The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-02

volume Of who's Who In America"
And anything which who's Who"
says about any n Is said on the
word Of the subject Of the sketch him.
self: for tho explanation should be
made here. just in case that any Of
the readers gathered around this morn.
ing have through oversight or cattiness
never been permitted to ease them.
selves onto the pages Of who's who."
that the biographical sketches therein
are really autobiographics. Therefore II
Is on tho authority Of Gene Walter
himself that Who's Who says In
part:
walter, Eugene. playwright. Born
at Cleveland. November "a. 1874. Mar.
ried Charlotte Walker, December 4.
? Political and general news re.
porter OH Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleve-
land Press. Detroit Nctcs. New York
SuN, Globe, Cincinnati Post, Seattle
STIR at various times. Member First
Volunteer Cavalry. Spanish American
war. from April .: To october 90. 1905"
Get the 1908. Even actors know that
the Spanish American war was in
1898.
il would lie Just like Gene Walter.
now that the fact Is here published
thai lie waited ten years for the wal
Thoroughly to settle before he could
bring himself to volunteer. to afect
light laughter and a With a enap Of
hfS Atu,,r1. sIy. .
graphical error. old desr!" All. no. Mfr.
walter! Well do we Who-whoers
know that W. do no write our auto
biographies carelessly. n We know
also that the publishers Of the book
read the autobiographies submitted to
them so carefully that there's never a
slip gets 10y them. that they then sub.
NIT perfect proofs to the autobiogra-
piers IN Il further precaution, and that
they finally go over the returned proof
with "A microscope.
Typographical errors happen In
who's Who Mr.. Walter. just about
as often as you In the old days resigned
from the various newspapers you were
pried loose from. and only "A night or
" age YOU told us yourself between
the second and third acts of "Just A
Woman that you never resigned from
a newspaper In your life.
And mention of Just a Woman"
is a reminder that II would lie Just
as we'll to start of toward Bill
Brady's showshop and look In upon
the first act.
Once the portals Of the Forty
eighth Street Theatre had been
passed. however. delay again stared
us in T.. face. Right there in the
lobby stood Gene Walter. and We
asked hin casually how many news.
papers he had been fired from and
to name them. 1t was a long story.
We avoided the subject OF why he had
volunteered to he "a hero in a wal
ten years after the war had been won,
partly because the subject was a deli.
cate one. but chiefly because II had
nothing to do with a criticism Of "Just
a Woman" which vac our sole in
terest Of the evening. But as "a mat
ter of literary record we did ask the
playwright why 1t was that in his
Who's Who" autobiography he had
mentioned only seven of the newspa-
pers from which he had been fired.
"Oh. hush" was his somewhat eva
sive answer. why. I could have gone
on indefinitely listing papers I've been
on-and, get me. DO. I resigned
from one of them. mark you-but
don't lige autobiographgical ostenta-
ton. Leave that TO Congressman.
But right now I'll bet you the profits
of Just a Woman TO a bunch OF
bananas that you can tear out any
page of Lord Il Thomas's Directory
of the American Press and at leas,
one paper that tied a can to me viii
be listed on that page. And / wa.
some reporting guy too. men. but