The Other Girl

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Excerpt from The Other Girl: A Comedy in Three ActsMummy and the humming-bird He was the Mummy and Mr. Guy Standing was the Hum mind-bird but the second hit Of the performance was made by the character part of an Italian organ grinder played by Lionel Barrymore. The manager, Mr. Charles Frohman, liked the association of uncle and nephew, and the two family names of Drew and Barrymore, and was in search of a new play that would permit its continuance.In the Spring of 1902 I was about sailing with my wife to take Our two children to school in France, and as C. F. Said good-bye he added Write me a play for John with a good part for Lionel, I need it early in the season That was an agreeable assignment, and it filled such places in the sum mer's prospect as amateur courier's duty left open.In The Mummy, Mr. Drew had been a preoccupied and inferentially desiccated husband. Mr. Barrymore had played an unwashed and al most inarticulate Italian with no English speech but much effective pantomime. A play with two parts to follow these should Obviously be as different as possible. Mr. Drew. Should be young, and Mr. Barrymore should be American and have somewhat to say. The playwright's obvious obligation was to avoid suggesting even remotely the types the two gentlemen had just portrayed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.