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Show A stage favorite Avho has a pet cat is William Gillette. His pet is the famous "London Lyceum Cat." Some years ago it was discovered prowling about the Lyceum stage by none less than Sir Henry Irving himself. Like Miss Marlowe with "Kitten Dobbin," Sir Henry adopted the cat and the Lyceum theater became its home. Gillette, who has an unsuspected tender side to his nature, took a great fancy to the cat during his last engagement en-gagement at the Lyceum, while he was playing Sherlock Holmes there. As the building soon was to be torn down, he asked Sir Henry for the cat, and the great English actor made a present of it to his distinguished American, olleague. The majority of stage people have dogs for their pets. When Faversham takes up the study of a new role he signalizes the event by "laying in" a new bull terrier. As he does not care to run a kennel, he gives the last one a away as soon as he acquires another. 'McBud," a fine specimen of his favorite canine bieed, was bought to "nail" his role in Imprudence. Faversham may not care to keep a kennel, but Miss Maxine Elliott does. Jackwood, a charming country place on the Thames and not far from London, where she and her husband (Nat Goodwin) Good-win) usually spend their summers, has ample space for kennels and Miss Elliott has a splendid lot of brindle bulldogs there. One of her favorite favor-ite tricks, when Nat oversleeps is to drive the whole kennel of them, yelping, into the house and right up to his bed room door, and then stand there and pretend to rebuke them and drive them out again, as if she were incensed with them for disturbing her husband's slumbers. |