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SHOWMAN
considered that childishly simple. In my time I have played six roles in one evening and acted as stagemanager to boot. I had to be up to any kind of role, serious or comic, fat part or walk-on, male or female for that matter— the part of Madame Frochard in "The Two Orphans" was a favorite of mine— when there was nobody else to do it. Many a night I've died in Monte Cristo's arms as the Abbe Faria and then jumped behind the scenes, shed the Abbe's gown and whiskers in eight bars of music and gone on again in the palace scene as Fernand the villain. Playing that as a front scene gave them a chance to set the big ocean scene where Dantes is thrown into the sea and climbs up on a rock while we all pelted rock-salt at him to make realistic spray. "Mine are the treasures of Monte Cristo!" he sings out. "The world is mine!" Can't you hear me calling, James O'Neill?
Grismer trouped in the good old-fashioned waymining camps, cross-roads— I swear I think we played places the mail didn't get to till ten years afterwards, using lodge-halls, dining-rooms, skating-rinks and school-houses for theaters. You could hardly say Spokane existed yet, although we played it, and I think we were the first theatrical company ever to plunge into the wilds of Montana. I suppose Butte was the biggest place in the state then and it was still in that stage of all plan and no realization which prompted a sardonic citizen to suggest that, now the city fathers had laid the place out, its friends had better come and bury it.
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