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in many of whose services Bennett had toiled as leading man, frequently to their great disrelish. He had a way of pocketing the performance. I take it that you remember his delicious Scotchman, played with Maude Adams in “What Every Woman Knows.”
“C. F.,” he said, “would sometimes look at me more in sorrow than in anger and call me his starkiller. But one time he was glad I’d killed.
“That was when I played with Carlotta Neilson in ‘Diana of Dobson’s/ I got some laughter out of my part on the opening night, and Miss Neilson seemed to be paying more attention to what I was doing than to her own work. She fell into an emotional faint after the last curtain. She said I shouldn’t have got those laughs in a play that presented a serious episode in the life of a shop girl. She said on my account the play would have to close.
“I saw C. F. next day and told him now I’d done it — insulted his star and ruined his play.
“ ‘Dick,’ he said, ‘it’s the biggest thing you’ve ever done for me. I’ve just received a note from Miss Neilson in which she says she’d like to withdraw. I’ve hastened to accept the withdrawal. You’ve saved me from a five years’ contract with a temperament.’ ”
“Dick,” I said, in the interest of history, “did Maude Adams like to have you around?”
“Don’t remind me!” he sighed. “But since you do, I’ll tell you a telegram I sent to Maude the night she opened in ‘Chanticleer/ It said:
“I congratulate you on the realization of your fondest ambition — at last you are your own leading man.’ ”