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Mr. Craven’s Lighted First Night
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“He looks lean and poisoned. My father played the part with Mary Anderson, and he always kept with pride a notice by some William Winter of the time, who had written: ‘And Mr. John T. Craven’s Apothecary was a gem — it was so nice and thin.’ ”
“Actors,” I observed, “seem to make the best parents for actors. When a business man’s son tells him he wants to go on the stage his father, nine times out of ten, thinks he’s crazy.”
“Nine times out of ten he is,” said Craven. “But you’ll find a lot of actors who selected the proper parents — the Drews, Barrymores, Byron, Eddinger, Jimmy Gleason, Harry Brown. We’re going to start a club called Sons of Actors — sounds sort of profane, doesn’t it? There must be fifty of ’em in the Lambs. And down at Great Neck, where I live, we’re looking out for tomorrow. Wynne, Hazard, Santley, Truex and I have all got offspring who’ll take care of the future of the American stage. And Ring Lardner’s got a backyardful. He’s got to raise three to our one to supply our children with plays.”
“Frank, has your wife ever got over the first time you played one of your own unstuffed heroes here and all the critics commented on your unbeautifulness.?” “She’s either outgrown her indignation or got used to me,” he smiled. “Besides, she’s a good business woman and realizes that homeliness is part of my stockin-trade. I guess she also figures that when you have my kind of face nobody is worrying about how old you are or look — least of all me ! Being timeproof is almost as good as being beautiful.”
“And now tell me,” I asked, in the interests of the art of alcoholic impersonation, “can a man play a drunken scene when he’s ?”