Chapter I: Front Matter

EXITS AND ENTRANCES

_Photograph by Claude Harris, London, W._ Frontispiece
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EXITS AND ENTRANCES

BY
EVA MOORE

_WITH TWENTY ILLUSTRATIONS_

“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.”

—_As You Like It._

LONDON
CHAPMAN & HALL, LTD
1923

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
THE DUNEDIN PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH

TO HARRY

_Whose words head each chapter of what is really his book and mine_

EVA

21 Whiteheads Grove, Chelsea.
“Apple Porch”, Maidenhead.

July, 1923.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. HOME 1

II. THE START 16

III. WEDDING BELLS 29

IV. PLAYS AND PLAYERS 43

V. MORE PLAYS AND PLAYERS 60

VI. FOR THE DURATION OF THE WAR 74

VII. THE SUFFRAGE 89

VIII. PEOPLE I HAVE MET 101

IX. PERSONALITIES 116

X. STORIES I REMEMBER 131

XI. ROUND AND ABOUT 143

XII. A BUNDLE OF OLD LETTERS 172

XIII. HARRY, THE MAN 187

XIV. HARRY, THE PLAYWRIGHT 200

XV. HARRY, THE ACTOR 215

XVI. AND LAST 228

APPENDICES 241

ILLUSTRATIONS

EVA MOORE Frontispiece

FACING PAGE
Dora in “The Don” 21

Harry, November 19th, 1891 24

Wedding Bells, November 19th, 1891 28

Harry as Howard Bompas in “The Times”, 1891 30

Pepita in “Little Christopher Columbus” 37

Madame de Cocheforet in “Under the Red Robe” 48

Kathie in “Old Heidelberg” 61

Lady Mary Carlyle in “Monsieur Beaucaire” 66

“Mumsie” 71

Miss Van Gorder in “The Bat” 72

Eliza in “Eliza Comes to Stay” 102

Harry as Lord Leadenhall in “The Rocket” 124

Harry as Major-General Sir R. Chichele in “The Princess
and the Butterfly” 142

Harry as Little Billee in “Trilby” 187

Jill and her Mother 194

Harry as Widgery Blake in “Palace of Puck” 199

Harry as Major Blencoe in “The Tree of Knowledge” 218

Harry as Touchstone in “As You Like It” 222

Apple Porch 237