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“Daly is the oldest youngest actor on the American stage. And he loves to be interviewed. Wind him up and listen to him rave.”
Of course I laughed when Mr. Goodwin said that; and Mr. Daly made some impertinent remark concerning interviewers : like press agents, they always get the actor to do their work for them. He held me by the shoulders while Mr. Goodwin toddled to the stage for a momentary appearance in “Why Marry?” and he beseeched me to read Thomas Burke’s just-published book of London Chinatown stories, “Limehouse Nights.”
“Burke is an Irishman,” said the other one, “who writes in language that stains your brain. All modern literary men of consequence are Irish. Even the Russians try to be Irish. I’d rather talk literature than politics ; I know more about them than I do of the stage — I’ll leave it to your friend Smith of the Chicago Express.” This last witheringly.
Of course I haven’t any friend Smith and Chicago hasn’t any Express. But even at the peril of slightly misquoting Mr. Daly I am not here to have my friend and colleague publicly pickled in the brine of Mr. Daly’s wrath.
“Your friend Smith of the Express,” Mr. Daly went on, “is peevish because I do many unconventional things. If I had used the methods in vogue on the American and English stage for the last hundred years, and discounted for the last fifty years in France, Spain, Italy, even Germany, he would not have found me unconventional. I fancy he obtained his ideas of art in Peoria.”
“Doctor,” commented Mr. Goodwin from the door,