Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1908 — What He Enjoyed. [ARTICLE]
What He Enjoyed.
Mr. Maklnbrakes was trying to say something complimentary to the distinguished actor to whom he had just been Introduced. “What I particularly enjoy about your acting, Mr. Strutters,” he said, “Is your perfect naturalness. You can take an old man’s part, you know, without the slightest necessity for making up—that Is, I mean you don’t have to change your—your voice, you know, or—why, take it in that play I saw you in the other night, when you appeared as an old man. All you had to do was to be just your natural—er—self, though, of course, there were plenty of wigs and wrlrixles you could have put on if you had—er—needed them—which isn’t quite what I was trying to get at either—for anybody could see how admirably you fitted the —the part, you know, without any—and all that sort of—what do you tfflnk' of this new theory, Mr. Strutters, that a man can live on peanuts?”—Chicago Tribune. ———-t ■
