The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-02

box, It's the set apart for members Of thu
profession. 1t isn likely IL have to put any one
there With you. You re actors, all right, at thatba
actors"
''No,'' said Sweeney. 'we've reformed. Didn
you hear about us7 II II be Eve weeks tomorrow
since we got on the cart.
''Good news, says Mr. Hugbes!" remarked tn
He scribbed few hicrogIyphics upon the back o
window, and Sweeney, Sanguinett and Schultz, le
by the finger of fate, disappeared through the lobby
lf their seats had been anywhere else in the hous
anywhere but in that upper stage box-but, as W
said before, post mortems Life is made up Of tn
which make or mar the future And we never kno7
until afterward, and then it is too late
the machinery of destiny began to revolye rapidly.
While the first act vas in progress, Schultz, hal
young lady cutter, look about her disdainfuly, snif
few times and take seat far away from him a
ii Hey Io Look XIV Who % here! ss said SCHULTZ
Sweeney and sanguinetti were surprised, too San
it. :ns she R@
LOST said the little lady "Well, sh d So,
.gEoH goH sing win my mamma in the third act. 1t
ON" said Sweeney; "Is mamma an qctross''
m the principal boy Nj Eitn this ss0
all the rest of those tronpers beat to death
81 m going to duck announced Schultz suddenly
''she sings up hier in dis box, unit We git baw
''stick around!'' said Sweeney. "It won t come of
Schultz collapsed, mumbng, and the young lad!
smoothed her fluffy skirts and shifted contemptuousy
Destiny in order to play out the hand was using tb
press agent of the house A press agent is younl
man whose business it is to get the pame of his shOV
into print often possible, matter what th
city editors think about him
The press agent whose name was Harley q Walker
was live wire he was the livest wire IN st. Louis
He kept in touch with the doiugs Of his profossiona
brethren in the east and when pressagent stun
appeared on Broadway, Harley O. annexed It for st
down the aisle OF New York theater and handed
Va SboOt Rul etun Ru
baby elephants are scarce, and was to be fount
in st Louis What to do 9ow3 Harley Q. slapped bi
broad, high forehead, and reflected deeply. Aha
There was troupe Of performing balloons appearing
at summer garden in the city. Mr.. Walker wa
saved.
1t took some time to make the arrangements. Th
man who trained the balloons demanded money. L
deal Of advertising, which was better than money
After talk he capitulated. Then the balloons ha
qucts. There were eight of them, and they wer
particularly homcly brutes, but, like most unhandsom
people, they were sagacious
They took to the bouque t-carrying act like Forty
second street Johnnies. Excellent! Mr.. Harley G
Walker was pleased with himself. the management wa
pleased with him, and the newspaper men would b
on band watch the parade of the Towering balloons
Mr.. Walker calculated that it should be worth
column and pictures to every paper in town
We have thirteen characters in the cast
Sweeney, sanguinetti, SCHULTZ the little lady in tn
sent the fourteenth actor in the drama lurcbin
through the doors shortly after the opening of tb
second act The fourteepth actor was fat rcd in th
face and of 6tful, troubled ideas. His name make
difference at all, though he told the police after
ward that it John Smith.
An usher looked at John Smith doubtfully as h
seated him in the very last row upon aisle,
Keep your eyes that souse,' he warned hi
companion,
John Smith oozed into his scat. He found tn
quivers fell asleep, and DIRE amed Of strange animal.
In the upper stage box Sauguinetti and Sweene
ss Sp the sn Es % to s5 f the o1 9
night before The seoTnfd1l little lady S counted @ Ii
hOuse andsn ed
Out in tho lobby Mr., Walker and the trsine
marshaled the eight oower bearing baboons.
'Tbe house is dark for the next song said tb
press agent, "and that's the time VIC d better her
the monks into their positions: She lights up righ
after the moon song for the finale OF the act. No'
let's see-four monks to aisle and four to tb
other, and you RE to send 'em down with the flower
''Did YOU give EN- my pictuFc7'' asked the traine
..,surest thing, you know" lied Harley @. glibly
rr,Theyll probably want to interview aftcrward
'fAll right said, the trainer. Gan seti Hup
You Battling Nelson; Quit thstl,'
face and pink whiskers, showed his teeth depreca
tory smile, and the processi on began to move.
the auditorium The, stage deserted, save for
very big woman with very little voice, who wa
fo bye
giles of the large lady upon the stage;
Gurgle He ierked his head about to mako sure of hi
surroundings. and iu the sbadowy gloom of the place
his astonishcd eyes rested upon a solemn procession
of dog faced apes with bouquets in their bands. Tb
balloons were passing along the runway behind tb
last of seats, aud they were so close that Johr
Smith might have touched them
Now. every one knows that when man is ac
cusomed to pink lizards and purple mice, baboou
with in their hands terrible shock TO hi
system.
John Smith leapod to his feet, with boarse how
OF terror. and even he yelled he launched a tre
mcpdous kick al the baboon nearest to him.
Then everything happened at once.
You can kick a baboou if you see him first but vo,
cannot make him like it, baboon is sensitive. HI
doesD I look it, but YOU tell from the colo
Of baboou g face what his disposition may be
Two baboops and three usbers hurled themsclve
upon Johu Smith, who began 70 fight like maniac
of the house had jumped TO their feet with the frs
yel now Smith cries were xed with the chatter
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