“Actors are the Most Incessant Jokers Alive.”
I have been the subject of some actors’ jokes, and enjoyed the fun as much as any one. May Irwin had two sons, who early in life were susceptible to the seductive cigarette, against which she cautioned them earnestly. I entered a restaurant one day where she and her sons were dining, and she called me over and gave me an opportunity to become acquainted with the little fellows. After I left them, one turned to his mother and asked:
“What makes that little man so short?”
“Smoking cigarettes,” she replied. And they never smoked again.
He Smokes Cigarettes.
Willie Collier invited me one summer to his beautiful home at St. James, Long Island. He was out when I arrived, and when he returned, Mrs. Collier said to him:
“You’re going to have Marshall P. Wilder for dinner,” and Willie replied:
“I’d rather have lamb.”