The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-12
Dolly Discovers Manager With Talent and Brains Pus,
 In the Person of MT. DeWitt Newine Round at the Bou
By DOLLY DALRyMpLE
AVE discovered Something.

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 It is nothing more or less than
 = manager" who not only knows
 how to manage" but who can act as 1 we'll
 It is not often that a manager"
 makes big 'hit"-not once in a hun
 dred years does such thing happen, because not many managers" are ac-
 tors too%but we've got to take our hats
 off to MT. Dewitt Newing as the one exception to a tradition that is as old as the stage itself
 From the premier performance of the
 excellent stock company round at the Bijou, when Mr. Newing played so clev-
 erly the role of Jimmy Gilly. in
 Bought and Paid For" up to the pres
 ent moment. he has gotten all the com
 pliments coming to him and then some
 He has talent and brains plus and besides all this he's a dandy good pub | licity man. press agent" in other
 words; he's editing a paper called 'The 1 Tip which gives all the news each week about the actor folk at the Bijou. and he selects the plays. finances the situation, handles his public successful ly; so what more could one man be ex- 1 pected to do?
 | 1 have most wholesome respect for
 MT Moving; he acts, he sings, he dances, he 'coaches," he selects the costumes, he chooses the plays, he "rehearses"
 the company and through everything he keeps his manner of courtesy and affa-
 bility and even the newest and greenest addition to the company is never hurt
 or abashed, but always feels kindly to- ward the man who has brains" that work.
 MT. Newing is really quite remark able person, and when he tells you in his frank, unaffected way that when he was little news boy toddling about the streets of his home town up in New York. when he was only about years old, dreaming but never imagining for
 moment that he'd be real live ac- tor, and how at last his fondest hopes were realized, you feel like shaking hands with him all over again and con- graduating him that pluck and determ- nation won the day for himl And wasn't there a bit of luck too
 mixed up in the business?" I asked,
 
 "the sad, sad story of his life" be told to me when MT. Newing was almost re-
 luctant to throw any light on the sub- ject yesterday.
 T don't believe there is any such thing
 as luck,' he said emphatically. I believe
 that any man who makes good in any line of business makes his own opportunity and doesn't wait like Mir Micawber for
 Something to turn up Don't you re-
 member how Jimmy Gilly kept saying, If only had the chance I'd make good?'
 Well, that's the way with lots of fellows.
 They are always waiting for the chance, instead of making 1t. I have no sympa- thy for the man in this great, big, broad world so- full of opportunities--plenty to go round-who sits back and waits for his luck to turn''
 Tn my own life this has been exempli- fled so thoroughly" Mir. Newing went
 on to say. that couldn't possibly doubt it. When I decided to make my pipe dream of being an actor come true, ] went to New York and went right in for what I wanted. secured position when l was very young to play with the Murray Hill Stock company, the best in the country. It has turned out a great many stars; in fact nearly everybody who ever trained in that company has
 made good. Frances Starr is a shining 1 example. Robert McWade. who is now playlnS m hoillns Stones, ana Who played so brilliantly the role of the so- cialist lover in the all-star cast of Years of Discretion at the Belasco theatre year before last when Fife Shannon, Her bert Kelcey, Bruce Henry, V. Donnelly of the old team of Donnelly and Gerard. who played Natural Gas and all those clever old farces, owned and ran the Murray Hill stock company. When I ap- piled for position was asked if knew anything about acting. I said mo- When they asked me what I'd done I was ashamed to tell them what I'd been doing for the last job I had held down was that of a street car conductor. ringing up fares if you please. But told the truth and that made hit and I was given a part in Mistress Nell which was the
 show they were playing at that time. An
 odd coincidence happened the first night I went on. The newspapers had not been