A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life   By: Elsie Janis

A STAR FOR A NIGHT

A STORY OF STAGE LIFE

BY

ELSIE JANIS

WITH PICTURES FROM THE PLAY TAKEN ESPECIALLY FOR THE BOOK

[Illustration]

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

CHAPTER I

"ZINSHEIMER, OF NEW YORK"