Life — February 24, 1887 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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WHO IS SHAKESPEARE? A STORY was told me to-day by one who is a force in Colorado politics, on ex-Senator Tabor, almost as interesting as the night- gown story told on Colorado's ex-legislator, when he was filling some- Body's unexpired term in the Senate. The fame of Tabor’s Opera House at Denver is world-wide, and when Mr. Tabor determined to | build a theatre at Leadville he announced that he would have one built that would make his former effort at Denver look like a shed. He loudly asserted that he would knock the earth out, especially in the decorations, in the Leadville home of Thespis. He sent to Italy for the decorator, and did not go inside the Leadville structure until the Italian sent him word that he would like his opinion, Mr. Tabor went in company with the artist, and, after careful scrutiny, expressed him- self as quite satisfied. “But tell me,” quoth Mr. Tabor, “what man you are making famous by putting his portrait up there ?” “Why, that is a very true presentment of Shakespeare,” replied | the artist. ‘* Who is he ?” asked the ex-miner. ‘“Why, the great dramatist, of course, and not only the greatest playwright, but the greatest bard as well.” “Well, lhe may have been a big fellow, but I never heard that he did much for Leadville. Just paint him out of that and paint me in.” And Mr. Tabor’s portrait overlooks the auditorium.—Zx. ‘Is it possible to teach girls how to whistle?” asks an exchange. It is, if you will only leave them alone after they get their lips puckered up.—Burlington Free Press. 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