Actorviews (1923)

Record Details:

Title:
Actorviews
Date:
1923
Publisher:
Chicago : Covici-McGee, Co.
Volume:
Actorviews
Leaf #:
00079
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 02, 2023
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Jack and John Barrymore 4P -TAP -TAP -TAP! on the Barrymore door at the Congress Hotel. No answer. Bang! Bang-bang! “Come in ! Why don’t you come in?” His back is to the door, which I close behind me. He is bent over a desk, laboriously writing with a short pencil on a yellow telegraph form. He speaks without looking up or turning: “Please open one bottle now — and see that the others are kept cool.” Have I unwittingly trapped the drama’s most illustrious young water-wagoner in the act of “falling off” at one a. m.? “I’ll take the same,” I say, risking it. “I beg your pardon, old man,” he says, half-rising, half-turning, and giving me the hand that does not hold the pencil — “I thought you were the Bevo.” And as solemnly as may be, two fairly sane men recite in unison the silly College (Inn) cry that was composed by Lou Houseman on the occasion of Jack Barrymore becoming John: “Be-vo, Erst-while Barley-corn, Barry-more .”