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as he calls it — the top flat in Piccadilly Chambers. I 

 tell you it seemed to make a real home-coming when 

 tlie telephone brought Frank Curzon round, and I 

 heard all about their joys and sorrows the previous 

 year over Sunstar, By the way, in writing an article 

 on the prospects of the English Derby in February, 

 1911, for a New York paper I gave Pietri as the best 

 on public form, but said there was a wonderfully good 

 colt, an outsider, Sunstar, who might create a surprise. 

 I sent Mr J. B. Joel a copy of the paper : what a 

 prognostic ! 



Marsh Allen was playing in The Glad Eye, with 

 Lawrence Grossmith, and both were getting home. 

 I should like to see both of them in melodrama ; believe 

 me, I am right. Marsh's marriage to that talented 

 Anglo-Italian little lady. Miss Marie Bazzi, was another 

 function I assisted at. I have got out of dramatic 

 criticism except with that work on the Jockey. New 

 young men have come to the front ; Edmund Gwenn 

 is one I have a very high opinion of as a character 

 actor. His is real cleverness as opposed to drawling 

 or eyeglass parts, which one is apt to get a little 

 tired of. 



There is a curious affinity between the stage and the 

 turf, and this can be noticed either at the play or on a 

 race-track, but it is a little tiresome to see a racing man 

 singled out for some special attention from the stage ; 

 it's too music-hally. The only man who can do it 

 without interfering with the run of the jokes is Graves. 



George Graves I found the same as ever. I was 

 with him on that Boxing Day afternoon on which he 

 was due, in 1909, to make his first appearance at Drury 

 Lane. He was not anticipating it with the fullest 

 glee. He was seeking distraction, and he and Lindo 

 — Arthur Collins' right hand in many things — came 



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