The age-herald., 1902-03-30
BY WILLIAM RYAN

the cross eyed man. If she saw him ir the third row from the front she could not play that night. If she happened to see him in any other row she did nt mind him.
 Mary Anderson, now Mrs. Navarro, liv- ing sweet domestic life in England, was a wonderful success on the stage. She was woman of rare grace of character and every stage hand and call boy wor- shiped her. Her mother travelled with her constantly as a chaperon. Miss An derson said to me one matinee afternoon when she was robed for Parthenia, about two years before she met MT. Navarro: T will never fall in love; l will never get married. I am welded to my art' But when she met her fate 1t was easy no doubt for =--r to change her mind with regard to love and matrimony The last time I saw Mary Anderson I rode with her and her mother as their guest in a private car from Washington to Balti- more. The actress had a piano in her car and she played and sang for me. She possessed a rich contralto voice. -Iiss Andersons chief superstition was a bald headed fiddler When she discovered violin artist with no hair on the top of his head, she shuddered and was not at her best so long as she saw him.
 I was personally well acquainted with Sol Smith Russell. He was as droll off the stage as he was on. He was one of the few great actors who never acted much. He was almost his natural self in Poor Relation and his other comedies. MT. Russell was agnostic in religion but a regular Bible reader. He could quote more scripture than the majority of Sun day School teachers or preachers. Be- tween acts he would often recite several of the Psalms or a long chapter from Job, Isaiah or ,le Lamentations of Jere- mfah. He said he studied the Bible for the poetry that was in it. His supersti- tion was in connection with a ring he wore He had only one and 1t was a narrow gold band Off the stage he kept 1t on his third finger of his left hand, but when he started for his entrance he quickly shifted it to the third finger of his right hand He forgot on one occasion to do this and was dangerously i'll soon afterwards.
 Joe Jefferson, who has been deep in the affections of the American public for more than third of a century, has less of superstition than actors in general yet he has enough to keep in line with the profession, for I am convinced that an actor without superstitious notions is an actor without imagination. Superstition is related to poetry.
 I had many pleasant chats with Mr. Jefferson, but he was an elderly man when l first met him and did not, there fore feel free with him as I did with some of the rest. heard Jefferson laugh at the yellow clarinet superstition and several others that were universally held by members of the sock and buskin fra ternity. But an old valet told me that the eminent comedian felt terribly i'll at ease if anything happened to the dressing room mirror. In 1868 his mirror fell and was cracked. Bad luck followed. In 1871 the mirror fell, and, although 1t was not damaged, MT. Jefferson's company was in railroad collision the next morning before daylight. In 1877 the valet acci- dently knocked the mirror down. Mir Jefferson, always kind in his treatment of those around him, said nothing, but the valet, knowing how the actor was