Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-27
LETTERS FROM A
CORRESPONDENCE
SCHOOL ACTOR

both OF them girls I'll carry the big first
and get the worst of II over with SO | grabbed
up Flora and started Juggling her. and she says:
Amt heap lighter than when you
carried mo in Sapho? I've been takin' some
stun that will make me little"
! said;
You aln't took enough OF II yet" and that
made her mad, and wished hadn't answered
her at ALL
Then ]. J. Murphy holered, That's enough
Drop her." There a big puddle OF water
that them bears had been playing In and had
got all muddy. and as J. J. had said to throw
her in the water and didn't say anything about
no river and no dummy, just throwed her In
the puddle, and It splashed up all over me, and
she got up and took out after me.
Don't you let anybody tell you that fat
girl can't when she's mad. Dave. She
couldn't have caught me, but stuhbed my foot
on root and fell fiat on my stomach, and she
sat down my back and scratched me on the
neck and ears AS bad ms | got scratched In that
wild animal picture. and you just ought to have
heard her language and the things she called
me. Dave.
Honest. | never thought no fat girl, any
kind of a girl. could talk like mat. j. j. says
she was with circus for a long time, and she
picked up all OF that tough talk from the razor
backs that put the tents up in a circus. / hol-
Tered and says. pull her off," But they wouldn't
pun her off OF me- and they took all OF that stuff
with the camera.
J. J. Murphy says. TON. did you do that
purpose, It another OF them celebrated
accidental acts OF yours?'
Il knowed II would make good comedy stun
to throw her in the mud. told him, 80 Just
dumped her in And ! got away with it, too
Pretty slick, Ell, Dave?
That's how come To get them twenty -nve
dollars that ! got robbed of. When they looked
over that film before they printed the pictures
that shown IN the theaters they said that
stuff Of me getting chased by the lion and bust
ing through the wire fence and Throwing Flora
in the mad and her setting OF the best
comedy stHI they'd got Ia year and they gave
and he9 twenty-five do.afs extra.
tell you It felt pretty good 10 have twenty
Eve dollars extra, and 1t all comes from being
such good movie actor. Dave, ard when was
going home that day met two men-and II
they hadn't been two crooks and had paid me
five dollars like they said they would, and |
hadn't got robbed the way did, would have
had thirty dollars extra.
when came TO a kind OF lonesome place
there was two men. one with a camera and the
other with handkerchief tied over the bottom
OF his face. Thay asked rae what time II was
and / said didn't have any watch. but II was
about haif past four. maybe 1--WE o clock And
they told me they was waiting for soma more
actors TO come and help them stage n hoid.up
scene but 1t looked like they wasn't cofnlns
and ore of them said:
You look Ike an actor. DO YOU want 20 make
ies doiiarsf'
/ sad. ~ am As's-. tes get dB!aasa fretn
correspondence sbhoai that teaeass f,sSis ssts
irz ht mail" And he said was The man lhsy
wanted.
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paaad ~ he IN hSBs4t FefiiRshlsn esHaisF .ia,i,a
"a supper, Y6u get held in and iosa ys'ir cages"
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