The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

she went to New York. where she became a member of the Murray Hill Stock com
 pany from which Nance O Neill, also Belasco favorite, graduated. She next
 1onrneyea across the continent and joined
 Fred Belascos A1cazar Stock company In
 San Francisco. Returning east from the
 coast she became member of the Castle Square Stock company in Boston. re- moving thence to New York. where she
 had an important part in "Gallops" and later became a member of the Fifth Ave-
 nue Stock company in New York, where
 David Belasco saw her and subsequently,
 engaged her to appear as the leading wo- man in David Warfield's company in Tho
 Music Master" Her next step was when
 MT. Belasco starred her in The Rose of
 the Rancho" and finally her greatest triumph came when she created the role of Laura Murdock in 'The Easiest Way" This is her third season in this' | remapkable play.
 There Is funny story told of the Ly- man Twins, the famous comedians who appear here soon During the first day | of their engagement in Denver, some | time ago. one of the brothers went into
 the hotel barber shop to get shaved. On
 being accommodated he quietly put on his hat and coat and left In a few mo-
 ments In came the other twin and very
 unconsciously got into the same chair
 which his brother had just vacated and
 waited patiently for the barber to com-
 mence The barber of that chair on re-
 turning from the other room where he
 had been preparing bath and on seeing
 the twin in the chair, asked very arnaz- 1 ingly what he wanted A shave, said the | twin. On hearing this the barbers in the | shop looked at one another each with a puzzled expression his face. which became more so when the one assigned to do the job on feeling of the customers = face discovered the same growth of hair | there that he had just taken off, but | being ashamed to ask questions. went on
 with his work and finally ventured to say, 'I thought l done a better job than l that" That's all right said the twin, you must have shaved my brother"
 Not on your life," said the barber, you cant make me swallow that, know who shaved" Just then the door opened
 and in stepped the other twin. The bar
 Der looked foolish. gazed from one to the other, got hit with three or four wet towels from his companions and finally bawled out: Well, I'll be --i It's on
 me- The twin comedians each left with a good cigar. which was on the house.
 "The Girl from Rector's,' which comes
 to the Shubert theatre for a limited en- gagement shortly. enjoyed a run of oven 300 nights in New York. The piece origi- nally opened at Webers Music Hall sim- ply as ''try out" It was the intention
 of the producer. after it's success had
 been established, to close the playhouse | and reopen with ''rhe Girl at the cons | mencement of the next theatrical year, The offering, however, proved such a. re-
 marSable sensation that 1t continued It's
 run for seven months and was still doing
 capacity business when it was necessary
 to end their engagement in order to filI
 out of town contracts. Even the records established by Weber & Fields, when their productions were the rage of New York.
 were broken by The Girl from Rector's.s
 The work Is from the pen of Paul M.
 Potter. who won worldwide fame as the author of "Trilby."