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Drama 41
Jean Bennett Kilpack
Josef Emmett Whitney
Zambo C. MacLean Savage
Clotilde Kathryn Keys
Notable among this list of names are those of Arthur Byron, Constance Collier and George Probert. Constance Collier had just come over from England and this was her first appearance on Broadway. She is described as being of " the dark Egyptian type of beauty, with a capacity and power for portraying characters of the heavy melodramatic order."
At the conculsion of " Samson," Pauline went to French Lick for a rest and while there made the acquaintance of William A. Brady. Their meeting was somewhat unconventional. With some friends she wandered through the gaming rooms watching those who played at the tables. Pausing for a moment at one of the tables where the play seemed to be interesting, the man behind whose chair she was standing glanced up at her. Perhaps it was an excuse to speak to a beautiful woman whose blue eyes were twinkling with amusement, but the man asked her what number he should play. " Seventeen," she answered at random. He followed her hunch and the number won. When he turned to introduce himself, however, the lady had gone. Friends chided Pauline and insisted that she had known it was William Brady's chair behind which she had paused, but she stuck to her story that she had been quite unaware of his identity. If Brady had not recognized her, he took the trouble later to find out who she was and to make her acquaintance.
Pauline was now about twenty-five and the bloom of her beauty was at its height. Her taste in dress was exquisite and she was gradually becoming known as the best-dressed woman on the stage. Buying clothes was one of her greatest extravagances, for nothing gave her quite such a thrill. Her grace