I'll get my salary, or part of it, rather, Monday, so I'll send you more then and also tell you what I think we should do. I would like to go to Miss if we could get it for $6 a week, or $25 a month but I don't like to pay $7.50, that's too strong if we can do cheaper. Of course, if we can't we can't and that's all there is to it. Let me know as soon as you get this money as I am only sending it wrapped up as I don't want you to have to cash so small a check as $3, so that's why I am sending it this way.
I bet you I get some good things out of this world for her yet, just watch me and see. . . .
Her husband,
Pocahontas flivvered out in three weeks. But as Shakespeare says, "Sweet are the uses of adversity." While Mr. Griffith was away, I found time to make myself a new dress. In a reckless moment I had paid a dollar deposit on some green silk dress material at Macy's, which at a later and wealthier moment I had redeemed. So now I rented a sewing machine and sewed like mad to get the dress done, for I could afford only one dollar-and-a-half weekly rental on the old Wheeler and Wilson.
By the time "A Fool and A Girl" was to open in Washington, D. C., there was just enough cold cash left for railroad fare there. Klaw and Erlanger produced the play under Mr. Duane's direction, and Mr. Hackett came on to rehearsals in Washington. Fannie Ward and Jack Deane played the leading parts. Here they met and their romance began, and according to latest accounts it is still thriving. Alison Skipworth of "The Torch Bearers" and other successes, was a member of the cast.
The notices were not the best nor the worst. They
