Then an actor had to be an artist; there was no position for the little he-doll whippersnapper who draws the big money to-day and is ignorant of even the rudiments of the actor's profession." He allowed his glance to rest perceptibly upon Merton Gill, who felt uncomfortable.
"We were with Looey James five years," confided Mrs.Montague to her neighbours.

"A hall show, of course--hadn't heard of movies then--doing Virginius and Julius Caesar and such classics, and then starting out with The Two Orphans for a short season.

We were a knock-out, I'll say that.

I'll never forget the night we opened the new opera house at Akron.

They had to put the orchestra under the stage." "And the so-called art of the moving picture robs us of our little meed of applause," broke in her husband.