The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-07
So Many Men and Women Of National
Prominence Have Gone Into Vaudeville
That Regular Performers Regard
Them AS Members of the
Down and Out Club

FIN -ssl u
There are two ways to break in
to the theater. One is to be SO
rtlliant at the game of acting that
Belasco or some other producer de-
rnands your services. When tho
fserage girl first gets behind the
iootlights she has ambitions or q
great theatrical producer coming
70 her some night and asking how
many thousand a week she. wants
for performing In his play as a
leading lady. Sometimes dreams
come true. x
The other way is to do something
outside OF the theatrical world SO
good they can get into the first
class theaters. Others are So poor
that vaudeville alone dares bid for
their services.
In vaudeville these former heroes
5sor illains OF the big outside world
are on the stage for only few
minutes. They make fine vaude-
lille acts for they are not on the
stage long enough to bore the peo-s
pie and the fact they are on the bill
&1as 5a&great5 drawing card.
Among the great leaders of the
down and out club is Lucille Null
hall, probably the greatest horse
woman OF civilized times. She holds
the world record for broncho bust-
ing for women and also the worlds
record Tor cattle roping for women
i She made those records several
years ago. She is not making
AEecords today. She is still Won
@darful #horseWoman and her daring
riding on her fathers ranch thrills
those who see her Fearlessly she
over the fields
But lucille Mulhall Of today is
not the champion of a few years
ago. Her sister Georgia is prob
ably Just as good or maybe bet
ter horseWoman. There are other
schampfon horsewomen Of the coun-
try today who are probably as good
zas Lucille Mulhall, but the records
show the Oklahoma woman roped
and tied a steer more quickly than
any therawoman In the world and
no one has duplicated her feat
since.
Today she is not breaking her
own She is down and
outer, according to the other vaude-
vile actors. Her appearances on
the vaudeville stage are tame in the
light Of other days. While her rid
ing is worth while for city audi
senee to see. yet 1t is nothing to
what she has done back In her own
prairie home.
Lucille Mulhal1 IS like many oth-
$ers from the COW country al few
years ago they We're working for
$40 q month or less doing daring
sfeats In the saddle. Today they
make more than $40 a week doing
tame stunts on the stage. These
fellows went on the stage because
u hey ere no longer able TO earn
their little salary on the ranch
They were down and cutters in the
=strtctest sense Of tn e word Back
ito the city they Went IN an en-
stteayorz to get some work that would
keep them alive. Some of them
andereds into the vaudeville houses
and began doing ropinS stunts on
Sthe stage for FIVE minutes twice
day and their wages were Vastly
Another or the down and out list
Can be found among the prize
lighters and wrestlers. After they
sare beaten IN the ring or after their
shoulders touch the mat they hunt
for the footlights and tell of their
spastsd leeds: ohm r. Sullivan makes
7a good living on the stage telling
about his wasted fortune and advis=ss
Ing against the use OF liquor Sul-
Ivan Isl q remarkable man in that
he has made two fortunes. He says
he is not millionaire but he has
enough to keep him out of the poor
house
sF0RCED INTO VAUDEVILLE
ssaIs'IERs RING DEFEATS.
John y: Sui Ivan went into the
Sl,rize4rin SO long ago that men who
we're not yet born have grown up
III ~ sc ions Of one sort or .