Show an anecdote of BIath ewa in my early days lays mathews was a true friend to me yes and in the later late r days too I 1 remember when I 1 first went to the st james theater I 1 went aa as stage manager and there were a lot of old actori there among them F frank rank matthews and walter lacy I 1 was a young man mall among these old I 1 admit to feeling nervous and was fearful lest I 1 might do something which the older men might resent the first day came all went very nicely and we were juet just com commencing to rehearse the 11 elles stratagem when who abell should skip on the stage but charles math c stopping the rehearsal for the moment b rushed up to tc frank ma ws we and walter lacy ah all frank my boy walterl one moment my young friend irving frank walter ho do kind to him goodby god bless youl and he was gone henry irving in strand magazine tie |