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This page from *Life* magazine combines entertainment journalism with period advertising. The main content features actress **Clara Morris** recounting an embarrassing theatrical mishap involving a parrot prop during a New York production of "Camille." The anecdote—about frantically substituting celery for a missing rose during a crucial scene—illustrates how actors must improvise under pressure. The accompanying illustration shows two men in conversation, likely depicting the "First Philosopher" and "Second Philosopher" exchange at the page's bottom, where they discuss whether human efforts "amount to anything or not." The page also includes period advertisements for **Wilson Whiskey**, **Evans' Ale**, and **Esterbrook's Steel Pens**—typical products marketed in early 20th-century *Life*. A separate anecdote about Bishop Ellison Capers praising patience rounds out the content. The humor relies on recognizing these public figures and appreciating theatrical mishaps as relatable entertainment.

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time I saw Mrs. Le Moyne break down. She left the stage in a hurry, while the curtain was rung dow and the audience laughed itself into hysteria."~ Francisco Chronicle. THE EASIEST Way, Sleeper, the Santa Fé stage driver, wers qu A ROSE BY ANOTHER NAME energy into her part that she was capable of, sbe =o o + th : ul Fé tage driver, answers ques: tked up to the parrot and spoke a few words to tions fsecly and gives the passengers a good deal of information that is not called for by their tickets. A In the long and amusing chronicle of ¢ x contretemps none is ludicrous than sc which once forced itself into the stage experiences of Clara Morris. It happened years ago, during a New York run of “C but it was so far from the sort of th Morris still loves to tell the story, usually prefacing it him, Generally the bird would be so astonished at | : his strange surroundings that he never uttered a word nervous old lady was riding down a dangerous took during the scene, but this one had been obtained in g trail with once, when she noticed a hatche snd wag used: tacetrange-sighia “‘Tlevwaiched lying in the bottom of the stage and inquired why he carried it “I use the hatchet to knock injured passengers the head,” replied Mr. Steeper. The old Indy d with astonishment and dre away from him to the other end of the s Sleeper leaned over toward her, a g that is casily forgotten that Miss with: ‘Somewhere in the wide, wide world, there is an actor—and a good actor—who can never cat celery without thinking of hen she explains “In the first sce as you remember, dential whisper explained trmand takes a rose is mistress as a love-token. “We have a good many accidents on line. The stage’s all in’ over and roll precipices, and every tin passenger gits hu sues the ce y for damages. These here dam or something for a substitute; the streng suits uscs up all the profits of stagin’, and we've h: to stop ‘cm, so every driver carries a hatchet. When a passenger gits hurt we sim only possible someth , , c head ond at this partic night, just before we reached that point, I suddenly missed the Mower from its accus tomed place on my breast. I had to have the blossom scene hung on it. As I talked my lines I hunted the ¢ with eager eyes, hrow the hody over a preci the dinner-table of the there ain't no law-s See ?"—Chicago Herald. “Any port ina storm. I moved over to the table; } I twisted the celery tops into a tight bunch; and I HE WAS PATIENT. Began the words: ‘Take thig flower. If held ai Bishop Ellison Capers, in an address at Columbss caressed it will fade in an evening. I S. C., pransed the virtue of patience. “Armand rose to the occasion, for “We may have industry,” he said, “sobriety, « II the virtucs that make for success; and yct without patience we will accomplish nothing. control himself long enous reply a co bit scentless flower. It is a strange flower “And I thoroughly ed with him! “A young man was overheard on a street co Weekly the other n reproaching a young girl, That you: man was patient. He had so highly developed tl excellent quality that T shall not be surprised some day to sce him a millionaire, a college president, or “Twas a member of ‘\ Lesson for Hush: Ethel Barrymore players, “and a funny incident took First Philosopher: \ SOMBTIMES WONDER WHETHER OUR even a bishop. place in of the Eastern towns. In one sce: £ RYVOKTS AMOUNT TU ANYTHING O& NOT. The young n said, as the young girl drew parrot was need a 1 have been diffic t Sreond Philesopher : W¥tty HAVE YOU RVER STOPPED Aim, on the corner: CONSIDER THAT IF THEY DID, WE WOULDN'T BE PHILOSOPHERS ? “* What a time you have kept me wait itp dhe advance 8 i simply: im The girl tossed her bead is only 7 o'clock,’ she sai parrot Hi ing the scene where everything with interest, and as Mrs. Le Moyne went promise to be kere till a quarter of.’ the b s bro up to him and said, ‘Well, Polly?’ the bird drew him “The young man smiled a calm and patient smile. on by the colored boy who is supposed to be the self up and answered in a voice loud enough to be yes,” he said, ‘but you have mistaken the ing lady's page. Mrs. Le Moyne was our s ard by the entire thea: with every tone of ‘ iting for you since last even: That was the only for us f f us we 0 Teave it possible to fi a here there isn't a ‘It during the scene, after throwing all the passic isgust: ‘Say, you go to Lire is published every Thursday, $5.00 a year ia adv be returned unless accompanied by stamped and ad- foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04.a year extra. Sing 1 cents. Back numbers, after thr months fri date of public. Live is fo bya sdealers in Great Britain. ‘The International News Ore EU CUeh tea Ball Ae tte Ce retraced Company, Chancery Lane, London, E.C., } GENT Prompt notification be sent by subscribers of any of address. Have youever observed what |[f——“i_OC— hale and hearty men Ale- drinkers are,as a rule? 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