Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-12
Artist at a Local Theater Tells
History of His Life for
Publication
BY the Cub Reporter.

49, &, 7. ..
t.a1 BY the Cub Reporter. n.
The cub reporter was sent out the
other day to interview member OF
the profession now playing at one OF
the local theaters with the object Of
getting q little OF his life history. The
cub located his man, got the, inter.
view, and wrote it up just as the
actor dictated it to, him. His copy
read something like this:
yes, have been in the pfofes,
sion for a good many years. You
see, acting sort of came natural to
me as Ill my family were actors.
Father and mother were both on the
stage, also q sister and my brother
Ernest. Ernest had q good job in
Dime Museum: he was q regular hui
man ostrich; and would eat anything
from tin can to q corrugated iron
roof. ] will never forget q little In,
cident that happened inst before he
got the Job. Mother had been down
town, one day doing little shopping
and she brought home some OF those
big pearl buttons. She put the but
tons ON the paYlor table and went IN
70 take her hat on. While she was
gone, Ernest came in, saw the buttons
and ate every one Of them. Mother
came back. noticed the buttons gone
and asked him where they were, He
told her that he had eaten them, but
that he had only done 1t in fun; but
mother knew the buttons were in earn
est.
"a little after this got a job with
an Uncle Toms Cabin show. ! didn'i
have much to do at first but to play
the part of q cake OF Ice and outside
shouts. Then the man who played
the part of the blood hound left, and
the manager gave me his job. 1t was
a cifieh, too; all had to do was to
dress up in big dog skin and one OF
the stage hands would lead me around
In the parade But the manager gof
pretty sore once when one OF these
iay constables made him pay "a n
cense of two bones for me. Believe
me, I was the regular houn' dog. II
was easy money, but 1t was such
skin game that was ashamed to take
the money. ,....~ '.s,-...
1--WE used to have a lot Of fun with
the dame who played the part OF
Little Eva" She said she was only
sixteen, but we all knew that she had
been a member of the original Black
Crook company, and that she had q
daughter in school then. Well, one
night she had a row with the boss
over her wages, and she said that she
wouldn't go to heaven until she got
what was coming to her. The boss
got pretty sore and told her that u
she ever got what was coming to hel
that she would never go to heaven.
Where the Sucker Was. p.
after about two years | quit the
show business for while and solo
vacuum cleaners. You know what
vacuum cleaner is, don't you? Well
vacuum cleaner is piece OF hose
with a sucker on one end. sold one
to a Jew clothing dealer for three
hundred dollars; that time the suck
er was on the other end. He put II
out in front of his store to draw IN
trade. p.
saThe salesman bushes didn't ap
peal so very strong SO / went bacl
on the boards with another fellow ant
we framed up a brother act. :. W.
were stopping in a small town ont
night at the same hotel where
stranded Dime Museum bunch wa
hanging out. That night a fire brok'
out i'm the hotel and the way tina
crowd acted up was fright. At tint
time the fire started, Jo-Jo, the dog
faced boy, was down in the dining
room eating a charlotte russo. hi
heard the noise and got so excitet
that he ran upstairs to the head por
ter and asked him to save his life
The head porter thought he had by
drophobia and shot him. MaJo
Small, the midget, ran out into TIT
hall, mistook a rat trap for the ele
yator and craWled in. They had II
guard him all night to keep the ca
away. The India Rubber man jump
ed out on a window on the SECOND
floor and bounced back into the
bearded lady's room. 1t scared he1
so that her beard, which was lyins
on the dresser at the time, turned
white. The Human Skeleton crawleG
into a fire nozzle by mistake and got
squirted six blocks. But the best
part of the whole thing was the fire
chief. He was down below rushing
around when he bawled out: Gel
ready with your axes, men, the walls