Evening star., 1921-08-28
AwRENCE Barrett and Ed
win Forrest were not the only
great aotors whose names

great ootofs whose names
~ were taken by dramatic clubs
In little old Washington. There was
John Mccullough. too! Thinking
back to the sos. when tho John Nc
Cullovgh Club was gay ana young.
many wsll-rsmembersd faces and
some Of them beloved, come before
me as write. These fair and snil-
ing faces that are with me have q
softsning haze about them. yet they
arc distinct. They smile at me and
those smiles are as bright as memory
can paint them. One merry ohap
seems to be saying: Put me in the
good old star and ask those with
they remember me. You know, I've
been away from Washington so long,
and 50 many changes have come upon
the town. and the fellows that are
stu there are 40 busy making ends
that seem awful big to them. that
know they haven't thought of me for
years. Remember me to them, Old
Top. and tell them that l say hello!"
Another face IS At my writing table.
IN e.. t.ss .y.: There The p. .1e ne
but joyously. 4 voice that know we'll
and liked to hear 10 saying: Don't you
remember those picnics we used to 20
"h.n ysu .ra .a you xs know Nv the the
woods, boil coffee and eat the sand
wiehes and pickles and preserves that
had been put up or VI At home? And
how all Of US used to sit under the great
the Devils Jump. which seemed to us
deeper and more fearsome than the
canon Of the Colorado. and talk Of what
We hoped 70 DO when We should 20 out
into the wide, wide world? We had no
to conquer 1t; We seemed rather to be
sorry that we were SO young. and
think We tried to talk as though we
had moro experience than really had
como to us. What larks" And the
down these lines. yet when ! brush
away the dream thoughts there Is
nothing about but the plain old table
1t which am at work, 4 row of
ragged books treasured in their tat
tsrs. and the walls Of my room with
such little souvenir. a. = man is apt
msntosa which TO anybody eise-to
everybody else-are only junk.
Let Us run over the names OF some
Of the actors In the John Mccullough
Club: There we're Jim Kearney. Eff
as Darling. George Erdm.n. ci.r-
susie Bowie. Belle Adams. Dave
Towers. George Crump. Frank Far
rish and David Cunningham. and per-
haps other names will come back to
me as push this story along. Yes.
WIN Lackaye. Tom Trodden and Hub
lMcCulioughs. Then. let US not forget
Maj: Charles Egan. The major gen.
orally served A. stage director and
the meeting place Of the club was on
q street between 9th and 10th. do
not recall what part of the square
tion Of Maj. Charles Egan the Ram
bier 10 too busy thinking about his
daughter Maud to care very much
about the particular location of the
meeting place. Maud was q beauty
ana all men In the club and several
knew this Just AZ we'll as the Ram
bier did. No man had a walkover
| there; there was too much competi-
ton.
l had q letter from JIM beg your
pardon for such familiarity-from
and his wife. who was Anita Rothe.
born in Alexandria but adopted by
Warrington. are living In New York
| when they are not travelling. Jim
tells me In his letter that he often
runs into Will Lackaye. Tim Murphy,
BILLY Ryan. Hans Roberts. Will Dority
chilly Dupont), Eddie wonn. Lavenia
shannon, Anita Hendrie and others in
New York. Remember me to them
Jim. the next time you meet 'em:
Tell Hans that I'm still writin' pieces
for the paper.
| Ysstsrday. after the Rambler fell to
thinking Of the people in the John
Mccullough Club he closed his desk at
the ofico and made little pilgrimage
1t was one Of those little pilHrimageS
solemn little pilgrimages-which do
| US good. He went to Glenwood ceme-
! terry and after straying among a thou
sand graves sat down on the grass
| under 4 big black oak whose shade
fell upon this tomb:
Darling. John A. Darling. March %. 1885,
| March 9. 1905. Tender Husband and Father.
Jemims Burlace Darling. January Is. 1881
EAe Darling Lefingwell January Is, 1851
March 81. 1915 Their Eldest Daughter.
There IL another line Of carving on
last put there, IL close to the sod and
grass has spread q screen over the
letters, but the inscription must tell
that Fred lies there. that he was the
eldest child and that he died in 1917.
The Rambler did not brush the grass
away.
lOF course. fellows thoughts when
he stands by the graves of old
friends are nobody else's business.