The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-28

iAtNiu StHAi0lietH MilO hds bttl 6tNiiiS pleasure 1oi these many years to theatre goers with his clever air and inimitable mimicry
 It was all so sudden and impromptu, because, Honest Injun, I really hadn't expected to meet Jimmy Rosen any more than you had. that l scarcely knew what to say when this elegant little gentleman extended his hand in greeting and said he was "dee-lighted.
 'You are really not the Buster Brown that I've been seeing all these years. And that all the kiddies all over the country have been daffy about, are you?' I presently summoned wit enough to ask
 There is only one Jimmy Rosen,' aud although there have been many Buster Browns, l believe I have the honor of being the REAL Buster" said the di- minutite gentleman in voice that might have given the same intonation to King George of England, MT. Woodrow Wilson of eSagirt, or MT. Pierpont Morgan of Wall Street, so elegant and chaste and dignihed was the tone and so full of magic and charm that you stopped to wonder if if really emanated from his Lilliputian Highness.
 I'm very glad to be back in Birmng- ham, said MT. Jimmy Rosen, as he glanced up at me with a smile. 'I like Birmingham because the people have al- ways been mighty good to me and my shows here. l took my hat off to Bil- mingham Sunday evening as we were approaching the fiery furnaces on the train, and what do you suppose hap pened? l laid my lid in the seat beside me and some big old guy sat down on 1t and caved the roof in. Now, what do you think of that? I had to go shopping the very first shot out of the box Mon day morning to buy myself another bon net, but l didn't mind that, because I met so many of my eld friends here Funny how they remember fellow, isn't it?"
 Not in in some cases" l suggested. Everybody knows Buster Brown and the Newly Weeds baby"
 Curious you know" the little gentleman said, how ever happened to be an actor. You know 1 never had hankering for the stage and haven't got 1t now. Some how l never wanted to follow it as pro- fession, hut so often think a persons vo- cation in life is chosen for them, don't you? I was born in St. Petersburg, Rus aia, and I'm Jewish--orthodox-a proud as a Prince of my nationality, although I'm not a fanatic During the time of Alexander III there was uSase issued preventing those who were not of the lGreek Catholic faith from residing in cit | ies of a certain number of inhabitants, and that drove many families into other countries My people were among those i who left, and they settled in Winnepeg. From there we came to the States, and
 out in St. Paul l met Ineodore Hayes, d I biz Theatrical man, who persuaded me to
 SO on the stage. Now you have the story
 or my life in q nutshell"
 On. of course. I'm married" said Mir.
 Roseh as if anticipating by question. T married the very prettiest girl you ever
 saw. Perhaps you remember her last | season She played here at the Jefferson l in the Red Rose Esther Mancovitz is 1 her name, and she is out with the same company again this season. Yes, she's tall-taller than you are-probably about five feet seven inches. while I'm only three feet and fraction over, and I've reached the ripe old age of 33.
 'The Lilputians in New York have a little set all of their own" Mir Rosen went on to tell me- "and they have chris tened me the Dean l think this prob ably came about from the fact that so many of them have been by proteges. ] There's Master Herbert Rice, whom you no doubt have seen often. and Master Reid, whose wife, by the way, is leading lady for Harry Lauder over in England this season. Adolph ZinlS, whom I'm sure you remember seeing with Jerome Sykes in Foxy Cutler and The Billionaire "is one of my very best friends, and to quote his lines in the Cutler show, I have an irresistible impulse always to speak of