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Show HOW ROOSON BECAME AN ACTOR H First Received Encouragement From ' the Great Webster. H Stuart llobson tells this story of jLaaaal how ho becamo an actor. B "I had run away from homo In Ilal- H thnoro nnd hnd drifted to Washington j with my playmato, Arthur Puo Gor- ilil man, now a senator-elect from Mary- laud, and for several weeks I was on H tho vorgo of starvation. Gorman had ' a lot of push and ho landed as a pago lasssfl In tho ilenato, but somehow I couldn't , connect, but I used to hnng about tho M capltol Just tho samo, and ono day H I remember It well, becauso It wns H marked by sort of .dull, red clouds, 'H that now Is spoken of as tho 'Yollow jH Day' tn Washington Gorman camo to H mo nnd said: " 'Hob, If you sco Dan Webster lto'll 'H fix H "I was astonished at tho nssuranco H of Artlo Gorman, but I saw Mr. Wob- H ster, and within a week through hla M Influence, strnngu ns It may seem In ,H tho light of history, I was mado a pago 'H In Congress. Daniel Webster, Toombs ot Georgia and Jefferson Davis acting H ns my sponsors. il "I served two terms ns a pago and ,H ono afternoon I received nn Invltntlon jH from John Sleeper Clark and Edwin jH Hooth to Join a company which they jH had Just formed In Ualtlmoro, to tour jH Dolnwaro and Virginia in Shnkcspear- jH Ian plnys. I did not know what to do. My mind was In chaos. I wanted to 'jl bo better than n page, and yet I had jH a yearning for tho stage. It was at jH this timo that I mot Mr. Webster. Ho 'M wns hurrying toward tho Sonnto cham- jH "I said to him, 'Mr. Webster, I havo H had an offer to go on tho stage' H "'Indeed' replied Mr. Wcbsto'r. jH '"Yes, sir,' I replied, timidly, 'and 1 do you think It a great chance for H " 'Yos, my boy, I do,' answered Mr. H Webster. 'You woro cut out for an H actor, and not for a statesman. I saw jH you yesterday laughing at one of An- H drew Johnson's Jokos, and your laugh- H tcr fooled mo for a minute. Go on tho H Btngo, my boy. That Is whero you H belong.' jH "And I went on tho Btngo, and I am jH still on tho stage." Daltlmoro Sun. H |