Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-01-23
MCCORMACK GRINS
AND GRINS AGAIN
Great Irish Tenor Admits He
Eats Food and Recalls
0lden Times.
WANTS TO SEE PRIZE FIGHT

John Mccormack rose from his
chair, closing the popular novel which
he was reading and shook hands with
the reporter. This was in his rooms
at the Fontenelle Monday morning.
The great Irish tenor wore a greyish
brown tweed suit and heavy brown
walking shoes.
lie sat down again and Immediately
ratified off a long rigmarole in which
lie acted as interviewer and inter-
,iewed:-~
Sit down. sir. If We can't sit down,
,tant up. Do think the weathers
told3 Yes Will we have big house
tomorrow night? SO am told, Yes.
bigger house than last time was
here: Good lord, shou.; hope So
DO eat food? Yes. And ! don't
seem 10 be able 20 get any thinner.
guess that about covers .he ground,
doesn't it,"
lie grmncd at the reporter from
the depths OF the chair il. which he
was half reclining.
Ills manager, {. L. Wagner, re-
marked on the improvement IN
Omaha hotel accommodations since
John Mccormack was here last.
Scant Audience.
oh. lord, | don't remember the
hotel said John. IAN | remember
is the Br ndeis ,hcatcr and the III
people in the audience. Omaha was
the wor-r-st, except one hat was
Scarborough, England sang there,
that was tin years ago. There were
l'rtecn people in the auditlcc and /
sang t'irtcen songs, one for each OF
them"
That was before the "orld had
heard OF John Mccormack" said the
reporter.
"Ah, an it might be betther for
them if they hadn't heard OF HIM,
said John with a smile.
Mr.. Mccormack bought Eugene
Fields manuscript .. Little Boy
Blue" at the Allies bazar in Chicago
last week for $1,000 This was men-
toned.
An have little boy blue OF my
own at home he said, referring TO
his son.
A Human Being"
Mccormack is like 10 other gr'
singer. You sit dc-yl m talk TO
him and he "jollies" You along and
acts Just like d human icing. Ele
mentioned receiving all invitation to
attend a Prize fight i ST. Paul. .
"G'll 60 if VIC act time" he Sd :
Might sec good scrap. I'm gong
over here to this theatcr across the
street this afternoon. see they have
ME old fri'nd, Douglas Fairbanks
there. That's the boy nat knocl.
en- down, We always sec good
scrap in his pictures
And so ohm ratified on. After ter
minutes conversation with him the
reporter wouldn't think of calling him
Mr.. Mccormack. He's just John. II
is said his audience feel the same way
after he has sung three or toul
songs.
lie walked with the reporter to The
door and told a couple OF tuniH
stories, and even sang trill anc
danced a+ound The room 10 the tune
OF a song someone lad sent him witt
the request that he>sing i.
ITS 4 divvll Of a good chune,' he
said, but the wor-ruds are crime.
Big Seat Sale.
So great has been the demand fol
81 seats for the Mccormack recital
the fourth number Of the retailers
concert course, that the local man
agement has decided to place lin
tied number of general admissions OF
sale Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock a
81 each. These admissions are fo
reserved seats at the rear of the regu
lar sections
The curtain will rise promptly a
Sis and those not seated will have t.
wait until the end OF the first number