PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

COMMENCEMENT DAY

MY DEBUT

STUART ROBSON

JOHN McCULLOUGH

SIR HENRY IRVING

"BARRY" AND JEFFERSON

A SUNNY SON OF SOMETIME

CHARLES HOYT

SIR CHARLES WYNDHAM

CHARLES R. THORNE, Jr.

SOL SMITH RUSSELL

RICHARD MANSFIELD

IN VARIETY

ELIZA WEATHERSBY

SUCCESSFUL FAILURES

BACK IN THE EIGHTIES

THE HALCYON DAYS OF UNION SQUARE

THE BIRTH OF THE SYNDICATE

STARS

ATMOSPHERIC PLAYS

ACTORS PAST AND PRESENT

MAUDE ADAMS

TYRONE POWER

AN ARTISTIC SUCCESS!

THE SKATING RINK

NUMBER TWO

A FIGHT WON (?)

JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

W. S. GILBERT

HENRY E. DIXEY

SWAGGER NEW YORKERS OF ANOTHER DAY

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

DIGBY BELL AND DE WOLF HOPPER

BLAINE AND INGERSOLL

JIM CORBETT IN ENGLAND

THE COCKNEY CABBY COMEDIAN

A GILDED FOOL AND OTHER PLAYS

GEORGE M. COHAN

THOUGHTS VAUDEVILLE-BORN

JOHN DREW

"THE RIVALS" REVIVAL

WILTON LACKAYE

"YOUNG" MANSFIELD

DAVID WARFIELD

A DAY AT RENO

LILLIAN RUSSELL

DRAMATIC SCHOOLS

NUMBER THREE (ALMOST)

THE CONFESSIONAL

SAN FRANCISCO

ANTONY (?) AND CLEOPATRA

HONOLULU AND SAMOA

PUBLICITY ITS RESULTS

IN THE LAND OF THE KANGAROO

WELCOME (!) HOME

NUMBER THREE

WHEN WE WERE TWENTY-ONE AND OTHER PLAYS

AT JACKWOOD

"WHY DO BEAUTIFUL WOMEN MARRY NAT GOODWIN"?

BILLY THOMPSON

THE CRITICS

JAMES A. HEARNE

EDDIE FOY

WILLIAM GILLETTE

WILLIAM BRADY, ESQ.

ROBERT FORD

MORE PLAYS

WILLIE COLLIER

HENRY MILLER

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

I TRY BEING A BUSINESS MAN

THE FIVE FATEFUL FISH CAKES AND NUMBER FOUR

SIR BEERBOHM TREE

THE ORIGIN OF THE STAGE

MY STAGE-STRUCK VALET

GEORGE C. TYLER

I FIND THE VERY BEST PHYLLIS

THE LAMBS CLUB

I "COME BACK"

I "GO BACK"

DAVID BELASCO

"AUTHOR AUTHOR"

MUSHROOM MANAGERS

"KEEP OFF THE GRASS"

CALIFORNIA

I BECOME A BARNSTORMER!

NUMBER FIVE

L'ENVOI

INDEX

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