Life — October 25, 1900 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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TO “MRS. T. SANOYS On the Occasion of Her Recovery from an Attack of Forgetfulness, Dear Grizel : We bave felt for months, Since Barrle got so hazy With sentimental tommy rot, That some one would go crazy. While James M. went his league-long way Elaborating matter, He had bis readers growing mad As vacuous Aaron Latta, In your unselfish way you've saved Brain-weary, dazed humanity ; Your sad attack of * Alice” was Vicarious Insanity. Rellef’s in sight for all of us, With Joy we'll aye remember That line that rings the knell of Sandys : “Concluded tn November. —New York Evening Sun DOOLEY ON THE STAGE + Plays ts upside down, Hinntsay, an’ inside out. They begin with @ full statement tv what's goto’ to happen an* how It’s goln' to come out,an thin ye're asked to forget what ye heerd an’ be surprised be tht outcome. I always feel like goin’ to th’ office an’ gettin’ me money or me Iitho- graph pass back afther th frat act “Th way to write a play Is fr to take @ book an’ write It over hind end foremost, They're puttin’ all books on th’ stage nowadays, Fox's ‘Book lv Martyrs’ has been done Into @ three-act farce-comedy, an'll be projooced be Della Fox, th’ author, nex’ summer, Webster's ‘Onabridge Ditchnry* will be brought out as a society dhrama with elght bundhred thousan’ char-ackters, Th’ ‘Constitution tv th’ United States * (a farce) be Willum McKinley ts runnin’ to packed houses, with th’ cillybrated tradeejan Aggynaldoo as th’ villain, In th’ sixteenth scene tv th’ last act they’se & naygur lyncbin’, James I, Wilson, th’ author tv ‘Silo an’ Enstlage, & story fr boys.’is dbramatizin’ his cillybrated wurruk an’ will follow it with a dhramatic version lv ‘Sugar- Beet Culture,’ a farm play. ‘Th’ Familiar Lies tv Lt Hung Chang * 1s expicted to do well tn th’ provinces, an’ Hostetter's. Almanac has all dates filled. J undherstand th’ Bible Il be ready f'r th stage undher th’ direction tv Elnstein an’ Opperman befure th’ first tv th’ year, Some changes have been niclss'ry fr to adapt it to stage purposes, I see be th’ pa-apers, Th’ authors have become convinced that Adam an’ Eve must be carrid through th’ whole play, so they have considerably lessened th’ time between th’ creation an‘ th’ flood an’ have made Adam an Engtish nobleman with a shady past, an’ the Divvie a Fr-rinch count in love with Eve. They're rescued be Noah, th’ faithful boatman, who has» comic naygur son."—£. P. Dunne in Harper's Weekly. (Copyright, 190, by Robert Howard Russell.) Samcet Saoxrnipae entertained Paderewak! at a supper Jn bis rooms to the Palace Hotel one night, and Invited a dozen congenial souls to partake of the harmonious feast. Paderewski doesn't play for every body — unless everybody has the price—but Shortridge was his very dear friend, and ‘as # token of his distinguished appreciation of that friendship the great plantst gractously signified that he would be pleased to favor not only Mr. Shortridge, but any friends whom Mr. Shortridge might care to tovite. Mr. Shortridge carec. to tnvite the aforesaid dozen, and the dozen opened {ts twenty- four ears to the fullest when, after the wine, Paderewskt seated himself at the keys and begun his own fainous minuet, Indeed, one of the dozen gave such rapt attention to his ears that he forgot his hands, and allowed one of them to steal {nto his trousers’ pocket and fall to caressing sundry coins that reposed therein, Suddenly Paderewskt stopped as though the plano had broken Its string-board. The Jingte of coin bad penetrated into the harmony of the minuet, and the minuetist had heard tt. He wheeled about flercely, grew Ted In the face, and plumped his hands down hard upon bis knees. Wat!" he cried, transfixing the luckless geatlemss with the coin. “ W'at! Do you (ink I play for monury >” The gentleman with the coln had to be ussisted to dis feet as he rose to apologize, and Mr. Shortridge explained to the shocked virtuoso that the Jingling of coin In the poctets 1s only an American way of testifying pleasure tn a free entertainment—or something to that effect. — News-Letter, Arnoros of the trouble the Sbah is causing at Ostend, « story ts being told by the Helgian Times of the first vist of Nasr-ed-Din, the father of the present monarch, to the King of the Belgians at the Chateau de Laeken. When he saw the Queen, surrounded by her ladies-in-watting, the Shab said to the King: “ Your harem, sire?" ‘The question took the King so much by surprise that be did not for a moment reply, and the Shab, taking his sllence for consent, looked critically along the line und added, mildly but decidedly : You will have to renew It."— London Expres. “Lave never done much toward pushing my discoveries before the public," sald the professor, ‘1 am content know that when soclety needs them they will be avatiatie” “But think of fame!" she exclaimed, admirtog!y “Think of baving your name on everyone's lips ; of havisg your pictare in all the newspapers !"" “ My dear madam,” he answered, with a sbade of severty, “1am nelther @ jockey nor # prize-fighter.” — Washington Sar. For sale by all sdealers in Great Britain. The Inter- national News Company, Bream’s Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England, AGENTS. ECRorea’ AGrNTs—Measrs. Brentano, ‘37 Avenue del'Opera, Paris, Established 1823. 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