Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-05-18

| made contract with the actress for
| three months, he repudiated the bar
| gain Knowing her, she came to me for
! advice. 1 arranged with the actor to
! settle her claim by a suitable payment
and she returned to England.
| When l met Shaw the Following
| summer in London l referred to the
matter. Shaw treated it as joke. oh,
| he said, Mansfield wanted play.
saw a chance to sell him Candida and
10 do good turn for deserving
actress. l really had no idea he would
accept the terms for either. / was not
much interested in my share of the
matter. Why he said, continuing,
| there is a company in our provinces
| now playing Arms and the Man"
They would do well on their opening
| nights. But the rest of the week they
| play to nearly empty houses.
l wired them to send me royalties
for the first night only. But they per-
stst in paying me for every. perform
ance Why, they can't afford it,"
Here is delightful story of Georgia
Drew Barrymore;
Ethel Barrymore's mother was a
| capital coincidence, and a woman of
much wit and humor-a quality not
lacking in her distinguished daughter.
In an engagement in San Francisco she
was asked to take part in a special per-
Torrance. She wired her manager in
New York for permission. His reply
was as follows: No
Her answer to this was equally
brief.
1T was: 'Oh!'
Before her starring days." he says in
another place, Julia Marlowe called
upon me. She was a slender, young and
pretty girl, with very expressive face,
who besought my interest in her stage
ambition. l Immediately offered her
the juvenile business in my company
for the following season, but she re-
fused it,
Then what do you want?' / asked,
feeling that 1 had offered her a splendid
opportunity.
40 want to go out as a star in
shakespeare she answered.
Knowing that it took time and
many patient years in those days to
qualify as a star, especially in Shakes
peare, i declined. But in the same sea-
son she gave a special matinee per-
Torrance of Ingomar' at the Bijou
theater, and won the praise OF the
critics. The following year she sue
ceeded in beginning her starring pro-
ject in the legitimate
1t was he who got Julie Opp on the
stage. She had been writing on stage
matters for the papers, and at my sug-
gestion gave up literature for q stage
George Alexander in London, Froh-
man engaged her to play the princess
in Pineros The Princess and the But
tertly." He says:
Miss Opp was, as she is now, a
fine looking woman. / was asked at
the time whether / engaged her be-
cause she looked like q princess.
NO I replied, because she looks
as a princess ought to look"
He tells story of his early days
at the Lyceum, showing how he robbed
Robson and Crane of their own adver-
tiSement:
1T was on the occasion of the Tooth
performance of Bronson Towards THE
Henrietta with Robson and Crane.
These actors celebrated the event by
banquet. One of the speakers was
Chauncey M. Depew, who, with char
acteristic good will and eloquence,
lauded The Henrietta and its success.
He extolled the splendid work of the
author and INDUCED in some pregnant
remarks about the great American
drama and its dominance.
II selected an impersonal paragraph
from his patriotic speech which re-
ferred to the American drama and
quoted him literally in all my adver-
tisements of The Wife, to the hu-
morous amaZement of Messrs. Robson
and Crane, who had made nothing of
" "A
this | met Mr.. Depew for the first time
at a supper given by Bronson Howard
to Sir-then Mr.-Charles Wyndham
When / was introduced to the distin-
guished publicist and orator, he said:
oh, Frohman! You're the manager
of the Lyceum theater, are your
Il assented to the impeachment.
his hypothecated speech--that Robson
and Crane, at very great expense,
had given a great banquet to celebrate
their play; that he delivered an ap-
propriate speech on this occasion, and
had feloniously arrogated and appro-
priated for my play in my advertise
ments of The Wife, remarks which
had been maliciously diverted from
their object.
And continued Mr.. Depew, when
some of my relatives came to town in
search of theatrical entertainment and
read these advertisements, they natur-
ally went to the Lyceum play that /
had apparently commended. The next
day. added Mr.. Depew with twinkle
in his eye they said: Uncle Chauncey,
we saw The Wife,, and you know you
ought to be very careful what you
eommendi"'"
OF one of Mark Twain's most famous
characters Mr.. Frohman tells this
story, the accuracy of which Is part
~ Dorne out Dy some aIIuSlOnS In Mr.
Clemens autobiography. ~
He was the author of Colonel Sell
lers, I'm which John T. Raymond made
a fortune. The famous catch phrase.
There's millions in it,! came from this
character. Mark Twain wrote the play
in conjunction with Charles Dudley
Warner
But curiously enough Colonel Sell
lers was not at all intended by the
author as a comic parsonage. Twain
had drawn the role from the eccentric
traits of relative of his, and a SOL
emn, serious man. He originally de-
signed the role for Edwin Booth!
THE tragedian, however. failed to
see himself in the part, and 1t fell into
Raymond's hands. In consequence of
the enormous popular success of the
play, because of the extravaganza of
Raymond's Interpretation, although IL
was rightfully legitimate carieature
of type of American, Mark Twain did
not interpose: but he always claimed
that Raymond's Sellers was not his
Sellers"
Frohman produced Abby Sage Rich
ardson's version of Mark Twain's
The Prince and the Pauper," with
Elsie Leslie in the double title role and
Fanny Ward as her understudy. "Mr.
Clemens made a humorous speech on
the first night highly commentaries fl,n