Show I I I I SOME STORIES OF IRVING J New lew York Yok Sun Sunt Once On at a reception given to Henry Henr Irv Iri Irving ing lg at one of the te London Londo clubs cUb where there was at least 0 present I intro du I a youn young actor acor named Thurston Thuraton to him There was only time for tor Ter a bow and smile sil and we passed p to make room rm for th tho exigent persons in the tle rear The Th next net year fer Irving Iring was in New Ne Yoi Ytri Yoac K Kand and aD Thurston Thurson had come over ever ee with era ern er A reception r pUn was wa hoW held at the tite Lotus Loto J ot club for Irving and a being bS out fut ff of f town t I my Invitation to t who I Thad had Just JUt Imil was wu hr bri 11 I O thought t that a as a er he be would wul greatly th enjoy etoy It an and him m to po He IU dw did and AM d he l dk i rotated mInted to tu m me ma Afterward that on OR the stair th stir way as Irving with a wih a little patty party was W on the way to the th cafe mt met pry face ace to tC face Iring Irving Stopped toPP d shook hook Ibok anis fc and said I I am very ve glad lad to Jf see e vou ou again ant Mr Kr Tin Thurston ton l t It II bd bad b d that t our fiend friend jend Dod Do Dodon on caI rat rn oc ho her h r ou There re was I r w 3 about OUt tha Hil Arter ter an Interval of man ra aith ith functions anil ant an I m with mpr lonS h s of or me I mn n moon mn minds he be had remembered wu meats hesitation the man his ham nany a l place Ints of o meeting and an also als that I l had hau lal u uI eto t e ete the Uie introducer te I 1 spoke to him ne n e about tiis his b and he looked rather rathe 0 of t If he lie had hd never given fin sv n th the ti ra thought relapsed for lor a moni mont t Int i mo r and gud n came cm again to t the lf u Well Wel perhaps perhaps I ha haj bar hav j you ou know the tM quick jerky jerk ws way he 4 Ia say thet tbt I he went on recent ode episode at a little UttIe meat Blent given Yen n ns tAo other ot r night t at ate a awe we e were discussing early days day y of e a lIr and I turned o a man present aj f It was wan when we pa t aY d it v referring to a quoted quote Incident The man a well non n wn boi surprised ur d then annoyed and v tRi H Iti nr r bl later uster remarked i jp m rut L Lector actor ector Mr lr J I rt EI Im Im a plain bain l A business bushiest man manOh Oh Ob but you YOLi were actor act tor n at II III T time Ume I 1 repeated in la a little louder VOT vo or orand I 1 and then t en of ourse ever bod StOp i t HalteD as nobody had vp tip p to UJ that t at ir n the slightest that he lu h es been beeD on the stage SUp a i fact fatt it was waa r is Ux tee lee which h he wanted want for souse SOUK re on i to lo keep hid 1 I persisted pen in my assertion aM K II blistered and nd bellowed ellow d mow more and ami molt Ie contradiction At last I flicked th J JOff Off my ty Cigar car ansi and said id Of cour oun O Ow were wr w not t playing under your pr then You were Mr ThO name nane ni it was aM it at tIN the Theatre Ro Royal al He gave up the game then the laughed as asIt atif It was wal all aU a good Joke and aDel confessed tnt that 1 i ws was light lightWell lightWell Well ell that shows I mid aid thai ilai t have Raft a phenomenal memory me H years yean was It treaty sled and you sa saman saman ti tio timan o man had changed the of his Ial and aDd his nae naneT It lt shows said Mid Irving in that quil little way of or his Itt the man ma W wp f it damned e bI to te MM Jae e in h 0 C pany PlIny that I forget him bun It if i hili wanted to JK Irving Irvin had bad the gift gilt of m ir jr speech to an extent that I think is fir At the time Ume when wilen he be literally woke 10 up jp t I find himself famous after years fears of sa playing cul in hit hie hl K w n rendition of or Matthias Matthis lr It TI Tb Bells Belle Bel he was one of 0 r the most a k It w r rand r rand and of speakers kerli HP H quoted this disability dl and becam f for lor his brie pithy speeches as emphatic In III wit as they thet wy tr trIn in savair faire paralleled only by bv th he made before the tile curtain One night at the tM Garrick cl b T h hll only a nucleus of ot the members rema remaiN after the home bome hour some Ome ten or a dos doe C men perhaps more were gathered bur aMu burthe the fire in the smoking room T T e a 1 that Tree was w there i Carr Charles Charies Wyndham Joseph Kt lin linthe the critic Edmond Guise John Hart Harp Harthe the usual remnant with Irving sitting hunched bunched up In his hla chair lost loat In a and smoking smelting the incessant cigar Then a certain actor came In H R dead now flow He w WI waS I a charming charIn until he had drunk a little too much a ahe ar J he was as a ugly as u the he devil He himself into the be circle drawing a cha ha between Irving and his neighbor to f I Idlee discomfort dlee of both and a weighty sll n fell on Oft UK us all At length he looked about and 00 gUnn first at one ODe then at another celebrity remarked rem in a harsh strider tone which usually accompanied this Epe specific elite mood I It ft is a most t ot distressing d thing to m mi gentlemen gen men that in these degenerate we have no BO actors acton who are n of nf supporting those cherished traditions ns the tIM stage which died w died an when Garrick was no mere mese Still silence He continued and then thea UM the others with without it tr trout i out taking any notice of kim him went r I with their conversation from th the point where it had been b n dropped at his r trance I 1 am not to be quieted by this clam or ur he be remarked after a moment I r rr peat that we have ve no actor at the present pem nt time that are carrying carryl g on the cherished traditions f f the stage By Heaven n there is II not r f n who can even be called an all actor bv b th U most ascot lenient critic He Re fixed John Hare Hat for a moment and Hare gentle as IK lit litwa was waa looked daggers at him There Th le was waa at that time as ala alnas s 5 considerable stress str laid bald upon the thi fact th the Irvings Irvines elocution was faulty an aol that thai he h mouthed his words Our friend eliciting no BO response brushed aside the tite suggestion of Tree that he be go co home borne and turning to Irving said The remark that I have just Juat mad ado Mr Irving apply particularly to YOU ou friend Mr Beerbohm Beer boh m Tree To you I 1 say sn that we have not among us u an actor T ihu hy can even speak tINt the Queens n Irving InIn hunched along a little further r in m his hIli chair and our ur friend maundered on nn for a bit with a special pecla insult 1 tn to o each elich sometimes Umee calling the names nun outright then satisfied with a gesture or r glan Finally he turned to Irving ant ana fairly shrieked Would that I could find some far off oft island laland some island blaiR In the distant seas lieU where I could never again gain have my eyes blasted by b the sight of tragedians tragedian who wh hI walk like Ilk damned triangles yes yea Mr tr fry trine t frying ine ing like damned triangles tria Recalling Re Irvines Irvings peculiar gait pit you ran cut ca Imagine the sensation We expected an as a outburst for human hman nature had jut JUSt jI f about reached the limit of endurance but with a little move of ot the head and haul han 1 Irving merely ely said That a I pretty good idea of yours our about a far off oil retreat reat why y don dont t jou IU 1 try the Softly SellI It was a timely Jest It H destroyed tl tension tD and restored things to the th normal normil again |