Business Enterprise.

Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 91

Business Enterprise.

One morning while Mr Sooth, the great American actor, was making his toiliSt in his room at the Palace- Hotel, San Frandoorqnjejly <op£ned;' «&& a wjde-aw&ke-looking individual slid, in and cheerfully bidHse •asi&iMsiied^-actdr good xnorn'VHow'jJ " Hainlefc to-day?" said the straiiger, blandly^. "j'Fraid you wouldn't •cc 'w X I sent my card up, so just dropped » informally, 'as it were." , "Sol^to,' 1 said lago*, "How now,,knave . — nnypjHKjT| n>Bftn^ wnafcttn I do* for you!" * . "Tb&iiffifoMTlftoofaS'^s&d i^e/vti4or, Iwvamljv <>f I am the advertising agent r for j^®i«iml*Be£;«&.^fctiojl House, oil Market jrtreet- Cheapest clothing-house in the ■civijKffta «rorf?,"' Over 50,000- ulsters «t-s— ' '£fcw't ,?«»nt any ukters. CJani: look -trufe -jnA^poat witk 15 ridicuioas pockols. A^at! them 'V . *3Eks 4an*t want to sell you any, my ■deit^ 4Mr."' put in the agent; "I just came to jnake yoj» «■ jregdlaV . business proposition. Oqjn in 'it, my d^'jsir; coin, in it." IJSpt xopait, ivrrah, I am an »*etor.— not . -am jypotioneer." . .' £ That'« J e«totly'at.: You know v w«- ©gents are jalways up tp ,flom,e new advertising ■ ■ Hodge or other^., l, attended, your performance last liigjit, Mr' :Bobt^,. apd, it f occurred to «ne if you woujfl only' introduce some mention, , of oar . ee.t«b|i^ment into your lines, ,we Jco'ula affond to : pky very hber'TTes, You" see, you "might gracefully <wedge in an. allusion to us here and there, where it would seem kinder natural and Appropriate-like. For instance, there's -•Hamret.' - Instead of giving simply the line, 'customary suits of .solemn .t^ttok/ you might adK; 'the Jdrid. they 4 sell at Bazem"bees' for 24<fol' That would sort of nail the. -attention of the audience, seems to me." > "I> should think so," (said the star, stealthily edging over towards a •sword in th© corner. "I see you catch the idea," continued the, agent , 'fNow, there's .'Romeo and Juliet.' Tafeore-'s loads of good chances in . that. Incite Balcony Scene you might say, 1 would I yore one of Babenwee/s ' -cheap dogskin gloves upon that hand 1 , th»<! I rn^ht touch that' (Bheek.'" • „ "Tlou'd like that, would you?" grimly ' inquired Mr 8., slowly unsheathing the riword behind his back and edging towards the door.

"Yes, sir; we shouldn't mind lOOdol A night to have that done in first-ohue - -style. Just Aink how it Would make trade lioom down *fc our place to have you ftbonder, a* Othello, 'Desdemona, where is -the eteg»trt VkereHief I bought for thee at Bazembeefl'?" Why. sir, it would — -" But by this time Booth was fairly roused, and chased the man of enterprise from -the room.