Connecticut western news., 1915-06-24

crate n&trcns rrcc more crow<.1ng the auditorium Nrd seven rc,.':"-::t.s adde's the plcaSurahlc excitement of the pat nerS in their venture will Te under stood by any one who hHs seen met ropOlit3n 1n?naGcr stiol.irg about t!l, foyer of his theater some evening dur ing the earlier stares of an assured phenomenal run"
 From the first there was no uuestior which feature of the entertainment was the attraction extra ordinary. Yer man-Verman, the savage tattooed wild boy, speaking only h:s native foreign anguages-Vermun WGS triumph! Beuming, wYeathed ill smiles. meiodi- Ous, incredibly fluent, he had but to open his lips and a Uead hush fell up@n the audience. BrCatAieSS, they leaneI forward, haagin@ upon h $ every semi syllable, and when Penrod checked the How, burst into thuEders of applause, which Vermun received with happy laughter.
 Alas, he delayed not OCT long to dis play all the egreglousness of new star. but for a time there was no caprice of his too eccentric to Ee for given. During Penrod's lecture upon the other curios the tattCOed wild boz continually stamped his foot. grinned and gesticulated, tapping his thy chest and pointing to himself ;:s it were to say, Wait for me; am the big show.' So soon they learn; so soon they learn! And (again alasI this spoiled darling of public favor. like many another, was fated to know in good time the fickle- ness of that favor.
 But during all the morning perform ances he was the idol of h.s audience and looked it. Tie climax of his pop ularity came during the fifth overture of the Schofield x Williams military band, when the music was quite drown ed in the agitated clamors of Miss Rennsdale, who was enGeavOring to ascend the stairs ill spite of the phys ical dissCasion of her governess.
 "I won't go home to lunch!' scream ed Miss RennsdaIe. her voice accomra- nied by a sound of ripping. T vii! hear the tatooed wild boy talk some more! It's lovely-I viii lear him talk! I will! I will! I want to, listen to Verman-I want to-I want to-
 Waiting, she was borne away, of her sex not the first to be fascinated by obscurity nor the last to champion it's eloquence.
 Verman was almost uncomfortable aft CT this, but. like many, many other man. agers, Schofeld x Williams restrained their choler and even laughed fulsome- ly when their principal attraction es- saved the role of a comedian ill private and capered and squawked in sheer, fatuous vanity.
 The first performance of the after noon rivaled the successes of the morn ing, and, although Miss Rennsdale was detained at home, thus drying up the single source of cash income devel- oped before lunch, Maurice Levy ap- peared, escOrting Marjorie Jones, and paid coin for two admissions, dropping the money into Sam's hand with a careless-ndy. cOntemptuous-gestu At sight of Marjorie, Penrod SchOfield nuSueu ullIEE HIS IGW NC~ painted since noon) and lectured as he had never lectured before. A new grace invested his every gesture, a new sonorousness rang in his voice, a simple and manly pomposity marked his very walk as he passed from curio to curio, and when he fearlessly handled the box of rats and hammered upon it with cool insouciance he beheld, for the first time in his life, a purl of ad miration eddying in AIarjorie's lovely eye, a certain softening of that eye. And then Verman spake-and Penrod was forgotten. MarjOrie's eye rested upon him no more.
 A heavily equipped chauffeur ascend ed the stairway, bearing the message that Mrs. Levy awaited her son and his lady. Thereupon, having devOured the last sound permitted (by the man. agers) to issue from Verman, MT. Levy and Miss Jones departed to a real mati-