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ONCE UPON A TIME By JOHNSON BRISCOE March 17, 1905. — Zena Keefe (Equitable) had for several years been associated with that popular melodrama, ‘‘The Fatal Wedding,” in which she played the role of Jessie, the little mother, but it was such a long part that she alternated it with another little girl, Cora Quinten, there being considerable rivalry between the two of them. It is to be hoped that this day they had a jolly time of it — -tho it is an open question ! — celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, at the Grand Theater, Wausau, Wis. March 18, 1900. — Arthur Maeklev (Mutual) had then little thought of acquiring as a trade-mark his “sheriff” habiliments, at this moment being stage director and character man of the Hopkins Stock Company, St. Louis, where upon this Sabbath day he was to be seen as Flamant in “Sapho.” March 19, 1909. — Paul Scardon (Vitagraph) was vainly endeavoring to tide himself over one of those barren periods which practically always come along in the career of all actors, trying his hand at a vaudeville sketch, of which Nance O’Neil (Lubin) was the star, playing a deputy sheriff in “$1,000 Reward,” at Keith & Proctor’s One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Theater, New York. March 20, 1905.— -Dorothy Gish (Triangle) found it a very easy task to hold her audience captive every time she spoke a line, as little Hope, in that splendid object lesson, “Her First False Step,” which began a week’s engagement at the Bijou Theater, Jersey City. March 21, 1882. — Charles Kent (Vitagraph) wras playing juvenile parts in this long-ago, as a member of the stock company at the Boston Theater, Boston, and he probably could, if he would, tell some very interesting tales of this particular occasion which marked the Boston premiere of the big English melodrama, “Youth,” which had a run of eleven weeks, Mr. Kent being cast for the role of Owen. March 22, 1907. — Fay Tincher (Triangle) was probably not in a particularly happy frame of mind at this time, because she had just reached the end of a Broadway engagement of thirteen consecutive Meeks, being a member of Joe Weber’s company at Weber’s Theater, and she had the joy of speaking lines right out in public, in the role of Mabel Peck, in the burlesque, “Dream City.” March 25, 1901. — Fannie Midgley (Ince), who has endeared herself to screen patrons thru her able work in various character disguises, M’as cutting comic capers with a liberal hand, as Primrose, the negro cook, in “BroM’n’s In Town,” M’hich, after a season of much strenuous travel, had settled doMn for a week at the Crescent Theater, New Orleans. March 28, 1898. — Charles Arthur (Fox), whose busy stage career embraced the drama, stock, vaudeville, and musical comedy, was having a fling, at this time, at the last-mentioned, playing Lord Comarthy, son of the Earl of Kilbeggen (which role, incidentally, was filled by the present-day American director, Thomas A. Ricketts), in Rice’s “The Ballet Girl,” which opened a week’s engagement at the Harlem Opera House, New York. March 29, 1911. — Gail Kane (Equitable) was making a modest bid for histrionic fame, this being her first year behind the footlights, at this moment playing the small role of Miss Doane in “As a Man Thinketh,” in which John Mason wTas starring, at the Thirtyninth Street Theater, New York. March 30, 1906. — EdM’ard Earle (Edison) had not then embarked upon the musical-comedy career in M’hich he M’as afterM’ard destined to knoM such striking success, for he was playing in the support of Bertha Galland, being both the Master of Ceremonies, in the prolog, and Darby O’Donovan, in the play proper, in “SM’eet Kitty Bellairs,” which this night was a sort of attraction de luxe, at the Elyria Theater Elyria, Ohio. March 31, 1901f. — Marie Doro (Lasky) was ambitiously climbing the ladder of fame, having just left the frills of musical comedy behind her, appearing at the Lyceum Theater, NeM’ York, in the support of William Gillette, with whom she played Lady Catherine Lasenby, in “The Admirable Crichton.” April 1, 1909. — Gertrude McCoy (Gaumont), who had no thought then but to serve Thespis behind the footlights, being reasonably sure that she could hold down the center of the stage when the opportunity came her way, Mras a delightful feast for the eye as she pirouetted about the stage of the Princess Theater, Toronto, Can., a member of the supporting company surrounding Lulu Glaser, in “Mile. Mischief.” April 2, 1912. — Antonio M. Moreno (Vitagraph) was serving a brief term in the musical-comedy field, seemingly quite at home, too, playing the role of Stubbs, in “The Man from Cook’s,” a Klaw & Erlanger offering, which Mas not having an especially brilliant run ( Sixty-two)