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Why Managers Don’t Love Mr. Bennett 139
“Because I said I’d rather be in a Henry Arthur Jones failure than in a Morosco success.”
“Why doesn’t A1 Woods love you?”
“Because I said he’d gone bed-bugs and needed a vermifuge.”
“Why does Broadhurst regard you coldly?” “Because,” smiled Bennett, “I said he’d read the third act of Brieux’ ‘Maternity’ to write ‘Bought and Paid For.’ ”
“Why doesn’t Winthrop Ames take you to his heart?”
“Because I also have intelligence.”
“Why don’t the Selwyns send flowers to your first nights?”
“Because Edgar would prefer to send them to my funeral. Time and again in stock in the West I’ve played his ‘Pierre of the Plains’ and got a bigger run than he got in the original New York production. I’ve not only done that with his play and his part, but I’ve told him about it.”
“What’s Joseph Grismer got against you?” “Nothing but the fact that I told Alexander Woollcott, critic of the New York Times, that ‘Way Down East’ was made out of Charles Reade’s ‘The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth.’ ”
“Why are you not a favorite in the Shubert offices?”
“Jake won’t have me around because I knew his brother Sam when Jake was the office goat. Now Jake treats me and everybody else the way the office used to treat him.”
“Why doesn’t Belasco love you ?”
“But he does!” Bennett laughed; and added: “I’ve never played in a Belasco production.”
It was but a step from managers to women stars,