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Title: A Star for a Night
A Story of Stage Life

Author: Elsie Janis

Release Date: September 21, 2010 [EBook #33785]

Language: English

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[Illustration: ELSIE JANIS IN A FEW OF HER CHARACTERIZATIONS.]

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 LAW