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usual, when someone spied the Gerry man out front. It was just before the moment when Little Eva fans into the river and the manager dared not await any longer than was absolutely necessary to substitute me. I've often wondered what the audience thought when Eva came out of the river a head taller and several years older than she was when she went into it."
Bessie Barriscale met Howard Hickman when they were playing in stock at the Bush Temple theater in Chicago. He was the villain of the company and perhaps this lent him an added fascination, for she fell in love with him almost at first sight. Her mother, however, disapproved, not of Mr. Hickman, but of Bess getting married at all just at that period.
"She thought I was too young; that it would ruin my career — oh dozens of things. She was utterly heartbroken over the whole affair. There being nothing else to do, we eloped. Poor Mother! For her, it was like the end of the world!
"We are very happy together," she went on, "and I think much of this is due to the sacrifices we have made in order not to be separated. Frequently, we have accepted engagements where we could be together when we could have made twice as much money and had very much better parts, if we had bsen willing to work separately."
This was the chief reason that they "went over" to the pictures. At present,
The Howard Hickmans have signed the Food Pledge. Here it is in the window.
Like so many others, Bessie Barriscale and her husband "went over" to the movies so they could be together.
Miss Barriscale's first appearance was with James H. Hearne in "Shore Acres." "I never think of him without at the same time thinking of peanut brittle," she said. "He must have kept me constantly fed up on peanut brittle. I have the same vagueness of impression about Margaret Anglin, with whom I worked the following season. All I remember about her is her way of saying, 'Oh, DON'T do that, Little Girl!'"
Bess has played everything from Little Eva, in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to the children of Shakespeare with Louis James.
"The last time I played Little Eva," she said, "I was a great deal too old for the part. The company had taken me with them on tour in case the little girl playing Eva should be removed by the Gerry society. One night, the performance commenced and was going along as
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