Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-01-26 | Page 4 | Fletcher's Career Started by Twain

flETCHERS flETCHER'S GA CAREER EE STA TED BY TW IN Charles Leonard Fletcher tho the actor Betor author and golfer I who heads tho the new newbill newbill bill which op opens ns at Loews Loew's Empress Friday Fri Fri- Friday day afternoon of or this week got his start starton on the tho stage b by Imitating Mark rk Twain It was at a I. I dinner party where here Twain himself was a guest and after attel Fletcher had finished his Impersonations Impersonation Twain arose and with the peculiar drawl In hl his speech said C Gentlemen this Is III a revelation revelation rovela- rovela tion lion to me me- me me-I me menever I n never ncr knew before that I Iwas Iwas Iwas was so 80 handsome The success that crowned this Impromptu effort on the part of oC Fletcher marked the tho turning point In his career While he went soon Boon after Into tho the le legitimate and has played In companies comp s headed beaded by Richard l Sir Henry Irving Stuart Robson and ana and l other Illustrious stars he ho always had a n alove alove love for Cor the work ho he hIs Is engaged In now that was ns strong enough to keep peep him In vaudeville where he h has s been a headliner head head- liner tiner He likes like to reproduce the characters characters charac charac- he has lIae been familiar with Ith As a bo boy boj he ho know knew the poet Longfellow Ions well and his impersonation of ot that gentle genUa spirit Is a treat trea t even to those of oC the generation that came after r Longfellow had passed sed awa away In addition to being a Q vaudeville headliner headliner head head- liner Fletcher is le ono one of the most expert golfers golfers In the countr country and Is possessed I of a n. love for tor the th that r game ame th all nU un r f tho those e not acutely with