Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
ONE ROMANCE IN
GALBRAITH'S LIFE
NOTHING REMARKABLE IN MY
LIFE" SAYS LEADING MAN
Woman sevcnty-Two Years Old Went
Every Day to See the Actor Be-
cause He Resembled Her
Dead Lover

Joseph Galbraith is about the most
remarkable leading man" that ever
came to Los Angeles. He says he has
not had career" that he never APP
peared with Augustin DAILY or an Uncle
Toms Cabin show, or anything else
Of distinguishing nature.
oI'm just a stock man. I've been IN
good companies in Philadelphia and
New York; but any advance agent
could tell you better story about my
meager past than can tell you. Why,
my very childhood and youth is en-
tirely unworthy of comment. 1 never
spoke pieces at school or got up
church social programs. Don't tell any
body, but I'm glad of It,
II didn't know until few years
ago that 1 would ever yearfi for foot
light applause and press notices. I
was in a wholesale house in New York,
and became stage struck; you know all
about It: every one does. Only in my
. case / was struck so badly that I've
never gotten over 1t. No, l never ex-
peot to. It's grown to mean more than
anything else.
Girls Responsible
"How did 1 come to be leading man
so soon To you / will admit the
truth; the girls have done it. You
may not believe It, but delight in Il
comedy part, and the typical stage
1rishman especially appeals to my fun
ny bone. Do do Irish parts therefor.
Never. 1 roll my eyes and look poett2;
girls, l will not tell you how many be-
cause do not know, say l make a
lovely leading man. Therefore l am
leading man. That is my brief un-
poetic history.
as the matinee girl SO troublesome
l would hardly put it so strongly. At
ter you get over the first joy of it, you
know, you pay no attention to 1t. Their
letters are all alike. At first you don't
think so. If you are young enough,
you may even have a few thrills. But
photographs and stamps are expensive
and the glory and the dream goes
It's strange that so many are eager
for our pictures, so many cannot SLEEP
nights for thinking of u.s. yet so few
of them enclose stamps for reply, not
to mention the price of this requested
photograph.
MANY of these letters are very RI
diculous. once kept all the very fur
ny ones. One always receives grea1
batch begging for advice about taking
up the stage as profession. Some O.
these are sincere and pathetic, and
try to answer them, others are very
funny. One girl said to me once, oh
Mr. Galbraith, if l could only have
my photograph in a big frame in tEf
lobby the way you have yours woulo
be so proud and happy l would go ant
stand under it all day so that every
one would know it was II
His Only Romance
But something happened once tha
touched me. 1t is not really my 70
nance, though call 1t mine because
seem to be connected with it. l haY'
always kept that letter, and 1 hav'
never forgotten the woman who wrot
1t to me. She was the only woman whit
ever wrote to me about real feeling
| loved her for telling me; she wa
seventy-two years old. This is how
came to be real comfort to her: Whel
she was a young woman she had lovet
a sea captain he was drowned at SCI
few months before they were t
have been married. I was the exac
image, so she told me, of this lost love
whom she had waited for through tn
years. Definite news Of him she ha
never heard
& "This white haired old woman cam
by chance to one of our matinees i
Philadelphia. After that she neYe
missed a performance. She told me a
I about it in this letter that l am proud
Ger of than any other have ever had.
is a delicately highbred letter, the lette
of a true woman and expressed yer
quantity, but it has the tremor G
the real tragedy, that she had neve
forgotten, in every line.
ut used to help me to know she wa
there and that, in my futile way, wa
doing something for her. She was
dear woman. She admitted to me, wit
kind of fear that might be hurI
that she didn't care about the play
or the things ! said. But 1 was lik
him, strikingly, she said, even to vote
and little mannerisms That is my ro
nance. 1t may seem sentimental t
you, but it made the whole time l wa
in Philadelphia sweeter to me-"
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