By Sewell Ford THE RAMBI.ER WRITES; OF OLD T1HEATERS BREAKIN'G WRONG EZ " ;torTnj T/> /^V mT put over this touching love scene In TO start ont In the morning1 as regulation movie fashion. Right In AND STAGrE ATTRACT lUiNb tjf irIE an and the CAPITAL orangeade dipper midst of It arrives this sllck-halr, the the day as a movie actressfinish pasty-faced young gent with poetic title "Girls on a Slide." "The beak. DRIFTING into a vein of is what I'd call a broad jump. prominent Beautiful Cantatrice." Miss Rose "I say. Slmms," he break In, "who last the That's the record of Miss Ines Sunday, reflections Takes the Qld-1rimer Back to a was singing at Driver'!. RacesGarland. is this?' Rambler recalled the Day were trotted at the was Mr. to being: Brightwood up to date, as I tellingPetersenyon. "Eh?' says Slmms, turning Park, and there was one race she'd him. "Oh, It's you. is It, Morris? of Albaugh's Operaopening HEWhen M Driving: And you would almost think Maggie itchell, Joe Jefferson, in particular which the Rambler new on Mean the Queen Fulda? Oh, she's House Monday evening. It was between J. be so thrilled over it that she couldn't one I when Waters on Hogue's recalls. picked jip quit 10, 1884, the attraction beingNovemberthe Edwin Forrest and Burgdorf's Tramp. It Bismarckwas Yet I didn't notice that Ines me. How do like eh?' and Others Were the sleep. you her, Abbott While Filling a great race and though I have found trouble in tearing oft the "Why. she's a scream," says Morrle. Hmma Opera Company. any at all. Too Slmms. the Washington which horse won, 1 can recall thatforgot usual nine hours of slumber that "Not the type big. Light Infantry Washington .Then There Is I did not. far too big. Might do In a Sennett Opera House (as it was called night, some of it more or less j In a serious costume Armory There was also an "athletic congress" comedy.but musical. play.never In the world." before being leased by John W. of CertainTheaterstionSumm Gardens, OutdoorMnler at the National base ball grounds. The it of was building "thunderbolt a Mr As for me. before I could stop the "J''' "But she's getting over." Insists Baltimore) Albaugh champion." wheels going round. I had to dally Simqis. "Wych those eyes register." Ford's Opera House was ''remodeled. Attractions and Races.-That Famous Race at met Harry Hill's "unknown".andThompson. dreams of the future. I "Bah!" says Morrle. "I tell you This reference is not to Ford's then you could not recognize the "uf|r with rosy she Isn't at all the type I had in mind known." Duncan C. Ross, the wrestle#, could map out a career for Inex that the tragedy house, on Theater,10th / had Mary Pickford's life story when I wrote the script. I won't have street, but to the old structure, still Brightwvod Driving Park."The Toronto put both shoulders of a number of mjpri by any on the Charli* like a sketch of an old readingmaid my play spoiled t^t queen, standing, which many Washingtonians T 1\" J ZJ' T\ t mat. and I«ange, Bchool teacher. I could see Inex either." will recall as Wall's Opera House, i error anaxus L/ownt all. champion." who had offered"middleweightto the of fame, with "Oh. come Morrle. be reasonable!" which much meet Pat the "Toronto climbing stepladder Simms. "Miss Petersen and very many of you O'Dognell. me steadying it all the while and pleads Mr. remember as Harris' Bijou Theater. | jj. with or without gloves, met Terror,"him. coaching her along; first as a may De a lime nun») >vi me vai l. »ui In The Star of July 26. 1884. many I Ouildlng, which is still standing:, smother Desdemona, and the deed was The way the "Toronto Terror" came at in a Port Lee If the does it well nobody will notice what often went to the Marble him he couldn't help but meet him. leading lady substitute can't of you read follows, but onlyj you becausedone with so iiftle nois^ and confusion studio, then as a regular star, until that. Besides, you dictate every one In ten or twenty thousand pasted i saloon, Which was in the basement. that no notice was taken of it by the The Evening Star of that day referred we finally wound up at the Los detail. I'm the director here, it lit a scrap book or clipped it with! W. L. Wall, the auctioneer and police. Then he came down to to the "Toronto Terror" as a gentleman Arageles movie heaven with our own remember."the idea of putting: it in a scrap book f of Wall's Opera House, wasmanlgrera reading: his lines in ItalianWashington.while "who is not a parlor pugilist." Th^ producing company and a "And I'm the author," shouts Morris. and then stuck it away where you son-in-law of Thomas Berry, owner his company spoke in English. He Theater Comique. and, by the way. Gray bungalow at Hollywood.doublebreastedI nevfer saw it again: >f the property. The opera house mas at Albaufch's. and it was someappearedand Stevens were the managers, was so far as to wonder how 1872 and was and Oscar and even got Workmen ire busy in the interior of Ford's' jurned in rebuilt, there" time in the middle 90s. and before the showing: Minnie Willie many secretaries it would take to Opera House. The furniture has been re-' reing in the new building many Rambler yets through with this Job he their Troupe of Dramatic Dogs." Miss autograph her photos for fans, and moved and all the ornaments stripped from over the old. After Jmjroveipentswill And the date. Alice Hill and Miss Floy Clements were I pictured the kind of sport the ceiling. A peep into a theater the place Berry and WallreouildingNow it may be that Salvini the Great singing at Driver's and Garry Hopper we'd drive to work in. I was alteration affords no agreeable sensation eased the theater to John T. Ford had been in the United States before, character sketches there. speedster to hare theundergoing was giving a little vague about the type of to one v.ho lores faith in painted for ten years. Ford, who had no and there is just a trace of memory It was on Monday evening. August 21, but I knew it would have three world of the stage. The shadowy regions in since the somewhere in the back of the -Rambler's motor. behind the wings and the mysteries of the Washington takingtheiter that Ford's Opera House reopened and. 'sets of windshields and so many >ver of the 10th street house by the head that he was here, but he cannot to called it end greenroom are laid bare and one gets an in addition being "Ford's," spare tires on back that the rear notion that beneath the glamour government after the assassination of remember that he came to Washington was also called "The Parlor Theater of or the unpleasant saw at would look like a caterpillar and romance and Aetlons of the stage are hard President Lincoln, fitted up the before you and I him Albaugh's. Washington." The attraction was tail of a rattler. realities of every day life.cash, capital and theater in the most, approvedreDUlltIf you do remember such a thing, write and Wilson's Minstrels. In the 'Well, Inez." says I next morning, business energy.' The general public will, nanner of the time and reopened it me and tell me about it. Now. in the Barlow such disillusions, for troupe were George Wilson. Milt , "how do you feel about it?" however, escape shocking Saturday night, February 22, 1872. the" case of Lily Langtry, my youthful Frank MoNish. before the doors of the opera house are me that when Hughey Dougherty. Barlow. "Oh. all right," says she casual. will l>lay being "Rip Van Winkle." and the prompts to say memoryLily, the W. K. teams of again opened to the public the theater as came to Washincton she Eddie Hall and "How do you feel. Trilby May?" as star actor, you may guess without the lily and deal like a have undergone a transformation complete at and that was in the Griffii^and Marks and Crawford "Me?" says I. "A good and as any which ever delighted the looking at the name I am about to Albaugh's. appeared H. who sure of being striking was when "Pinafore" and "The Pirates McKfsson. When Ford's reopened she-Svengali isn't* little folks at a Christmas pantomine. write, Joe Jefferson. days son John was to deliver the trance stuff when said was a of Penzance" were shopworn, and "The Clay Ford, of T.. able "We are coming down stairs," There great audience present, J. l>5Wis was called for." John T. Ford, briefly explaining Managerthe and the most prosperous, best-dressed Black Hussar." "The Red Husser" and the business manager. At which Inez favors me with one improvements In progress to the Star ind most bejeweled people in Wash- "Brminie" were all the rage. At that I the treasurer, Aleck Betz was assistant of those simple stares of hers. "Like "When the improvements are the t*.vo great disadvantages we havereporter. what?" she demands. maincompleted I was labored under Will be overcome.
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