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paveRS TELL OF FUNNY EXPER ENCES THEY HAVE HAD.

En ¢ Tpon Actors of Interruptions From

The Man Who Sneezed.

the Audience

May irwin and “The Widow Jones.’

Wanted Barr NicIntosh to “Soak Him.”

. almoet ae Players are affected almost as deeply

py bappemngs 12 the audience as is the sndience by happenings on tho stace. sometimes they are moved to wrath, but more frequently to langhter. Occasion- lly they are frightened out of their lines.

A man sat in an aisle seat, three rows from the front, at a pe rformance of ‘‘ El Capitan’’ the other night. He was a fat man, end he gave a sneeze suddenly—a werrific sneeze. It was followed by an- other that shook the plumes on the big hats of the women around and made the lights flicker. The audience suspended attention and locked at the sneezer, and the players paused juct as he saorted out a third sneeze that ended in a high pote such as seldom had been heard in those parts, though the Metropolitan Opera House is near by. El Capitan stretched out his long aems toward the man, rolled his big eyes heavenward | and said in a sepulchral voice:

“Heaven bless you, sir.’’

This brought the audience back to the stage with a roar, and in a second the performance was running on at high pressure, while the fat man chuckled over the fact that fora brief space he pad been the star of the evening. A‘few minutes later a Sun reporter asked Mr. Hopper how he was affected by the funny things that happen in the audi- ence, After getting a grip on El Capi- tan’s nose and throwing down a cup of hot coffee, as he does between acts, he auswered:

“American audiences are not demon- trative, and as a rule things don’t hap- prin front. Of course the man who meezed tonight couldn’t help it, but he wade such a blasting success of it that om itaffected the whole house and there- ® faethe players. If an actor is playing apart where he can say something, it is the best thing todo, for it makes them aliiangh and keeps them from noticing 4 pause, ’’

May Irwin is an actress with whom ren metropolitan audiences take liber- ties. “People have a habit of calling to me from the andience when they want mtosing a special song or to recite smething,’’ she said the other evening. “One night a men inthe bedy cf the honse called out to me to recite ‘Hia- witha.’ He took me off my feet for a minute. Icouldn’t remember a line of i, but Iealled back: ‘I will if you'll Myeme my cue. I’ve forgetten how it Marts,’ He gave me the first line, and I] thouted it for him.

“When I was playing the Widow

one night, during the kissing mene between Rice and myself a man thoated, ‘I'd like to be in your place, i Rice. I would.’ Rice and I were ith convulsed, and the audience roared.

n the piece is funny, it often adds the humorous situation for some one i front to do something unusual.

I never shall forget an experience I while playing the Widow in Cin- nnati, though of course it ien’t art for actor to see. anything that goes on in

tor to recognize anybody in the au- tence, and I never do—I don’t think. pe night, as I was saying, in the city

ers and beer, I noticed the queer-

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est iooxing o!:a Woman aown in trons. She looked like afarmer’s wife, and she kept peering up at me over her glasses. She didn’t laugh once, and in all my life I never saw a human being takea play so seriously. She was with another woman who wasequally serious. Final- ly the old woman jumped up and, peer- ing at me over her glasses and shaking

her finger in my face, said, with a rasp- |

ing, western twang:

‘* *Weil, you don’t look one bit like her.’

‘IT was fiustered, but I managed to gasp:

** ‘Like whom?’

‘**Like the Widow Jones,’ she an- Bwered.

***Well, Iam,’ said I.

‘**f don’t believe a word you're say- in,’ said she, ‘for I know’d the Widow Jones and her husban’ nigh on to 20 years ago. I stood up with ’em when they was hitched, and you don’t look like her. She went off from these parts, and I heerd she was a widow and that Jones was dead, and then I heerd she was at this the-ater, and I cum tosee. Youain’t the Widow Jones, and I just want to say one thing more—I don’t see how you dare to take other people’s names and use ‘em.’

‘*With that she flounced out, but the next day when I appeared at a rehearsal she wason hand to give me another blast. I explained to her how it was. She'd never seen a play before and had come 20 miles to see her old friend, the Widow Jones. There was a time when such things frightened the life out of me, but I’ve learned to turn them to good account. ”’

Perhaps there is not another man on the stage so phlegmatic as Burr McIn- tosh .during unusual occurrences in front. He lays his coolmess all to the training he got on the football field when he was at Princeton.

‘*I find more unexpected things hap- pen on the stage than in the audience, ’’ said Mr. McIntosh. ‘‘However, the first night we opened in ‘At Piney Ridge’ I got a piece of advice from the front. I said to the villain, ‘You lef’ the colo- ne!’s baby up thar, an you brung yo’ own down heah.’ And his lines follow: “You lie.’ I instantly make a movement as if to strike him; but, remembering that ladies are present, my arm drops to my side. A man in front.was so infuri-

alec witb the heartless villain that ne called out to me: ‘Soak him. Jack! Hit him a good one for hunk,’ and then he hissed like a mad gander.’’—New York Sun.

A Bible Sled. A friend of the Listener saw a funny sight down in Maine. At a place there,

which needn’t he named, there lives a ‘

small boy named Jonathan Longistiow, | To this the kaiser is said to have replied,

who is a third or fourth cousin of the poet, and he is a great boy too. One day this friend of the Listence was driving

past young Jonathan’s house and saw!

the boy engaged at a little distance in sliding down hill on the slippery crust on something that was notasled. What could it be?. Evidently the scrutiny of the passerby was observed by the boy, for he stopped his coasting and called out amiably, ‘‘I’m sliding down hill on the Bible.’’ And it was the fact too. He bad got the smooth, leather bound fam- ily Bible, containing the generations of all the Longfellows, and was coasting on it with magnificent success. —Boston Transcript.

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Roxina Rakestraw—Oh! Why, that must be for folks that have this here bicycle craze that we’ve been readin about.—Brooklyn Life. |

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There was a touching exchange of compliments the other day between Em- peror William and the Russian painter Verestchagin, whose works are now on exhibition in Berlin. The kaiser went to the gallery and’ was gracious enough to remind the artist that they had met before. ‘‘Yes, your majesty,’’ replied Verestchagin, ‘‘and then you were only ‘highness,’ but now you are ‘majesty.’ ’’

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Perturbed Parent— Who has eaten the cake in the pantry?

Undaunted Infant—I did.

P. P.—And what did you do that for?

U. I.—I heard you tell Jane always to keep the cupboard shut. Yesterday she forgot, so I thought I would punish her by eating all the cakes.—Pearson’s Weekly.

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Out of 60 arbitration tredties among the nations of the world since 1815 the United States has borne a part in 32, far more than any other nation.—Bos- ton Globe,

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