Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 181, Hammond, Lake County, 19 January 1917 — Page 28

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THE ORAK-LE Jannarv 22 and 23, 1017

CHARLEY CASE'S STORY ABOUT HIMSELF

I first started In the show business by singing ballads, the words and music of which were my own production. In fact, I wrote all of my own songs. "Whenever any one Banff a song which I liked. I would hear him sing it a few times, and then I wou'.ti go home and write It. The song which first attracted atttntlon to me as a sung writer was entitled. 'You Could Trust Her With Your Very Life, Kver Since the Night She Pied." The flrft time I ever eanfC it was out West before a lot of cowboys. The sng was a great hit, and It must have li'.led one of the cowboys with remorse, because while I was singing "e tried to commit suicide and shot at himself twice. The strnngest part of it was, he missed himself both times, and the bullets came within about an inch of my head. When I had finished singing the ti..ng and walked off the gtage. the

audience yeled and shouted, and tried every way to get me to come back again. Some of them even stood up on their seats and dared me to come back. As I was leaving the theater a number of admirers met me at the stage door and actually enrried me upon their shoulders, clear from the theater to the city limits. They liked my singing very much In California. When I left there the people didn't want me to come away at all; In fact, they wanted me to remain there all of the time. One of the principal newspapers In Pan Francisco said in an article that they wished I could stay there forever. I remember the article very well, and can even now repeat It word for word. It said: "Charley Case has closed his engagement at the Orpheum Theater and leaves California tomorrow morning for the east. We would like to have him stay forever."

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You may have noticed that I never do a very long act. Uw Dockstader. the great comedian, suggested that idea to me. He said, "'You must never tire the audience, and should always leave them while they still want you." That is the way 1 left an audience one night in St. Iouis. I saw that they wanted me, and I left. And at once time It looked a little bit as though they were going to GET me. Mr. Pockstader also said io me "Keep at the audience till you get the people all worked up. and Just the moment you see you have them going nicely quit." That was the -ay I did that night In St. Ix)uis only I didn't notice that I had them going until they were nearly gone. In Chicago everybody seemed to know me. One morning, about halfpast two, I was going along Halfted street, when some fellow came, out of a doorway, and, flourishing a revolver before my face, said to me: "Hold up your hands." -Well, the fellow was disguised, but you bet he couldn't fool me. for I knew he was a robber. I said to myself, "I don't want to hurt this man, but it Is my duty to society to take him a prisoner and hand him over to the police." Then it occurred to me, on the other hand, that maybe the poor fellow had a large family and had been driven Into the stealing business on account of the very hard times, and I thought that if I let him go this time that he miJtht in future lead a better life. For this reason I made up my mind to give him one more chance to reform, so I held up my hands. After I had put them up as high as I could reach, he asked me what my name was, and I told him. He said to me: "Are you the Charley Case I saw over at W. S. Cleveland's Theater on Wabash avenue the other night, who came out and sang a ballad?" I modestly told him that I was. "I I tell you what we wil do, then." he said. "If you will quit the show business and join me, with my experience, and your nerve, we can make a thousand dollars a night." I remember one Monday morning Mr. Percy Williams, the manager of the Orpheum Theater in Brooklyn, met me on the street and asked me if I intended doing any singing in my act during that week at his theatre. I told him that I was going to sing a ballad which I had Just written. He said that he would like to hear It before I sang in the theater. I thought it very complimentary, when the manager himself was so anxious to hear me sing that he couldn't wait until the show began. So we stepped arouid into an alley and I sang it for him. I also showed him a few dancing steps which I intended to introduce into'my act. Mr. Williams told me that he was very much pleased with the song. This surprised me somewhat, as I am certain that I did not do myself Justice in singing it, for just as I got about into the middle of the ballad somebody accidentally dropped a brick from one of the roofs and It hit me on the top

of the head. It nearly knocked me out. but I stuck to it and finished the song, and, as I aaid before, was delighted upon hearing. Mr. Williams Bay that he wa very, much pleased with it. I then said to him, "If you are very much pleased I wish that you would put that in writing; then I can publish it In the paper and it will help me to get some work." He said: "Certainly." Then I suggested that he also mention in the letter the fact that I was singing under difficulties, having ben Injured so seriously, and that would make the letter stronger for me. He told Tne that it was a splendl idea, and he wrote the following letter for me: "This is to certify that Charley Cnse gave me a private exhibition of his singing. While he was singing hs ballad, someone dropped a hrck upon his head and nearly killed hinj. I was very much pleased." Mr. Keith was also very kind to me and I grew to consider him one of the best friends I had in the world. Any time I was staying in New York City, and happened to la broke and wanted to borrow a little money, I always went right to him and he told me whom to ask for It.

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A Wlsie Prrcnullou. The day before she was to be married, an old negro servant came to her mistress and entrusted her savings to her keeping. "Why should I keep your money for you? I thought you were going to be married,'' said the mistress. "So I Is, missus, but do yo' suppose I'd keep all dis money in de house wid dat strange nigger?"

In Temptation' Way. "Tills Is the first time you have been to prayer meeting In a long time, Krastus." said the ircadier of a negro congregation. "I had to come," replied Krastus. "I needs strengthenin'. I'se got a job whltewashln' a chicken coop and buildin" a fence 'round a watermelon patch."

Merely Technic!1. A religious worker was visiting a Southern penitentiary, when one prisoner in some way took his fancy. The prisoner was a negro, who evinced a religious fervor as deep as it was gratifying to the caller. "Of what were you accused," the prisoner was asked. "Dey says I took a watch," answered the negro. "I made a good fight. I had a dandy lawyer, and he done proved an alibi wif ten witnesses; den my lawyer he shore made a strong speech to the jury. Hut It wasn't no use, sah; I gets ten years." "I don't ace why you were not acquitted," said the religious worker. "Well, sah," explained the prisoner, "der was shore one weak spot 'bout

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