RESTING
How our Actors are Recruiting
MR BOURCHIER is spending his vacation on a walking tour with Mr Walkley and Mr Max Beerbohm. Mr Bourchier’s Eton slouch is the admiration of all who see it.
MR GERALD DU MAURIER is paying a round of country-house visits, and doing very well. His swag last week included two diamond necklaces and a rope of pearls.
MR TREE spends his days learning the harp, and his nights setting fire to various provincial towns. As he cheerily puts it. “Adsum.” “I am on the spot.”
THERE is no doubt that Mr George Alexander would enjoy a rest. His part in His House in Order is real (flannel) collar-work. When free, he intends to make a series of stays with young married couples in order to settle their disagreements for them.
MR CHARLES HAWTREY is devoting his leisure to the exploration of Darkest Bayswater. The expedition, which includes Mr Kemble, Mr Aubrey Fitzgerald, and Mr Weedon Grossmith, was last heard of in the Portobello Road district. The natives are at present friendly, but so little is known of the perils of that desolate country, that the friends of the explorers are subject to the gravest anxiety, and eagerly await further news.
MR SEYMOUR HICKS and Miss Ellaline Terriss are spending a few weeks in Dublin; and one of the features of the coming theatrical season will be the second edition of The Beauty of Bath in Erse. A part is to be written in for Mr Tim Healy.
MR DION BOUCICAULT has attached himself temporarily to New Scotland Yard, and is to be turned on to the next big murder mystery. Mr Boucicault has a system of detection all his own. Veteran sleuth-hounds confess themselves baffled by his methods.
GASCONY is the spot to which Mr Lewis Waller has retired. He has fought, to date, fifteen duels with the rapier, and won them all.
MR G P HUNTLEY is rabbit-farming at his charming little house at Ippleton. He is also interesting himself in apple-growing. His article in the current number of the Fruiterers’ Gazette, entitled “East Wobsley as an Apple Centre”, has excited considerable comment.
IN PREPARATION for a possible revival of The Admirable Crichton, Mr H B Irving has obtained a situation as butler in an Earl’s household. His total of broken plates is now eighty-seven, including twenty-three which came apart in his hands.
MR CYRIL MAUDE is in the country, looking after his Shore Acres and a cow.