To Alfred Sutro, in January, 1913, on the current taste in plays:
These American plays with thieves, burglars, detectives, and pistols seem to be the real things over here just now. None of them has failed.
Memorandum for his office-boy, Peter, for a week's supply of his favorite drinks:
Get me plenty of orange-juice, lemon soda, ginger ale, sarsaparilla, buttermilk.
To Alfred Sutro, 1913:
Haddon Chambers sails to-day. You may see him before you see this. He leaves behind him what I think will give him many happy returns (box-office) of the season, as Miss Barrymore is doing so well with his "Tante."
To W. Lestocq, concerning one of his leading London actresses:
Miss Titheridge is all right, as I wrote Morton, if her emotions can be kept down, and if she can try to make the audience act more, and act less herself.
To Michael Morton regarding an actress:
She needs to be told that real acting is not to act, but to make the audience feel, and not feel so much herself.