The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-23
Sudden Leap Into Large Profits Earned by Bgge
Successes, The Music Master and The Lion and
theN1ouse ---Cenerosity His Ruling Characteristic

"t'll take II to Palmer" 7 said.
80 lod-by." said Klein. Call me In
six mouths"
took the script TO A. NJ. Palmer
on Friday afternoon. He laughed
languidly and laid 1t on one side OF
his desk. We talked of the weather
and went away.
ON Monday ] received an electric
thrill: Your play is accepted: call
at once" 1t was hard to persuade
Klein that 1t was real. He sat like one
dazed while Palmer said that he had
read IN" play through mistake. He
had told his man tn put Clarke's play
in his cap on saturday. meaning a
play by Curson Clarke that | have had
unread for six months"
Henry Miller did play in IT, and il
gave him In some respects the best
part " his life. lie played 1t two
complete seasons, and off and on for
seven years 1t was In it's first form
& modern play and thus many pre-
fcrred it to its eighteenth century
costume version made later under
Charles Fruhman's management TO
meet "A suppos 81 demand for roman
tic color ia our drama at the time.
klt~n WIS now doing nicely in "A
worldly way. Charles Frohman en-
rploycd him as play reader for two or
three fIrs. pf his work in that office
Klein '>id that H. had never received
a play thlt f'rohman produced. Tho
salary had helped over some rough
places. mt the time in the office began
to hinder more than tn" pay helped
Play followed play with rapdity
He wrote number of librcttos for
comic operas. some. like "a Royal
-'gue." with sldesplitting comedy.
hut not nearing the vogue of "El
Captain" the first with the towering
DE Wolf Hopper and the liliputian
Alfred Klein in the parts Of hero and
helper all set of by the dash of
Sousa's music.
The Cipher Code" was really an
rborted collaboration with Bronson
Howard turned 'nto a complex melo-
DRAMA field that after n few more
trials he wisely let alone.
He lad a great windfill nt this
period. Meeting Sol Smith Russell
one day on Broadway, tho lank player
81 sympathetic parts asked him II he
had play for him.
Yes" said Klein
We'll what is it like" and Klein
Lincoln play.
Good" said Russell; send me a
scenario"
S1id Klein 20 me that evening. Il
tndn't an idea when | met him. hut
when n" asked me | looked AT him
50 answered him. | must 20 home
and scratch up something" In six
weeks he had written the play and
went ioyouslv 10 Europe on tho swift
process of Hon. John GrCshy' Tn
fortunately Russell died that year.
His hest period was now at hand.
/ Two things Of note happened 10 him
he fen into the bands of David Be-
lasco and also Joined the ranks Of
Christian Science.
The grueilinC which marked the no
ginning Of his Belasco experience was
| especially trying. II IL long story.
and Whichever side the right hy.
Klein suffered for a couple Of years
md'r appointments that he found
II hard 20 boar
y pl"tsau, period Of his life was
his series Of summers at MorricwolG
Park In sullivan county. y. Y, whore
/ he had bought a cottage. He had a
tennis court and played irccssanrIv.
almost hoyishiy. There was a dra-
matte group " cottag,rs. and some
are there yet, hut kl.iu's name is
writ large over tho charming place