RENCE _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"

Stick a pin in the map of southern Indiana, half an inch to the left of
Lost River, and about six hours from the rest of the world, as time is
used to measure railroad journeys, and you will find a speck called
French Lick Springs. Hidden away in the hills, so remote from the
centers of civilization that only wealthy inebriates and chronic
invalids can afford to visit this out of the way, yet expensive, spot,
French Lick has other attractions