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Show SNAPSHOT PRIZED BY ACTOR. Camera Cat-'it Sir Henry Irving In the Act of Sne-zlng. Sir Henry Irving has in his possession posses-sion a photograph taken many years ago, in which ho is thp center of a small group of people, which ho says nothing would mako him part with. Tho occasion on which tho photograph was taken was the landing of Sir Henry Hen-ry Irving and simo of tho members of his company from an Atlantic liner, and a snap-shot artist who was there took a picture of tho group Just before they left the vessel. The weather was cold and raw, and Jut as tho camera was about to snap Sir Henry st-rted to sneeze. Tho photograph pho-tograph represented him, well in the foreground of tho group, with his face drawn and contorted, In tho very act of sneezing. In showing the photograph to some friends one day Sir Henry remarked: "I prizo that photograph moro than any I ever h-d in which I appear, because be-cause it rep. sents mo in an entirely unconventional light." -r Now York Times. |