The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-13
KNEw-HIM-wHEN CLUB.
Interesting skit by Charming Pollock
in "The Show"
editor and Publisher.)

editor and Publisher)
Claiming Pollock, the we'll known
press agent of the Shubert theaters. is
said to be making a real success of his
little magazine called THE shown 1t
IS book of pocket size and consists of
some thirty odd pages of good bright
rev attractive pictures. The Show is
published monthly and is selling at
the very modest price of one cent q
copy or ten cents a year.
Mr. Pollock has attracted TO the
magazine some first class contributors,
among. whom are the following: John
Kendrick Bangs. Frances Aymer
Mathews. TheOdosia Garrison, Sidney
Rosenfeld. Anna Marble. Lee Arthur,
Edith Sessions Topper, Philip Robert
Dillon, Kate Masterson. Walter Pulit-
ger, Edith Carruth, Willis STEEL Anna
Steese Richardson, Epes Sergeant,
Louise Lamprey, Sam Gerson Thomas
Jones and Willard HolcOmb.
Claiming Pollock started. of course,
as newspaper man, like all success
Iul press agents do. His father was
editor and proprietor of the Salt Lake
Times, and Claiming worked for a
time on that paper. He then visited
Washington and did dramatic work
for the Post of that city. After a
brief service on the staff of the ORA
matte Mirror in New York he re-
turned to Washington and became
dramatic editor of the TimesF His
criticisms got him into disfavor with
the theatre managers, and a theatrical
boycott against the Times led to his
dismissal. He returned to New York
and was for some time press, agent
FOR William A. Brady's productions
Mr.. Pollock has done considera BILE
literary work. his dramatization of
The Pit being perhaps his best
known. In the current issue of his
little magazine, the Show, we find this
interesting little skit from MS pen:
1t was a great statesman who said:
God save me from my friends-I can
look after my enemies
ITO the average man this NAV seem
an ungracious comment on the ac-
tivities OF persons animated wholly by
affection, but the super-average man
is sufficiently unlucky to have a bet
ter understanding Of the matter. He
KNOWS that, though he may have a few
honest friends, the majority of those
closest to him would be bitterest and
most tireless in their opposition to his
success.
" The -Knew-Him-w When club is
the witty appellation given to these in
diyiduals by George AIDE. They are
the people who knew me before I
made good he said one night at a
dinner. and they Will never cease re-
senting the fact that I tried to rise
from their ranks. With poised pens
they sit in judgment, as their lips NUT
ter; II knew him when we were both
on the same newspaper. We have
eaten with our knees under one coun-
ter. He has lent me money-the id
four fiushr >"
The world is made up of members
of this club. Their victims are every
where. Richard Harding Davis has
suffered most from them. He pass
ed me today without bowling" is the
plant against the cleverest short story
writer in America. He used to know
me well enough in the old days 1t
never occurs to this tiny souled man
that the very work and thought which
made Mr.. Davis a successful author
may have robbed his mind of one of
the minor figures of the old DAYS
The penalty of success is that one may
not be forgiven for forgetting Still
less would be the clubman in question
realize that he might have been out
grown; that If he had not been out
grown. Mr.. Davis would still he OBJ
scure as he; that it is his own fault
II he was not a stopper but step
ping stone.
Augustus Thomas is another VIC
tim of The I-Knew-H im-When club.
BY George? AYERS the scribe Chs
Thomasi knew him when he did po-
lice in 81 Louis How can, he write