The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-31

Wilson Barrett, in South Africa, has just
recovered from a serious illness.
This energetic Englishman, who, IL he
could act as well as he can manage, would
be the greatest player of his day, has just
added Africa to the list of his conquests.
He has played successfully in England, in
the United States. and in Australia for
many seasons. He has been I'll in all of
these countries and being yet alive, evil
IDENTIFY has recovered in all of them. Mr..
Barrett will go back to England, produce a
new play. fail or succeed, and then come
back to the United States.
One of these days. you will may see Mr..
Barrett in the marble lobby of the South
ern Hotel. You will see a short. big-boned,
thin man attired in an ~outrageously fitting
suit of British clothes. If he knows you
he will shake you by the hand. recall the
day. hour and place of your last meeting
with him; then he will in all probability
tell you in a most entertaining way of the
next play he is planning TO produce.
Sick or well. prosperous or i'll in luck.
Mr.. Barrett will be courteous to cordiality
and pleasantly humorous on all suggested
subjects. Once upon time. after a hard and
dusty Journey across the improbable plains
of the distant West, Mr.. Barrett was en-
tertained at club by a charming gentleman
now dead. No one in the company knew
from the actors manner that he was well
nigh moneyless. and that there hung at
his heels an unpaid company of not too
amlable Englishmen. Mr.. Barrett was
most delightfully."- himself.
When the dinner was at an end-not at
the exact point. to be sure-Mr. Barrett
sblandly borrowed a large sum of money
Nrm one or two of his Western American
friends and pushed away to New York and
London. The first duty of the actor-mana-
ger, upon arriving at the English dock.
was to acquire a sum equal TO that Dor
rowed. This he sent with the swiftness of
the cable to the Westerners who had al
lowed him the loan of it.
So, whenever you hear Of Mr.. Barrett,
living or dead. you may know that you are
hearing from a cheerful soul and a merry.
a man bright of mind and energetic to the
smallest Of his muscles, and of character
far better than the average of his calling.
Harry Fulton, long a newspaper worker
OF Chicago and New York, but at this time
one Of the many journalists IN the profess
sion of the theater, was in town all OF last
week. He is connected with the Kirk La
Shelle enterprises, which include the con-
tinuously successful Arizona" written by
Augustus Thomas.
Mr.. Fulton says that Arizona has made
for its owners in the past three years no
less than $4,000, on an investment that was
very trihing. From another source II is
learned that only the other day a half In
terest in the piece was sold for $4,000, in
spite OF the 1act tnat most of the country
has seen 1t. Mr.. Thomas, the author, has
made from this play alone enough money to
retire on, but he won't.
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Bruce Edwards will this week resume his
old position as business manager to Julia |
Marlowe.
Mr.. Edwards will soon write a story un-
der the title, zone Summer; or, Some Hard
Luck I've Met Up With"
About a year ago. he played Mr.. kelcey
and Miss Shannon In "Manon Lescaut."