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Show The Right Sort of a Wife. I ' William H. Crane, the actor, vvho is just now earning so much money that he hardly knows what to do with it, may owe part of his success to his wife, who jnanagea him with a hand which, while dt is highly prized by the comedian, is none the less resolute and dictatorial. At one of the actor's symposiums conversation conversa-tion turnod on the subject of money making, and some one observed that Mr. Crane must be making as much out of his new play as he and Robson mads together to-gether in the best run of "The Henrietta." Hen-rietta." i "And now that you don't have to share with Robson you must naturally make double as much as you did boforo!" said the visitor. "Oh, no." replied Crane. "I have a partner still who takes a good deal more than Robson's share." . "Why, who is it?" was asked. ''Mrs. Crane," was tho reply. "I get , my board and clothes, just as I always have. I have one of those rainy day wives. It wouldn't do a bit of good if 1 earned ten times what I do now. I would only have good living and a fur lined overcoat to remind me that I was any more prosperous than when I played Lo Blanc at fifty a week." ' Four New York tnen who were present , complimented Mrs. Crane. '.. "You are not a New Yorker by birth," said one. "If you were, your husband would be bemoaning your extravagance." Philadelphia Press. - |