g, and has so much to
do with the priest in the story, I wonder if he will think many times of
what might have been his career had he not gone to the theater so often
while waiting for that ship to sail, back there in his 'teens!

Apropos of the production of "Les Miserables," Lackaye was asked some
years ago if he had yet found a manager to bring it out for him.

"Bring it out?" he repeated. "I have yet to find one who can pronounce
it."

Which, now, in the sequel, is an implied compliment for William A. Brady.

At one stage of his career, Lackaye's chief claim to distinction was his
refusal, while a member of Daly's company, to accept a part to which Mr.
Daly had assigned him. The part was _Oliver_ in "As You Like It," given to
him after he had made a hit as _O'Donnell Don_ in "The Great Unknown."

It was the joking remark made at the time, that for the _Oliver_ Mr. Daly
offered him, Lackaye handed him a _Roland_ in the shape of his
resignation.

ROYLE TOOK MANY BUFFETS.

Author of "The Squaw Man" Has a Run
of Ill-Luck to Thank for His
Success as a Playwright.

Edwin Milton Royle, author of "The Squaw Man," is another of that
countless army brought up to the law and who sidetracked themselves to the
stage. He spent his youth in a place that seems to breed actors so
freely--Salt Lake City--where he attended the same Presbyterian school as
Maude Adams. He is now on the sunny side of fifty, having graduated from
Princeton in 1883.

Amateur theatricals at college are responsible for the lure that drew him
to the professional footlights. After Princeton he went to continue his
studies in Edinburgh, and there he took prominent part in a great
performance of the students that had among its spectators some of the most
prominent men in Great Britain.

On his return to America he set about studying law in New York, but he did
not really settle down to it. The inclination toward the stage had by this
time become too strong to be resisted. He began to make a tour of the
manager's offices in search of an opening.

In this he had no better luck than usually falls to the lot of the
unknown. Men in power along the Rialto did not know what he could do, and
it was not to be expected that many of them would take the time to let him
prove his abilities. At last, however, he secured, through Eugene W.
Presbrey, an interview with the late A.M. Palmer, who gave him the small
part of the boy in "Young Mrs. Winthrop," at