Chapter I: Front Matter

A STAR FOR A NIGHT

A STORY OF STAGE LIFE

BY

ELSIE JANIS

WITH PICTURES FROM THE PLAY TAKEN ESPECIALLY FOR THE BOOK

NEW YORK

WILLIAM RICKEY & COMPANY

1911

Copyright, 1911, by BRUCE EDWARDS

Copyright, 1911, by WILLIAM RICKEY & COMPANY

_Registered at Stationers' Hall, London_ _(All Rights Reserved)_

Printed in the United States of America

PRESS OF WILLIAM G. HEWITT, BROOKLYN, N. Y.

_To My Mother_

ORIGINAL CAST

OF

A STAR FOR A NIGHT

_Produced at Charles Dillingham's Globe Theatre, New York_

"MARKY" ZINSHEIMER _Mr. Joseph Cawthorn_ MRS. BLACKMAN} Guests at {_Miss Jane Bliss_ MRS. GILDAY } the {_Miss Pauline Hathaway_ MRS. MARTIN } Claypool {_Miss Josephine Lachmar_ MRS. CARLIN } Hotel {_Miss Henrietta Pouts_ BELL-BOY _Mr. Al Stuart_ MRS. DAINTON _Miss Harriet Sterling_ VICTOR WELDON _Mr. Ralph Nairn_ SANFORD GORDON _Mr. Stanley H. Forde_ FELICE } Mrs. Dainton's {_Miss Josephine Kernell_ MURRAY } servants {_Mr. Jack Sullivan_ FLOSSIE FORSYTHE _Miss Elizabeth Brice_ MRS. KILPATRICK _Miss Margaret King_ MARTHA FARNUM _Miss Elsie Janis_ "PINKIE" LEXINGTON _Miss Julia Frary_ GEORGE CLAYTON _Mr. Wallace McCutcheon_ LIZZIE _Miss Olive Quimby_ ARTHUR MORTIMER _Mr. Gene Revere_ MRS. JANE ANDERSON _Miss Queenie Vassar_ MESSENGER BOY _Master Albert Lamson_ ARNOLD LAWRENCE _Mr. Charles Judels_ PHIL HUMMER _Mr. Charles King_

_Business Manager_ J. CLYDE RIGBY _Stage Manager_ E. C DONNELLY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

"Zinsheimer, of New York" 1

The English Actress 15

Introducing Martha Farnum 27

A Glimpse into the Past 49

Strictly a Business Bargain 63

"Where Everything is Homelike" 71

A Hundred-Dollar Bill 89

Sanford Gordon Reappears 103

Love and Ambition 121

The Underground Wires 133

In the Green-Room 143

An Overture and a Prelude 155

Before the Curtain Rose 167

The Morning After 183

The Final Reckoning 197

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Elsie Janis in a Few of Her Characterizations-- _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

"Marky" Zinsheimer (Joseph Cawthorn) 4

"Oh, that's Miss Farnum. She's old Mrs. Kilpatrick's companion" 28

"I haven't had an orchid this season" 84

"More flowers, and from a man I have never spoken to" 94

"I refuse to let you go, Martha" 98

"I'm sorry I'm so poor," sobbed Pinkie 102

"And glad I am to be back in your hospitable house" 114

"My boots have not arrived, I refuse to go on unless
correctly dressed" 162

Martha Farnum (Elsie Janis) 168

"This is infamous, infamous! I won't read another line" 188

"She looked like a turnip and acted the part artistically" 194

A STAR FOR A NIGHT