The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-09-14

actor replied, Y wouldn't be working for six dol
lare week.
Forrest bad sailor and once, when we
were making water trip between two coast
towns, the sea became choppy and the governor
had to go below, where he suffered all the misery
of seasickness. Finally he sent for the captain
to to his state-room
How much is this old tub of yours worth?
he groaned the skipper appeared!
Il don't know exactly, Mr. Forrest was the
reply: why do you ask?'
Because l want to buy it and chain it up to
a rock where it can't move, roared Forrest
"E. l.. Davenport one of the greatest act
ors this country ever produced" continued MIR
Langdon. For versatility he has never had an
equal; he could do song and dance with as
much grace as any specialist in that line, and
turn round and play Hamlet and Brutus with al
most any of them. Davenport was a great guy
err: his nature was sunny and he loved fun. Law
renee Barrett was the antithess OF Davenport;
dignity and austerty were his most marked
characteristics Davenport was playing Brutus
to Barretts Cassus on occasion. In the
first act of the play Brutus says to Cassus.
Till then my noble friend, chew upon this
At this point Brutus and Cassus clasp hands.
AS their hands met, Cassus felt something soft
and mushy being squeezed into his hand by the
noble Brutus A Shiny substance oozed through
his fingers and dropped off on the floor; it was
ripe tomato, which Brutus had given Cassius
to chew upon Barrett could not resist the ridic-
ulousness of the situation, and had to turn his
back to the audience to hide his laughter"
Efiie demonstrating, laughing, 1aughter-mak'
ing Effie Germon, of the Wallack Stock Company
and many other metropolitan companes-is re-
cent guest of the home.
"They say Pm too short for grandes dames,'
said Miss Germon; "and of course l know my
time has passed for soubrettes, although feel as
young as did at thirty, and would like to work
but they won't let me; so here / am, and it's a
mighty tine place to b G, under the clrCum
stances. I'm only sixty (she doesn't look more
than forty-hve) and / come of longived fam
lily. My mother, who died only few weeks ago
eighty-seven, and my aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth
saunders is still living in San Francisco, at the
age of nnety-one. She is PROBABLY the Oldest
player, male or female, alive
One of the lively boys of the home is Charles
Gonzales, who is youngster of seventy-sX. Mr.
Gonzales had Spanish father and an Irish moth
er, SO he says he doesn't know whether he is an
Irish Spaniard Spanish lrishman Mr.. Con
zales amuses himself with palette and brush, and
his room contains many water colOrs done by his
han2. Besides this, he is manager of the "Home
Quartette," and with Mesdames Morton, Brennan
and Campbell contributes musical evenings fol
the pleasure of the other guests
Since the home opened there have beer
admitted altogether eigh ty.one guests.
Of this number thirty have died. and twenty
have returned to their families friends, bu
are still provided for by the fund The fund does
not demand that should go to the home ir
order to receive assistance; it is purely matter
of cEeice and aid is given the needy outside thu
home, we'll within. There are at presen
over seventy persons outside the home who are
being cared for by the fund. Strange to say, thu
home has never been filled to its capacity thu
thirty-one inmates now there being the larges
number 1T has ever contained. There are accom-
modations for nineteen MORE with no furthe
applications.