The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-04
GILLIAN WRITING BOOK OF COMIC OPERA
Newspaper Man of This City, Now Well Known as Au-
"Incuding Finngan Sells Well.

THE only mental relaxation l nave
ever had" went on the humorist, was
during my connection with the Palla-
dunn.
"Oh, of course, everybody knows
that 'Finnigin to Flanagan was
written at that time-but that doesn't
necessarily refute the original state
ment. However it is the truth that that
poem-since it's publication in Life
has served me as a sort of literary
trade mark as fortunate as it has been
distinguishing.
Il know better men than linen of
superior talent and far more literary
finessee than l possess-who yet are
not half as we'll known. A single hit of
this sort is the luckiest thing that can
happen to a man whose business it is
to be before the public.
Il put it in the title of my book-'In-
Guiding Finnigan'-and while the lat
ter could hardly be ranked with the
six best basements-and not even a
sub-cellar-it still has a steady and
gratifying sale.
'On it's strength l was made a mem
long ago-and they say all sorts of
kind things to and about me- In a year
or so I'm going to box up my touring
car and take my family to England
where Well dawdle about all summer
in the outlying districts'-Wales
and other unknown territory.
mo I'm doing nothing but platform
work, now, although I'm supposed to
be on the spasmodic staff of the Chi
cago Daily News. l was on both the
Baltimore American and Sun and live
in the very prettiest part of Baltimore.
I've got the cutest kid-three years
old-and he-but-no I'm not going to
start on him. could talk about him
all day
Yes, that stuff begun this month
(, in The Ladies World is the record of
UNI entertainer is unique and alone.
! And no one knows til they try it,
, This article, with amusing illustra-
tons by Bonney Royal, is one of the
funniest things of it's sort this writer
has ever done
when l was a. callow YOUTH" he be-
gins, the accent is on youth; every
human is permanently and incurably
callow-I looked to the heights where
stood the great lyceum lecturers. and
was dizzied. Those men who arose up
on their patent leather shoes and from
the depths of full dress shirt-bosom
delivered impassioned eloquence for
an hour and half or so We're walking
on stills around the pinnacle of my
earthly ambition. There was halo
about every lecturers head.
! Nov it all looks different to me. 1t
is merely the difference in viewpoint
from the inside and at closer range.
{ Life pulls us along in it's wake, and
whenever we come within reach of
anything youth had seen surrounded
with a halo, life takes stick and
knocks off the halo, laughing harshly
the while"
dent to the life of the lyceum enter
tainer. the article says much:
at is not only what you can do when
you get there, but can you get there?
If not your eloquence, your fddleabili
ty, your nightingalitis will avail you
nothing, either in finance or glory. If a
paltry drive of thirty miles in biz
zard deferred you, you are 4 caitiff
That's the mildest name you will be
called and you ought to consider your
self lucky if caitiff is the worst thing
said about you.
"These theatrical folks who jump
fifty or sixty miles and play one-night
stands fill the publications with their
haggard tales of deprivation and hard
ship. Yet their lives are as toll-gate
keepers compared with that of the ly
scum single entertainer or company.
lone week last fall filed one nigh,
at Doylestown. Penn. the next al
Wheeling, West Virginia, the next al
Toledo Ohio, the next at South Bend
Indiana, and the next at Red Wing
MINI.
1.-The humane society would have
gathered about the wailing theatrica
company that had made half the
Jumps"
One of the drollest of the pictures
in illustration is that of-say Chau
tauqua audience--as it appears from
the other side of the platforms edge.