The evening world. Newspaper, September 29, 1913, Page 4

ccs CLOWNS WHEN THEY WERE GENUINELY FUNNY Veteran “Jack” Clark Tells of the Days When He Made the Whole World Laugh. MODERN CLOWNS TAME. | Great Sport for Audience When Clark Was Shot While * Doing an Act. Thirty years a clowa, back in the @14 Dan Rice show days, when Canal etreet was uptown and circus tents were pitched on the vacant lots In Houston street! Old Capt. John C. Clark, who celebrated his eighty/irst birthday this week at Long Branch, has some lively experiences to relate. In those days everybody went to the cirous. It wasn't: “Shall we go to Hammerstein's or take in an act of the Casino show, but: “Are we going to the big SHOW?” And if there, ‘was 60 cents in the old stocking hang: ing tm the corner, you can bet that we were! * Just think of those olf days, when nobody had heard of the high cost of living or the red light drama, when l4 Horace Smith and Tom King—you @aght to ‘a’ seen Tom do the backward Jump. He was the champion backward Jumper (the Captain chuckled) unt 1 Beat Bim. And I can etill jump! The day I was sixty-six 1 did ten feet on @ dackward jump, and if I didn’t have a Mitte touch of rheumatism I eould still do it. Apted moet exciting time I ever had fa the circus? That's easy. We were Playing on Houston street at that time, and it was the second night after we hed brought the show to New York. My trick was to balance @ chair on top ef @ long pole and do acrobatic and contortionist stunts on the chair. There was a certain gal that I was head over heels in love with and che was eettin’ im the front row. I sorter knew that 4 eho ever saw me do that act she'd come around and quit making me walt eny longer, oo I was anzioun to have Rer eee me. I had @ rival and 1 knew he was setting somewhere In the audi- gueas he knew too that if I one. 1 ever pulled off that stunt before her | chat would be goofby for him. Bo & was kind of expecting something. SHOT WHILE PERFORMING HIS GREATEST ACT. “Just as I began workin’ and every- ‘was going just as nice as it could me balancin’ on the chair, there @ revolver shot and lookin’ down ww that my hand was bleedin’. There He won't @ bit of pain, so I kept on, only alg realisin’ what had happened. As fer the audience, they thought it was part of the show and I got the bigaest Peception I ever landed in my whole life. ‘The fellow that did it got away, but be never turned up again.” The Cap tate stopped to exhibit @ ecar on als fight han@ where the bullet had Grased it. “You got used to shootin’ in those @pys,” he continued. “When I firat @tarted in the show business, the trains gel went as far West as Albany, and played at every Western town in the country worth stoppin’ at. “Wid you ever hear about the time I i, John Robinson's show from him? | He had got hold of an act where a| Make believe French noble and his wife exhibited a large wardrobe and did « few tricks of thelr own, You wouldn't fe "a? delieved it, but it made the biggest —= Ait that ever was, I went to see itone & wight. After that T went and had the wardrobe all carefully copied and we Began rehearsing the act. Frank Roston Eas wes Monsieur and Alexander Sanfrett! = wes Madame, Dan Rice was the clown —= ena I played the part of the valet. Then we wont te Warntrton and et Es justve rights to the piece When = ee Solana testers Nil cl te oe = ‘York and {t was stopped he could ‘a’ killed the whole Dan Rice company, but we went on playin’ it as long as tt drew, which was a long time. That’ the way the show business was in thone = days, “THEY WAS REAL CLOWNS” IN ‘THE GOOD OLD Days. “Prank Drew, the uncle of John Drew. ‘Was in the company then. Dan learned him to play second clown, and fie wa: good. 1 teil you they was real clown: when the Dan Rice company played! ‘The last time I went to New York I mw this fellow Marceline, but I can't | eee much in him, "I don't have much to do with the p= ghow business now. My business now ts @avin’ people. I have been @ licensed erangelist for thirty years, In sixteen ays I have converted 167 persons. And Tam goln' to keep at it as long as I $ “1 {hink it's bein’ @ elrous clown that’s Atied for bein’ an evangelist. 1 fearned be how to act differentiy for difter- audiences and 1 got go I could sine atm ~ atcha, 5 «| AUTO SIDEWIPES CAB; 3 PENNED IN WRECK A cad containing four passengers and driven oy James MoCarthy of No. = West Thirty-fifth street wae rumbling up Fifth avenue at Eighty-fifth treet at 8 o'clock this morning, when an/ing women. Ads has played more than automobile owned by Frank J. Finan 1% Park avenue eiiewi!ped it and turned it over, ws Injured Chief Still Lives, H The condition of Acting Battalion H Chief John J. Shannon of the Sixth & Battalion, who je in Bellevue Hospital | Hy suffering from @ fractured apine as the, result of a fall during @ fire in Fast Eighteenth atreet on Friday atght Jeet | Ghd ed early to-day to be un FROM THE PRINCESS BEFORE PUBLIC VIEW Condemned by Guests at a Re- hearsal, Management Post- pones Theatre’s Opening. Aged Evangelist Who Was a Clown In the Good Old Tent Circus Days Lack of Lights Blamed Blamed for Crash—| foshett will estabiien an'unuoual record, Only the Driver Needs the Her appearance then Doctor's Attention. ‘Other People’ r Prices and Ours We can make and sell better than the usual $25 and $30 suits and overcoats for $15, $18 and $20 1. We have studied workshop economy for three quarters of a century. 2. We have picked the best of wool fabrics from tariff-anxious houses. 3. Our clothes move direct from workshop to store with no middle man’s commission. ass fate ine ely, teas 0 sr manne for an ing fresh modem styles in fine clothing at lowse > than usual prices, Nowhere will you find such exclusive patterns in English Narrow-Cut clothes, lined or unlined Cheviots, Worsteds, reasonable figures, ‘““We Make These Clothes On Our Own Premises So We Know” r, SEPTEMBER 29, + e FUSONSTS FRE pe wae cpr oor nen, eat OPENING GUN TO-NIGHT Candidates Will Be No Be Notified at Big Cooper Union Meeting of Their Nominations, me Lay laylet * “Russia” tata Ite scene in on ingly made ‘to poolledeny “the popular conception of Jesus Christ, takes refuge from Russian police under the bed of one of the inmates, but ts discovered, dragged out and “crucified” with the kntvea of the police against the wall of the bedroom. In dying he epeake the mh words of ooo uttered by Christ je opening gun of the Fusion cam- mares mance | Keep your old Piano considered Union, when John Purroy hel, | by the audience at the dreas rehearm] George McAneny and William A, Pren- equally as blasphemous, delineates the “ersast and their asrociates will be deathbed acene of an athelat, uttering formally notified of their nomination. Clipe against God and the sanctity of Efforts are being made to make the meeting one of the ol time er | Cooper Union gatherings and te that if end district Fusion leaders are working | pee aces ———_—_—_—_—_—_=>—_"“——=_X “The Eternal Myatery,” Tapink o tt, perhaps from the very recent inciderite attending the with- @rawal and revision of the two plays, “The Fight” and “The Lure,” after they had been threatened with police eup- Preasion, the management of the Prin- cose Theatre hae voluntarily with- @rawn two of the five short playa @oheduled for its repertoire thia season Defore they were open to public view, This has caused the opening of the Playhouse, which was to occur on Sat- urday night, to be postponed for a week until two new playa can de ataged | to take the place of those withdrawn. — LOOT RESTAURANT SAFE, Thieves Enter via Basement and Get Away With $50. Burglars robbed the aafe in the office of the Germaine Restaurant Company, on the ground floor of No, 114 Broad- way, early to-day, escaping with $60 In cash. Entrance was gained to the ree taurant by forcing open an iron door loading inte @ barber shop in the base-/| The safe, @ emall one, was dragged from the office into the kitchen in the back of the restaurant. The metal eheet- Ing on the back of it was jimmied off and the cement Interior brokem, 2! The piayleta which the management | was left by the burglars. Waa wise enough to withdraw before Dublic resentment could make ttaelf felt | © ” 1918. ferences on campaign issues They ha will be filled to overflowing. This |have shaped up a programme and to- will not Interfere with meetings outside, |night's affair is scheduled to bring our for the candidates will talk wherever |the main issues in the Fuston attack 6 demand for tickets shows that the there a, on Tammmpny Hall. 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