The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1898, Page 18

1 GOOD STORIES OF T Blanche Bates, Mrs, Fannie Young, F all the professiors that of the stage is the most prolific of reminiscences, and of all the world the actors are the very best story- tellers. They liva in the emotional world and their abundance of good nature, natural wit and art of »ry make these inimitzble jokers the best of entertainers. They believe with the cynic that “lan- guage was invented but to conceal thoughts,” and that interpretation of character is not of words, bue rather of fe soul G gossip is tr.ditional, and when the arti; are “easy in their lines” they repair to this reminiscent chamber and revel in the stories of other days of strange mishaps and hard-up experiences en- when the “ghost refus-1 to walk.” t some of the very funniest things that they re- >cidents which frequently occur to sur- s and rob the audience of its illusion. but a hair's breadth between the sublime ind often in the most tragic scenes itrical interpretation the stage hoodoo has in- d surprising situations to provoke the house hter instead of tears. Here are some of their n-roc D S hit that ever I made in my’ life oc- raiia_when I was so little that I was not aware of my tremendous succes: My mother was, however, and so was the au- dience, Jikewise the manage- ment, for they had to ring down the curtain to re- store order. All’ that I know of it comes in a reminiscent way from my mother, who never hears the most romantic of Shakespearian dramas mentioned without feeling again the mortification of that ene of her young motherhood which was not intended for the public’s entertainment or pleasure. Our family history re- cords it, and I've no doubt of its truth, that at this particular period I was teething, that I was fretful and that I was unweaned. BLAN CHE BATES. (s The play was “Romeo and Juliet” and the stage was set for the balcony >. The nurse had kept me in the dre ng-room in the early part of the eveni jing that I could not be quieted she was swed to bring me to my mother, who was n an improvi bench upon the balcony, from the view of the house by a vine- wall. lience was intensely interested In Romeo’s his romantic love, which came to a most unexpected r. Either the unusually carele or the “‘super” the railing was exceedingly bility both—be that as it may cony came tumbling down, dis- a most incongruous stage effect. There sat the “fair shy Jullet” with her baby at her breast, while the love-lorn Romeo had to cut his scene, for the audience howled and howled until the curtain came down. Moreover it was impossible to bring the audience back to pathos and tragedy for that night was turned into comedy. I have frequently had to suddenly recover from & fainting fit or death scene to walk off the stage—"if the man on the curtain happened to go to sleep”—but about the funniest thing that ever occurred while for the curtain to go down happened up north st Word” performance. the scene closed by a piano recital of The curtain stuck and Mr. Frawley told walk off the stage. We all walked off except and I frantically beckoned him to come off. Nated wildly, thinking he had not heard Mr. and soon had an answer from poor delivered in an awful stage whisper, “Stop n’s play down front and I'll come off.” piano was a dummy and the orchestra plan- urnishing the music. It was very funny and enjoyed the joke hugely. e climax i st who stu ber a performance in Australia a great rs ago when an accident robbed the scene S of all its pathos and com- pletely destroyed any iliusion that we tried to portray for = the remainder of the evening. s playing the part of a heroic mother who herself from her young baby while she went r some wounded soldiers. The scene was very and my efforts were calculated to wring tears rom the audience, I held the bab (which was a doll baby) in my and after k ng it I exclaimed, as I put it in of a trusted servant, “Keep my child—to would I entrust my little daughter.” ng must have been stronger physically than , for as I placed the baby in his arms i off and rolled down to the foot- This broke us all up and the house went wild. e, I reme MRS. FANNIE YOUNG.| In the vear 1867, while leading man at the “Old Crosby Opera-house” in Chicago, I suffered the most = s 5 ‘ humiliating mistake of my | feKEE Kl whole stage career. Even | McKEE RANKIN vet, as I look back through Lo ! the ‘vista of year: I feel again a shrinking of my stature, figuratively speak- he memory of that night of nights. 2t had put on the spectacular per- dine,” and I was cast for the part of knight. My costume was superb—black If the play had been pro- the tights and plumes galore. duced as it was written I would have been discovered ©0000000000000000 000VO000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 gallant QUEER CONDITION REACHED BY HIGH EXPLOSIVES: ' decorated. It would reem, in fact, that| nature is constantly engaged erating high explosives the quicker to | rectly against the iron. bring about changes whic! takes a long time to produce. fact these very queer compounds it may be well to describe a very beautiful expe- riment which was performed by fessor C. E. Munroe of Washington, D. Munroe placed a very HIS is an age of high explosives. | country trying to gain more insight into | A week hardly ever passes but | the mystery of the terrible compounds. What some new chemical com-| It is now asserted that the explosion | have @ome from their bodies. During pound of destrvction is dis- | Which recently occurred in the smoke- | the construction of the Sutro tunnel it covered. These are becoming less powder factory at Santa Cruz in- | was found that nearly every man in bt aud ‘hishes mo thatif| Riend of ibeingithe worl (Of o Hpanish the tunnel under certain conditions be- R e b spy, as at first supposed, was caused came a walking batfery which would s difficult to foresee what the end| by electric sparks generated by the | expiode every cartridge with which it will be. | bodtes of the workmen. Such a condi- | came into contact. Many of the explosives already known | tion Is quite possible. During the| In spite of every precaution explo- cate as to be valueless, Iodide | storms which of nitrogen cannot so much as be| touched with a feather. It is made by mixing the ingredients in alcohol and allowing it to dry. When it appears as a brown powder the slightest agitation | will cause it to explode violently. The power of this chemical is almost beyond A pound of it could lay all of isco in ruins, but, fortunately, are so of fifty miles of the dust person would attempt to produce it, for to do so would be suicide. The study of high explosives dates back only bout ten years, but it is gradually g g In importance and experimenters are at work all over the der. In this Conte made true. |FIPRESSTON OF LETTERS AND LEAVES MADE BY EXPLOSION OF DISCS OF GUN (OTTON ON SLAB 2. The explosion. 3. Per- fect impression of leaf left on slab. 4. Letters U.S. cut in a disk of guncotton and the reverse lettering as result of explosion on iron slab. 1. Piacing guncotton on leaf. eling, which is the silent language of the - Paclfic Coast the winds reach a velocity midity gets as low as 15 per cent. fessor Le Conte found that the friction | of the wind against the clothing of per- | sons developed electricity to the extent | of producing sparks half an inch long. | The phenomenon is quite apparent in | the manes and tails of horses. This at-| mospheric electricity has been respon- | sible for several explosions. which flies about powder works are frequent, and they always precede the true explosion of the pow- cerning explosions, all of which came Elizabeth Saunders. Georgia Wells. in the first scene by nymphs, but my costume was S0 stunning that it was thought best for me to make an entrance instead. At this time I was drawing a very good salary, and with the overstocked vanity that is _sometimes for- given in the exuberance of youth, I made my en- trance. Oh, what a reception that was! I have never seen its like. The house was packed. It was the -first night, and the audience seemed to go wild with de- light at seeing me. Ladies waved their handkerchiefs and men stamped the floor in their great enthu- siasm. 1 was overwhelmed, and thought, “Great heavens! What a fool I am that I did not strike the manager for double my salary. Why, I am a great thing for the house.” I was revolving in my mind just how much of a raise I should ask for, while I bowed and bowed my acknowledgment of the tremendous reception. During the tumultuous uproar I decided I had bet- ter make them a speech to satisfy them a bit, and in bowing again to my right I happened to see the cause of the demonstration. There in the box stood “Little Phil” Sheridan, bow- ing his compliments to the people, while I had been taking it all to myself. Feeling like an idiot, T walked off the stage, and soon after, when I had quite a speech to make in my lines, I was greeted with such laughter and gibes from the house that I was almost exasperated in my embarrassment. Before the night was over, however, I had won their sympathy and respect by my good work, else I suppose I would not have slept that night in my mortification. . oo While my partner and I were taking a company Oregon we were particularly requested to ERE play “East Lynn” We - | were all up in the play, JAMES. M. BROPHY. | put had no child to play Wil- | le. The editor suggested that his child might po bly speak the lines, whose offer we did not refuse, for we knew we could depend upon good press notices. The child was very bright, indeed, and the next evening we were ready to ring up on “East Lynne.” Suddenly a messenger rushed in with the news that the child was {1l -and could not play. We were aghast. How could we pla ‘East Lynne” without a child!. The house was packed and ladies plentifully supplied with handkerchiefs to weep over Isabel's woe. A change of bill would not be accepted and the com- pany were prepared to wash up and go home. This meant the loss of the entire night’s receipts. In desperation 1 said “Go ahead; ring up.” 1 was playing Archibald Carlyle. We cut the first hut it was absolutely necessary scene the child ha h ne. 1 placed the child’s bed to have his de; L. R. Stockwell. Clay Clement. directly across the stage and drew a long white spread close to the floor. We hastily improvised a rag baby and placed it in the bed. Isabel (Mme. Vine) kneit between the bed and the audience and I stretched myself full length behind the bed, being completely concealed from view in front. The company hugged the “wings” convulsed with laugmx. The curtain went up. ‘Willie opens the scene and so in the most infantile veice that I could command I squeaked out “Mme. Vine, how long do you think it will be before I die?” The company were in hysterics, but the scene con- tinued with the usual sobs from the audience while %)s%bel frantically embraced the bundle of rags in the ed. The curtain fell amid storms of applause. We sent Isobel out; she bowed and bowed, but they called out “The child; bring out the child.” That was a stunner. We seized the janitor’s child, who was colored, and covering his face Isabel bowed again to the weeping audience with the child in her arms. This was my first and last performance as a child actor. g e I was down South playing in “The Bells” when I encountered my worst stage predicament. As usual 7 in those one-night stops we naturally expect some little drawback; but this disturb- ) ance was. quite unexpected and we had to make the best of it. It was in the storm scehe and the situation in which I always got the “biggest hand.” This theater wag not very well provided with mechanical appli- ances and when the thunder pealed out it was simply deafening. The house couldn’t hear a word and it was my very strongest scene. The actor who was on with me at my earnest com- mands of louder! louder! shouted himself hoarse, and 1, knowing that my voice would not carry across the footlights, just pantomimed and gesticulated without saying a word. Of course I moved my lips and, strange to say, got the same “hand” from the packed house that I always expected at this scene. The property men came in for their share after the cur- tain went down and the next night the thunderous elements were consptc:\ous by their mild rumblings. e CLAY CLEMENT. The most trying time In my stage career occurred shortly after making my debut, and as is always the — case when trying to feel an emotional part, the least lit- tle thing of an amusing na- b ) ture is enough to set a silly girl to giggling; so it did me. The play was the military drama, “Fort Bliss.” In my lines I was pleading for the life of my brother- in-law, of whom I was very fond, and who was un- GEORGIA WELLS. SPANISH VIEW OF THE ! Waiter McKinley—Fried eggs! Fried Eges! Sag P Walter—Well, sir, you have the choice of eating fried eggs or refusing them. Human beings often sometimes prevail on the factories. Some of them have while the hu- Pro- | an hour, ually. permitted to drain dinary manner. away in rience of one factory. Explosions | over a sandy beach into the connection Professor ‘Le several predictions con- that point. ried the glycerine in solution THE SUICIDE OF A FLY EDISONS EXPLOSIVE THAT GOES OFF WHEN SHOUTED AT have caused great explosions by the sparks which sions will take place in nitro-glycerine | under the oddest of circumstances. the compound Is very sensitive and as it readily decomposes at 100 degrees Fahrenheit it has to be washed contin- At first the waste water was But such a proceeding is no longer allowable after the expe- The works In question were situated beside a river, and the water was allowed to run away One hot summer day red fume3 were observed to issue from the sands and soon afterward the beach blew up at The waste water had car- REMAINS UNDAMAGED INTO FRAGMENTS et PARIS PEACE COMMISSION. g i Fried eggs! fa—But, my dear sir, when there is nothing but fried eggs on the menu, what cholce have 1? ~Neuvo Mondo, a Barcelona comic. posited it In the sand, where finally the heat exploded it. At another factory the water was al- lowed to run into a ditch. ‘It was dis- covered in the course of time that the glycerine had become deposited in large quantities in the fissures of the neigh- boring rocks. The ditch was then/ dammed so as to cover the rocks with | water. Several years afterward the | ditch was struck by lightning and in| the explosion which resulted buildings | were destroyed and huge masses uri rock were hurled ereat distances. In the Pembrey works in Wales the waste water is allowed to drain into a pond which is torpedoed each week in order to preclude the possibility of ae- cident. Among the most prominent explosives are -ordite, the British smokeless pow- | der invented by Sir F. A. Abel and Pro- fessor Dewar; French smokeless pow der, the vielle poudre of the Lebel rifl rifieite, which is used in the Lee-Met- ford gun, and in the Martini-Henry rifle; ryzximite, the compound which Hudson Maxim invented; emmensite, ite, which occurred As erates the or- tion. stream. i | have and de- STON ONA DAY EXPLOSION ON WET CRYSTAL CRYSTAL WHICH WHICH IS SHATTERED United States tests; tonite French melenite, and last, the new ter- rible compound, lyddite. made of is a secret, but the inventor asserts that handle and that one pound of it can wreck the largest building in the world. This, remarkable in view of other flare-ups dust exploded for son in the Pullman'car shops and did considerable damage. lumbermen have thrown into the Cana- dian rivers from time and then to. the great peril of naviga- disastrously in a New York candy fac- tory. An explosion of finely powdered zinc wrecked a zinc works n Bethle- hem, Pa. Dust is constantly exploding in brew- eries, and two British warships, the Doterel and the Triumph, were blown up from the which proved so satisfactory under |in a paint with which they were being FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1898. HE7STAGE "BY "EEADIRG FLAYERD McKee Rankin. T. Dapiel Frawley. George E. Lask. Jjustly accused of a crime and sentenced to be hanged. My lover, with whom I was pleading, could not give me much hope. As I cried out in my despair, “Oh, don’t tell me that he will hang!” he sank into a seat in a sort of hopeless way, the springs gave way and he doubled up like a jack-knife. He looked so terribly surprised and so thoroughly uncomfortable that I was completely overcome with laughter. The spectators appreciated it and the im- pression of sisterly grief that I wished to leave with the audience was wholly lost and we just finished the scene with immoderal.e luughle.r. . Actors sometimes suffer excruciating agonies in trying to suppress laughter caused by mistakes that 7 occur in the best regulated theaters. I well remember an accident a few years ago L~ that not only disturbed the equilibrium of the players; provoked the mirth of the audience, but well nigh resulted in a broken arm for me. I was playing in Modjeska’s company and the play was “As You Like It.” I was cast for the part of Charles, the' wrestler, and the accident occurred in the wrestling scene, where Orlando throws Charles. By some trick of fate I was thrown on top of a trap door that opened and let me through like a rocket—catching on to the stage floor with my elbows, nearly paralyzing me. It was so unexpected and s0 sudden that Modjeska, who was sitting on the platform, pushed her chair too near the edge in her fit of uncontrolled laughter and tumbled over back- ward. The effect upon the house was, of course, howling and the 'cun.:=|n was soon rung down. el 8 ERNEST HASTINGS. I think about the worst accidental stage comedy in which I participated occurred a good many years 1 ago,in the Mme. Eugenie la Grande Company. We were playing in Canada and the play was ‘‘Camille.” The comedy in reality began on the journey across the river. We were very'late making the town owing to a railroad accident and arrived just in time to rush on to the boat, while the dray containing our trunks was driven aboard and stopped dangerously near the end of the boat. All went merrily, however, until about half-way across the ferry, when by a sudden lurch off went three of the trunks into the water. Luckily the handles were tied together with rope so they just swung under the edge of the boat. By taking up a collection among the company we got togdther $50 (no easy task), the price charged by the captain for picking up the floating stock. We were billed for a performance that night and with a depleted financial condition could not con- scientiously cancel the engagement, so as soon as the boat landed we proceeded to the theater and busied ourselves shaking out and pressing the damp folds of our wardrobe. There was neither time nor money for new clothes and so the curtain rang up upon the most dilapidated looking chromos it has ever been my lot to work with in a professional way. Some of the women wore shawls, but the men did nothing but shiver, and the ludicrous appearance of each member of that company made serious feeling an impossiz bility, and when any of us made our exits we lined up in the wings and thoroughly enjoyed the comedy to the discomfiture of those who were acting. A very funny thing happened not long ago in a vaudeville performance of ‘“‘Bootle’s Baby,” a scene sketch by Charles Stevens, the husband of Kate Clax- ton. There is a law in Chicago against babies appear- ing on the stage, and of course “Bootle's Baby” would be an impossibility without the baby, so it was advertided and the humane societies made up the biggest part of the audience. Stevens had to pay $90 to get a baby made at the wax works that just suited him, and it looked so natural that it resulted in the societies swearing out a warrant and the papers were served upon him. The next day when the case came up Stevens had to carry his doll baby down to the court to prove that it was no violation of the law and no cruelty to the wax figure to use it 1:1 h1§ pe);formance. \ SAM EDWARDS. I have had many queer experiences in my profes- gional career; unlooked-for situations not booked at SRR IS e S rfi{le“!lalts' p;ed}camerl]t? in- cidental to the forgetfulness L. R STOCKWELL. of the property man or the =3 o carelessness of the carpen- ter, but the funniest thing that I ever witnessed while on the stage occurred during the production of “Macbeth” at St. John, New Brunswick. We had some difficulty in getting a girl to take the part of the “apparition,” and finally obtained Hob- son’s choice in an Irish girl whose brogue was pro- nounced in conversation, but we hoped with much coaching to remedy that fault and were well satis- fied with her progress at the last rehearsal. But the night of the first performance that was the corker. 'As the “apparitign” she was strapped to the cage and sent up through the trap door. She got along well enough until she came to the lines “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Be bloody, bold and resolute,” and all of her previous coaching down of the Irish brogue was a lost art. She managed to roll*out in a full voice “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!” and in the same sepulchral tones said, “Let me down! Let me down! Let me down!” The audience not only roared, but it broke up the players as well, and the expression on her face was the funniest sight I ever witnessed. ‘Another thing happened at the same place about twenty-five years ago and was quite unexpected by both the actors and audience. “Old man Couldock,” Enown by the profession all over the United States, was playing the part of Louis in “Louis XL” On 000005000ooooooooooooooocoooocooooooo Ernest Hastings. James M. Brophy. Sam Edwards. the year previous to this performance this theater had a prompter by the name of John Brown. He stuttered so badly that often when an actor got lost in his part it took Brown so long to tell him where he was at that it became no easy task for the actor to catch on in a hurry. Upon the second oecasion of Couldock’s visit to St. John the following year the theater had a new prompter, a man named Williams, who was quite deaf. Well, the second act every- thing came to a ‘“dead stick”; not an actor remem- bered his lines. No amount of stage whispers could induce Williams to take his nose out of the book and he didn’t hear a thing, making the “wait” palpable to the audience and threw Couldock into a frenzy. Suddenly Couldock stepped to the footlights and said: “Ladies and gentlemen: Last year this house had a man for prompter who couldn’t speak; this vear they supply one who can't hear, and I suppose next year we will be furnished with one who can't see.” "Of course this speech brought down ‘the house and by that time Williams had thumbed over the pages and found the place. i e ce of the opera “Aida” in Phil- go I experienced one of those sudden drops of a highly emotional scene to that of burlesque. I was cast for SR the part of Rhadames, and s the one where Aida, the Ethiopian slave girl, pleads with her lover, Rhadames. I dow/t know whatever in the world possessed Aida to use grease paint for her make-up instead of the bolle- mania commonly used. But she did and when she threw her grease-painted arms about my _freshly laundried white blouse in the farewell scene I looked like a convict in my stripes. The funniest part of it all was that I did not know what had happened to make the audience laugh and was half inclined to be angry at their treatment. The infection of laughter soon spread to the stage and the curtain came down. GEORGE E. LASK. I think the most striking incident in the history of my stage mishaps took place in Salt Lake City e G during a production of “Richard IIL.” It was in the tent scene in the fifth act L | and I was playing the part of Richard. My horse had just been brought in and 1 called for my army. What was my surprise to see a little fellow who had been cast for the part of page walk in alone, burdened with swords and completely weighed down with trappings. I looked in the wings and not a soldier advanced. The truth at last dawned upon me. The supers and supermasters had gone on a strike at the last minute and the page had been gent in to represent Richard’s brave army. The whole thing was so absurd. My best lines were to be addressed to my army and the heroic speech began, “What shall I say more than I have inferred? Remember whom you are to cope withal.” The situation was so thoroughly ridiculous as I meas- ured the trembling boy from top to toe that I per- verted the lines into ‘You are a small army, but you will make a good fight.” 1 think the audience appreciated that farce more than the management after the curtain dropped, for the thermometer weat down with the curtain. T have heard Fred Ward tell an amusing account of his production of “Julius Caesar” up in Montana. They were at Helena at that time of the year when mosquitoes were of their biggest and hungriest stage; regular gallinippers, and .how that Roman army did suffer is best told in Ward’s own words. ‘‘Their uni- forms were abbreviated in length of - sleeves and trousers, and those mosquitoes didn’'t do a thing to them. Why, the soldiers wriggled and slapped first one shoulder and then another; twisted and rubbed their legs together until the army lost all dignity and the ‘house’ all disposition to take the play seriously.” All of the old-time performers will remember the first season that brought Mary Anderson to this coast. John McCullough was playing Claude Melnotte to her Pauline in the “Lady of Lyons.” She was at that time about eighteen years of age and her tall, ungainly figure completely overshadowed McCullough in height. In the fourth act, where the widow says, “No di- vorce can separate a mother from her son,” the heart of the proud Pauline is touched, and she exclaims, “Claude, take me.” Melnotte holds out his arms s: ing, “This is the heaviest.blow of all,” and then cam the catastrophe, for as Pauline rushed into Melnotte's arms she tripped and both McCullough and Mary Anderson fel? to the floor. That fall made a hit to the audience and the applause was so deafening that the curtain had to be rung down. * o " At the old Chestnut street Theater in Philadelphia a very amusing mistake was made during the pro- T. DANIEL FRAWLEY. B very A g T —— duction of “Virginius” at a MRS. ELIZABETH | Schcfit tendered to M. SAUNDERS, Cooper, the great actor who |__Cousin of Joseph Jeffeson. | gt this time played the part of Virginius. Sheridan Knowles, the author of this beautiful drama, was cast for Icilius, the young Jover, and I was playing Servia, nurse to Virginius. I was very young at this time, and my extremely youthful appearance was the main factor in causing the young lover’s grievous blunder. In the forum scene Icilius rushed on the stage ex- claiming, “Virginia, my dearest Virginia!” and ere I was aware he had clasped me—Servia, the old nurse— in his arms, instead of his sweetheart, Virginia. Of course we all felt like laughing and could not control our desire to do so. His excuse was that I looked so young for the nurse that he thought I was Virginia. 0000000000000 000000CO0 Exploded by the Human Voice. indurite, cannon- ballistite, the terrible ‘What this is it is absolutely safe to As a final queer however, can hardly be called have occurred. Common saw-|C. Professor me unknown rea- Sawdust, which | and exploded it. t. time, gen- gas, which explodes every now | of the leaf. A quantity of starch exploded Several explosions of flour occurred in Minneapolis mills. explosive action of a dryer EXPLOSION OF A_BEACH IN WHICH CERTAIN CHEMICALS HAF RA F ROM_A FACTORY small tree leaf on a slab of iron. the leaf he placed a disk of guncotton ‘When the iron was | again examined it was found to have indented in its surface a perfect image | Every vein was clearly | discernible, and the whole thing ap- peared to be the work of some expert engraver. A disk of guncotton in which the letters U. S. were cut was next laid face downward on the iron and explod- ed. The letters U. S. reversed wereafter- ward found to be outlined perfectly in the iron. Very little reason seems to be advanced for this curious action. thought in the case of the letters that the guncotton being indented through- out their length has a greater distance | Exploded by a Fly. Exploded by the Wind. Exploded by a Heavy Step for bombardment at that point than at the parts where the guncotton rests di- At any rate, h she usually | the experiment is a beautiful one, and in right hands may pn\nlt the way to | another method of utilizing the won- concerning | 805 “\ower of high explosives. The war with Spain has been most Pro- | significant as far as high explosives are \(‘!)nvprned, It has forever demonstrat- ed the inutility of the old black pris- On | matic powder in modern practice. The | smoke of the distant battlefield can no longer figure as a thrilling spectacle by painter and poet. Smokeless pow- der will be used exclusively hereafter by the great powers. Our Government was quick to note the superiority over the old explosive agent, and placed its | convictions on record by ordering one million pounds of the material to fill the magazines of our forts and war- ships. So we have passed almost at a jump into the smokeless stage of our military existence. —_—————————— 1t is estimated that more than four- fifths of the Peoplo in London never en- ter a place of worship. in gen- | It is | LYNDITE COULD WHATONE POUND ~ OF 00 TO. THE CiTY HALL