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Show OAnRYMOnGS AftE uniaitT. Actor, Now laaane. Was Unaa a r.Uow JJ Maurlcluaf ryniore'u"o 'tfntoxvinaw' I actor who has ontertslned tens of thousands In his time, but is now hopelessly Insane, had a fund of anecdotes an-ecdotes with which he notcr wearied of entertaining hla friends. One ot tho latest stories ho told at tho Lambs' club was of a wordy encounter between be-tween himself and an Kngllshman who believed, as do many llrltons, In tho entire superiority of everything English Eng-lish to what Is American "You outstrip out-strip ua In only ono particular," said llarrymore, "In England there aro better Englishmen" Tho foreigner thon spoko ot differences In tho spelling spell-ing of words. "For Instance," he asld, "the word honor' should be spelled h-o-n-o-u-r, but Americana spell It h-o-n-o-r." "Yes," replied Uarrymore, "when wo spell 'honor1 we leave 'you' out." Uarrymores children have on both sldea a wealthy herlUgo of cleverness. clever-ness. Their mother, the late Georgia Drew Ilarrymoro, was a brilliant woman wom-an and the possessor ot a keen vein of wit When her health became Impaired Im-paired Mrs. Uarrymore removed to California, whero she died. Whllo sho was there In Idleness a benefit wss planned for a charity and Mrs. Harry more was asked to appear. As sh was under contract to Mr. Frohman and could not play without his permission, permis-sion, sho wired him at length, requesting request-ing permission to glvo a performance. In reply to her wordy dlsputch came ono from the manager which was aa abnormally short as hers had been long. "No," waa all It said. Mrs. Uarrymore Uarry-more forthwith sent an acknowledgment acknowledg-ment of her manager's message, It simply read "Oh I" |