Actorviews (1923)

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Why Managers Don’t Love Mr. Bennett HE notes for this interview are written on the back of a green laundry list which Richard Bennett plucked from a nail as we went out the stage door of the Princess. He said it would harmonize with our chop suey. He was in high spirits. He had just died with pitiless realism the death of Robert Mayo in “Beyond the Horizon,” and the reaction was perfect. Mr. Bennett never cries over his own death scenes ; he was dry of eye and humor. On our way to the terrible dish he loves he talked lightly of fall hats, Joseph Medill Patterson, shaving creams, motor cars and caps, Joseph Conrad, Abraham Lincoln, Hinky Dink and a necktie board that irons ’em while you sleep. Confronted by his fatal dish in a dim-lit den in Wabash avenue, Mr. Bennett himself introduced the subject of American theatrical managers ; among whom the unpopularity of this very fine actor is almost unanimous. “r should like,” he said, “to play in some sort of Oriental ‘Way Down East’ where Pd have to eat this stuff every performance. I never in my whole life had a chance to eat real food on the stage till I got in ‘Passers-By’ — and then Alf Hayman, in the interests of economy, changed the property plot to read papier