The evening world. Newspaper, October 13, 1906, Page 11

Daily Magaz ‘LMONICO’S is a very fair-to-middlin’ tavern nvhere usually every- thing is as it should be. You may order anything from ham and eggs to nightlogales’ tongues without causing the cook wo cry for help. Ordinarily the kitchen {s equal to any emergency. But for once it proved disappointing by failing to trot out The Fatted | Galt ax a proper accompaniment to what its Gietinguished and ‘hungry | tron, Mr. Nat C. Goodwin, described as ‘The Story of the Prodigal Son." | ‘he beast {u the etchings which grace this scholarly essay 1s, it should | pe explained, the yoluntary, contribution of the artist. ‘The timid-are assured | that {t doesn't browse about the tables at ‘‘Del's.” | “It's very pleisant, of course, to be-weicomed back Into the fold by | the kind-heatted oritics,” sald Mr: Goodwin over his scrambled eggs, “but, I wish to register my protest—that’a the acceped form, isn’t it?—against the Toast, strayed or stolen notion -as-apriied-to-me,_Believeme,t-havent- just found myself again. I’ve been right with myself all tie ume ~~ —— There was a moment of écranibiug, and-then: “Although some people seam to think £0, "Tho Genius’ hasn't dragged | mo from the yawning gulf of disaster. Strange as it may sound to the | critiés, I hadn't lost my professional equilibrium, neititer had I jost all my money, playing serious roles. The simple truth the matter is that I havo : had only two fallures in’ twenty-niue years—"Beauty and the Barge’ and | Woliville. I was ‘violently opposed to appearing In both of those playa, tor F-could-see only failure ahead: You may remember that 1 didn't como ; on the stage In ‘Beauty and the Barge’ until the’curtain had beeh up for | tweniy-eight minutes. Before those twenty-elght minutes were over I said ty my servant: ‘John, the “Barge” is scuttled before I've even had x chance to get into ft.’ I had sat there in my dressing-room Mstening to that inde scribable sound;—-that, ominous suggestion of restlessness that marks a pls ag doomed, 1¢ is the sound you hear in-a court-room when an uneasy throng fs waiting forthe jury to come !n with a verdlet of guilty. The "Barge'; was sinking ‘There-wes nothing left for me (6 do but'¢o go down with her. You remember how quickly she sank.” “Yes, and J also remember how completely you sank your Identity,” I "ae ca fEFULOR UY PLA AMLET ON You Jus ever did tn this though the cvitics weren't ttustastic Bottom, Iw: business whe count , And} al wildly e The wailer smothered « jaugh with | is napkiu, “That fine oft actor, John Brough- am, once said to me: ‘Anybody that ng to. very good | A Midsummer Night's | “remarked by way of encouraging his lagging appetite. : Se igken-oft- 1 loarnod my « eaccaniauia jeltoreancesat= tani: “Anyone can do that with a set of false whiskers to help him along,” Shake hen I was'a boy, and | ye¢ Heat iburlesque fs the essence of he rejoined, with an ‘offhand flourish of tis fork. “'You'yd never, seen (1 tr: {t with human Intel- are and very often the critic who Coquelin come on with @ bunch of whiskers, have you? No; the really clever comedian can succeed without whiskers, That's why -I maintain that John Drew {s one of our greatest actors. He holds an audience by ous to pioneer, and I the sheer force of his personality. ‘That's acting of the most, dificult kind. | for being ‘too modern’ just becau In England Bey never lose eight of the Individual, and ifs tragedien Ways" ] didn't ‘spout. put I'm not th ys tragedy, he enhances his reputation. Here a I'm going to play Shylock again,” | Ug That, in the face of tradition. of course, was flying Its danger- } nvas criticised nce, speaks of an actor- burlesquing his part 15 unconsciously paying him a | great compliment. 1 once had a pe- © | culjar experience with a burlesaue of nea. Richelfeu’ that,T gave | City, Ney. After the performance I ~~ money than-any three or four of us put together.” little variety Th Dontontt's-e-geed—thing. I went! When?) | over there to find out whether T could act. Some of our-netors Nave gone {— 45 soon asd xe to a pl ~oyer there to-find out that they couldn't act’ _____ithey've never seen {t ~ ie: I mentioned one of our best-advertised artors who 18 wise enough to| Something Ijke. a smile filtted atay away from London. - {geroas the sad fac of the Ningfsh. “Reminds me of a story,” eald Geecwia stiles ata Praia “‘dingfist | ‘Where I made my mistake, “A erie named Knight was esking | ruminuted Nat, “was in starting | direction. that the walter had set before him, me about Him the lest time Iwas over there. He wanted to know what had) wrong. Tf T lad-wagun ty getting pexpect. “ become of him, ‘He's still {In the business,’ I told him, ‘and making more | my picture taken reading a book, lot- ‘Really!’ drawled Knignt, \ting my hair grow long and swearing podn-s-siodleating a where; where to see that fellow Goodwin; la ne? There he 1s," I didn't know what to | to shoot me. burlesque properly can give {n- Carson } ren & fierce-looking customer Ewunk { [into the place and sang out, ‘I want | sald the pro- | \prietor, sticking his thumb in my | towae-afratd. the fellow had | seen my performance and had:come | I smiled as smiably as | ine, ¢ladhad my picturelinej reading a book WHERE bo f Ne Ohat esi “Son. Nat Gicdoin” ww Dipak Gm Mii By Cha es Darnton “17 1S THE STORY. OF THE PRODIGAL SON” . j—s0 does Theodore Roosevelt—but if meet him. I'll. confess that I do ike to sea a good prize-fight occasionally I had been drinking and gambling all imy life I wouldn't be here to tell this story. No man can survive that sort of fe, and I'm no more than human, However, I was down in a place called “The Drumhead’ one. night when in walked the gentleman who war making. me the subject of his ploasant—little articles. When he was pointed out to me my friends tried to hold, me back. ‘Let me set- (Ue he iiatter Ta my own jeald-to-them,and 1 Marted for him, — He stemed feartully scared when 7 j#hook @ figer under his nose and jsald: ‘I want'to tell you that It you lever writs another pate here: I paused |words sink In—H flay you.’ He never abused ni The ¢ article about me, to let the Hamlet on gain,” a and brought out real. ‘Ive done alittle writing myself,"™ confessed the versatile Nat. "I wrote book, and it was a very "gaod, book, }too, “At any rate a tew of my friends — who. y {t were good enough to say 50, It waa ¢ book that actors, if no one—alae, ould be sure-to it eld a few things for the "nod jit wat D But en T showed jt to ‘the Roman Sen- tor sit jed= S incana: sett but burn It’ 1 took her adv Hye got H all he-e"—touching the dome of thought-y"and It going to write {teall over again one of thega days. } think, till lve retired from\the ha jore Uings to say by ile sf but I'm going to follow the pe Pets Vie teeess- “with other old successes. I'hi ‘em tn. Amd going. to there's a L little pathos in ft amen Tie ase? aT “saying to— |Nell O'Brien the other night. ‘What's jie use, when a song-and-dance team ia Hroddwiy Thedtresmida toothlac! * can make thousands of dol- Jars with his so-called plays? Don’t. a ‘What an extraordinary country!’” fa cape coat I should have {nstantly | poselble while the stranger looked} make ‘em Jaugh for more than threo When we'd hed our iene out ee atabbed the kingfish and} been recognized as a great-tragedian. ;me over, ‘When he had finished his enough!’ he exclaimed, making a Stark played him here!’ I inquired ,offensive articles about me. [didn’t vears or they'll never take yousgerl- went ont - Be | But es fs 1 sce no-reason “why 1 Inspection lhe sald: ‘I don't want to |closer scrutiny. ‘You've got Me eyes, about Jim and“Iearned that ho was a|mind what he sald about my acting— sly,’ I SUE eT ee eure: “utjuat- the sameT-Kuow that tye-yreat_Amertoan public pate onlite lshouldns play Shakespeare,_Now, | see 50u_ I want to eee your father— | Well, @lr,’ and he thre ; that—was—his-business—but when he” 1 Sree able to maké ‘om thinking-cap once {n a while. it's much more serfous minded than it's | there's Manafield—he gets away with | the féllow thet acted at the opera- | shoulders, “all I’ve got to y 'y came with the coffee, | patd that—t-spent—most_of_miy time as sare eld daa much funnier given credit for. The box-office tells the story. I played Shylocy for thir | {t—and he's a much funnier man huge to-night.’ ‘I'm, the fellow,’ I|1s that you're the best d Richelleu ‘A chap on one of the Chicago pa- drinking, gambling and going to man than I am,’* ty-five performances. to the biggest business that “The Merchant of Venice’ {than I am.” — told him, hoping for the best. ‘Bure | that this town has seen since Jim'pere had been writing a number of+ prize-fights, I felt a strong desire to And this was no joke. 5 G - 4 Pk etchsl ah ekal abatakatahataka FILSASLSASSLASSASAAA LAA AS ARES ESAS AE ALE OEE Bt EOF Ob OE Lot OE SE Bt Ot OF Ot oF EOE OE SEO ot Ot SEE OE OE OE Ot ot ot of of of ob | co Bees | May, Manion’ s Daily Fashions ¥ Romance - By Seward be : y i HIB 1s tho sea- Nb ri WY. Hopkins. | t/T ar Tite | N.Y. Fire Author of “ Night %& aprons are sure % Dep't : Stick and Nozzle.’ *| @ vs i semen: BI HO A AC EAE TAF AE EEE Ee 9A 8 EO TEE a LP CEE EERE KESSEL EERE EE EE EEE EE EEE ELE REE EEL EEE EEE EEE EE ORE REE coodingly pretty “ S more free from the! mass that held him. {he light f hh h feeb! onesie ees Sacre errenm areaiy “theah are parte ot w fireman's: Ws, = = | but tt_gumaed-to-ahow two” taces and | lon it ja made ot Theatre, Altuia” da Quesad yeni | not part of the education of a Young faeces i from what had) en] founcing-and se sunt = Mr. and | lady."* y : streaks, andthe glossy mar that | aa dainty as well 3 ie n “It must be a grand, a noble Iife" d been ‘so daintily dressed waa a | can be, The modal, | " auptenée acuinpeden Atetae 1 eo anid, i i however, is a thor- in ‘douerted re bright, and the wt oughly userul— one ~ ——feu.are in euch dlecomtort ‘q 53) a rene There aro times,” he answered. ‘when ft éems to rise to such a plan T_fancy wa are pretty. much | common stuf. I've seen boys who worthless dogs. ory fs heroism in erery mn he-scnorita. cumstances wonder’*—— Wii do-sou wonder? te uaiced, 25} [che heattates, | “SVhat Senor Batlender would @p in} | your ppsttion now.’ | "Who is Senor Bailendert” he asked, Oiinking that was what she wished him to dd. t _Sendt Ballender,” sie replied slowly, { if "Is one to whom the circumstances have not yet given an opportunity to be hero,"* There" Was someting 9 Doze hd somehow spared her lovely neck. Tho costly gown was merely @ ruin, with Dieck smears and rips destroying + even an attempt to classify tt | is preparing y 2 3 floseint Rigod way aan the two | thelr 1 mie pissiottated Into the-caTe fae: Reaned fnto nm comer., they, 9 Ao bythe fall not onty- soaked. fn the dirty | “bu thi re ut halt hidden “it—but-remains—fdt—ctr to jbring {it out. 1 CHAPTER Ti. A Match in the Dark. s; OR-a- moment they were _quict. Wesleo could just hear the ia preathing of the girl, and ao close was her {aoe to dife that her breath fanned bis chesk. “Hark!!' she whispered; ‘4s that not a trembling of the bullding, senor? /Paintly 40 Weslee's straining cars “there came & dully Sliost—tmpercepti= ble sounds “Tt might i bagn a biow} “eirack DICK O'KEE ‘This is the driver o! paved a carload, of pass by driving his pillar et Columbdy avenue and! inher —votoe | ttenty-thirt street: Nov- 16, 1k —Cape a. Bogineer eid ashs) _and the ine into an At the same timo there was a alight | tremor of thé flooring on which ho tay, 7 jj The auf] sound was repeated. aides he said, afterca a Lmomentary | } bat we shout together. We munt make them hear us If we can. heipe-wanor,’—a “iq hevecauch we Mftle -yolon”” “I have constderable voice, but It can |otn, ffor usta ®portionwhere—thegitl was -exegtme” Ang of axemen at work with half «|her wa efforts jaosen bosses bancling. ordere Il try. 1, moved,” be aatd,_toytully, uae i = He drew in Als breath and then the | ‘£9, OC leeat a ine” i Uttle space. was flied with @ great! y¢ was no light task. Sometimes {t/ ia Beamer to be™ utterly beyond ureter junited—sirengiti Pit ae the minutes [Ned, and lengthened into an hour, and ie had worked With all the eneray t—wrhich—they-were-capaile, thay ‘had line frame so far removed that Wesleo | hand Into the | | with her small bejowsiled hands the corner-ef-the pince that rested_on him. | Me, gathering nitty how wet 1 tu-tn-hare.—Thereseema-to-be no way for the water to run off. My feet povered. Will theplace fll, senor?" ree ras no evidence of fright in the Hatunal quesuon ets ‘Weslee know —the—water wae |- yising, Hie-had reason enough tp know: __ Hie waa lytitg full length in tt. 4*They wilt continue to -piey—on-the ping Ull every sperk of fre ts ext{n~ 1_folt | hh; on foot! rd ot Casey, In A. Gorman, acess $10 A DAY. Owes! Oires! aoe Herel SWesthe tt ‘The dark. chamber heverberated wi tho cry, sending deafening echoes or It -back to thelr ears. Splendid! They—wiould™ hear i bill v that |° Write -About-S: senor? In discomfort When T Ten piites Men on top of truck, ests 3 High Thomas Geehern, Joseph Roy-Parker: Prize Stories of Fire Heroes. e-Fireman= You Know and —Win-a- Prize. can be made THoox & Ladder Company N? 2 on—the—ground—jeft to - Ford, Gearga McKenna. $60 A WEEK. Brennan ‘Sechrest tet pm free to-move-and you ant-held-dorn ind injured? Why do you say sugh a \ to me? 1 am not uncomfortable, ¥enor, I wish I could share your pain.” *{ am not sure that I haye much pain Jo etzare,"’ was his reply. ‘It ts more of } Gull, ifetess senastion However, if boya keep at work they will soon ye uh out, Hark! I hear) them again. your” cj titings-togk like,"* | Ho drew from his pocket a safety | matchbox and struck a ight | An exchmation of surprise camo from:| the girl. “] did not think {t was so bad, nenor,” she gasped, ‘The placd they were in was not more than ten feet square, It was apparently ) ha awanted by-T! Evening Wo avery day: for the best stories of ho- role aeedx by fir men of) Great New York or els where. Stories murt true, eiving name. lovation of fire div hay did not hear,” he repeated bla call, Increasing tts/vol~ ume if thht were possible, They walt’ ed again. BUM all they heard was the Incessant pounding, and they felt the transmitted shock of the mighty blows. Aboye them, working away lke beay- ers, were Jack's comrades—engine boyn, These Prizes stow 7 | formed of two walle, making, a corner ag’ fancy I hear sounds, senor, but| WAates-tower: boys, hook and lndder és dates. ms pecan fC eeem to-feel | Crews. Wealee's friend, Licut, MoClin:| in 4 collar, and @ mass of debris that |} Stories must be ready more than, hear thes. it| tock, of Took and Ladder “8,” was| waa held suspended above them by afi im ited to 1¢ Nex : not Ott feet distant, though miles| heavy girder that had Just caught with | I. would ve better if nve only ted @ lisht."’ “We cor bay ight t¢ I could move." nid We “fin a pocket that } cay’ weach I have some matohes in } waterproof box, They are as much Food to us now as the candles on tho “pathedral altar, It would be better Jor us if we could see what kind of a [ene end a precarious hdid on a allght/ projection at the top of the wall, ‘4 Upon this tnaecuro resting place tho} 9,\.°"0°, Mheured and’ black beyond weight of tonsa of brick and fron lay, | recognition, His coat and shirt were walling but for @ allkht release to fall | torn and tumbled. and the black, drip, ping water caressed hin nec! y upon them and overwhelm them) PoURA ecu teeebats Wes, sone too Everything was wet, ond water still) tcraple pedieath hie oollar. banat Joame down in streams. It was biack,| "If we could in somewhere and |away so far ax communteation went. | And at McClintock's side other friend of Jack's in "18"—-Ed Paul, Joe Hetzel, Wit Cliftord, O'Connor and Moran, ‘These and many more. “If I could only get those matches," said Jack, “Atter dll, we may be In a place that would be easy enough to leave water, ah Weales. himself was no, cleaner, His place we are tn,” : i * if we knew’ how—andolt I, wan froe.'* ‘ jinove by, 'pleves, ald, Swe aight mt wlah, penor, we could move the! ty can yet the matches, senor — | after porvolating siren) the blackenod: | move: by, pleoeay MD ele athe ten: furden that is holding you down. It! v7 gout think you can. ‘Chey are | Masses above. ‘Then we\ might make them Aust be terrible to beheld there: It here: wea nothing: lr’ tho. shape of Peeks eaten you NORE, mer APS, PL CRM RQ UCC Ny oor window, :\ Miers’ was abaglitaly. will obey, ‘senor, You know what to now YOU hand into my pocket to get them, I¢ a ‘Only tell me, 4 terrible for, me just : no way to encipe save up through the} there." wo could move the frame a Uttle more, ne sald, ‘“ryetve fot to gat Tt 19 more torrible for you to bejperhaps I could.’ Biren teniie ae: tie piace, no gata! iF ; 4 Ania Aeen't de anything bra" he grunted, while lie was trying | ‘We can try.” | trite nother Maken towr stati cil une (i i ow Taco whore may jet ME | tho en ti’ If we move {t to thi lo tage, and-rurn*to wat) himaele @ ete] Bravely, regardless of bead wi iateor | Feet at you,” ‘ere Pittie ee Getting the other end fr $5 for the Best Story, $1 for the Next Best. $I for the Next Best. $1 for the Next Best, SI for the Next Best. SI for the Next Best _ = "Good, acoriga JH win the prizes. Winnitg stories will be published y day, besin- i in The Even Every Day: Box york trom that piece of {rdn, I think we gi myself out. hen lot ws try tt." They took hold nov Ingly, and th loft." And iuself, and t Figid “and ati nenor! Which way, it is? “There was he sald, remember te matches. that w To h Ten minutes more of hard work. fol- | \utely lowed, and then he felt himault free, He} death r tried axain to get up) Dus Attor all! he aid. bitterly, am @, tO yout. Homething ts wrong sald, broken,” ‘or wrenched, or something. tteand Thomas that | ta ta terrible le ee He tried” Placing hi ipacelc; in drive: your hand Fit) ewain™ ed up and’ ahe clasped bls und. he wot-to-a sitting -poaltion, » strove to’ rive, a sight patn wer to move further, “Tt te useless. I think wa could work out ¢.1 in crowded mont ON n the hand that met | trong y peses wa may Nf darknnge Weslen did sear ¢ him to know. am re was a alicht sound—as though though ‘small, conslderable He was oconsctou But he had not the he groaned, ‘T am Watt-we may 2 some. from tht aide where the big by the other k thers we Til drae mye! Give me your hand again. had gulped down a soe Dis ow: Bot pain he milhaged her a. the resistance self, wit where he anid, "¢ “we can loosen make ourselves "phe nald nat pink and. praying + hope. 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