Diplomatic.

Fair Play, Volume II, Issue 27, 1 November 1894, Page 31

Diplomatic.

, Porter of Sleeping Car—Your berth is ' the top one, lady. - - . Passenger—What do you take me for, a bundle of old fashioned dry goods that • you want to put out of sight on the top shelf? •* Porter of Sleeping Car—No, madam, only an angel,- who ought .to ,be as near heaven as possible*- ; . TOUD BY JOSEPH JEFFERSON. Some Yarns .HC Recently .Spun st- tlie-An* ■ tliors’ Club, . “Our chairman; said /something tonight about' the lovely lack of jealousy among authorß and its prevalence among myundallied, professions,' I must dissent from; the; idea. Why, have you .pot all observed ‘ the harmony which prevailed among- the oper-. ,'atic stars whose season recently closed at the Metropolitan Opera llouse? [Laughter.] And then take it in my own profession.- If an actor is discharged from a - < pany, arethere not always plenty ’of his fel- > ‘ low, actors ready to take his part? [After a silence, laughter.] - ■■ “Preparation, to return to my text,ig > mqst essential.in the players’ profession. It we are.not prepared, we cannot retrace, retract nor repair. The speech once delivered cannot'be recalled; You authors may correct and revise, the painter can scratch out and paint over, but how. would it seem iu me to pause after a speech on the stage, scratch my chin and say: ‘That inflection was not quite right. I will deliver that line again?’ - “Powibly I may have paid too much air tention fb preparation in my profession. .One critic has abused me frequently for • that, and he laments tbat-I'leavenothing ' to chance. That worries him, bufc-J assure him. he is right. I never )eave' anything, to chance. *■* “fwill confess.betweenu ■ didheedlessiy prepare for oneoccasiojJ.sMr. Florence andl .fcqgethiar:- < and when tboMrae approached.

Florence and up' ■- - Mr.:jfeflferson'pftti»edtii(( put it back ou the tablc ; u that performaucd; f .‘ fi was no afterward. Hewaispl/iyjuit fu : : -thi>.'-New.^Kßg>amb : icti > e , etc. Quo after the performance act! jtofft?' “ 'Tbisjs a mark of peculiarly touches me. 1 kuowt; the men before'me—know them I played marbles!with them shudow of. the Hartford shared their boyhood Joys and I assure yon that tshull never last act'of kindness'whleh, you Harbford’ — *• »t /Tt? * JJM& “Just then a voice from the terrnpted him: - • • “ ‘This' is New y Hdveoi '[Laughter,] " 'W.CvJ . % “Preparation Is essential. ager was obliged toapologlzo for the nomippearauce of ;)bet leodiß|f:niw|#| who had been suddenly called city by the death of his pother.' ' ‘'lt happened that-ihe manager ing was suffering from a was a trifle unsteady as to voh&sn&ltg&r" f but his dignity stood firm on botb said; f - * “ ‘The leading rtmu, and .la* dies, is—thief is flint time excuse has^b'be>;.< made this “theater, man's mother is dead. Never , before oO' ; curved this’. tbea% disappoint andteti|ef : and—<you see man's moth* is dead. I regret;.}, that after 80 years' 'experience theater, audidnee—which I mean tO vStty ~ man’s mother is dead, but shall never'oercur.again.*''" * „« v Mr. Jefferson told the story in a Voice so' richly affected by the disubtti ager suffered ftomthatalllii# ed for their glasses.* * ' , ; • T J " J 'V irlr -\' ■ '-.'■ ~: J. '-’'“yJT- 1 J .J 7? ': rf•