcs thrust in his thumb-and
a foreGnger-and pulled out
plum and said: 'tWhat candy
kid am II The deacon gave him
the prize to divide with his "dear
mother
But momsy has chance, too"
the sweet little gambler prattIed
In vain the deacon tried to con-
vince him that all was over when
he drew the winning slip. "All
right, he rctorted IN whimper,
''but what IS the harm of his draw
ing a blank for his momsy?' The
deacon frowned The actors
laughed. Dimplcs again put in his
thumb-also a fore6nger-and
again drew out plum. Cute lit
tie urchiu. wasn't he?
Change Produces Fun
ii that much of the play doesn't t
make a readable auccdotc Of a
country story. then ] We given too
much space to II. But the old
adage of the playwrights, "Nevcr
fool your audience was tested by
Il changed version in the evening.
You who mean 10 write plays may
take heed. In The afternoon the
actor of Dimples WAS not discoV-
cred as an adult comedian, but was
mistaken for an infantile prodigy
until Just before the fall of the
curtain. The name of Master
Raphael IN the programme had
identified him 10 only a very few
as an expert impcrsonator of
cherubic Youngsters. No resent
mcnt at the trick was perceptible
among the women; but the younger
men a. the thcatcr dislikcd to be
doubted as know .aIls, and here they
showed some cbagriB. In the even
ing performance, it was made
known at the outset of the play,
instead of being kept secret un.
ti the climax, that Dimples WASH Z
Widow Wrinkle s son on q vaca.
tion from school, but her brother
as old rs she. and visiting her on
leave of absence from circus.
4 lot Of fun was evolved from his
fooIing of the persons on the
stage and the people in the audi
forum enjoyed the show much
more by knowing from the first
who and what he was.
Lark at the Lambs Club
Like school children dancing
around maypolc, actors in New
York have had MAY week Of
merry frolic iu the Lambs annual
public gambol, negro minstrelsy by
The Professional Woman s Protec.
tive league. and other spring out
breaks of foolery. The Lambs.
which Lester Wallack, John
Brougham and few less remem-
bered actors started small. Is now
a numerous and afiiUent club. ~
gives winter shows mouthly in ITS
own house for its Own fun, and
once a year spring one elsewhere
that outsiders may buy their way
into. This time the spacious New
theater was crowded by people who
had paid high auction prices for
half the room down to no less than
50 per seat anywhere in the great
parquet,
AS the Lambs get older they trisk