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Show friend to the end of her life. Leslie's Weekly. - BARRETT'S HELPING HAND. By way of "getting experience." a great many students in the schools of acting do "supe" duty at the downtown down-town theaters, and it is in this way some of them get their first engagements. engage-ments. During Miss Fischer's student year Lawrence Barrett was playing "Julius Caesar," and he sent to the schools of acting for people to go on in the mob scene. Miss Fischer volunteered, volun-teered, and when she marched up to the great star with all her magnificent Romanesque beauty, he exclaimed: 1 "Ha! She Is the noblest Roman of them all." and placed her where she would "dress the scene" to the best possible advantage. After the rehearsal rehears-al he asked another student who the tall girl was, and she answered, '.'We call her the tall sycamore from the Wabash." This caugnt Mr. Barrett's fancy, and he began to take a personal interest in her, so much so, in fact, that through him she received her first engagement and counted him & warm |