Subscribe to our newsletter. Ask an Expert Charity and Actors By Mark Twain Address at the Actors Fund Fair in The Metropolitan Opera House, New York, May 6, 1907. Mr. Clemens, in his white suit, formally declared the fair open.
Charity covers a multitude of sins, but it also reveals a multitude of virtues.
At the opening of the former fair we had the assistance of Edwin Booth and Joseph Jefferson. As Mr. Frohman has said, charity reveals a multitude of virtues. This is true, and it is to be proved here before the week is over. Mr. Frohman has told you something of the object and something of the character of the work. I had expected to hear of it through the newspapers.