Musketeers," and soon
caught the eye of Belasco, who featured her in "Under Two Flags." Her real
arrival, however, was with "The Darling of the Gods," which brought her
seven hundred and fifty dollars a week salary and a percentage of the
receipts, not a mean advance from the twenty dollars she had been getting
from Frawley less than five years before.

MILLER'S STAR OF DESTINY.

It Led Him from His Native London,
Through Canada, and Finally to the
Old Lyceum Stock Company.

Henry Miller was born in London, but brought up in Canada. He was only a
schoolboy when he chanced to read a magazine article about Henry Irving.
This fired him with the ambition to act, but he set about realizing it in
a most matter-of-fact and sensible way.

Instead of running off to join some theatrical troupe as a super, he began
the study of elocution under the late W.C. Couldock, best remembered
perhaps as the worthy miller, father of _Hazel Kirke_. This was at
Miller's home, in Toronto, and here he had four years of grounding in the
text of Shakespeare.

He was barely nineteen when the chance came, at a Toronto theater, for him
to show what his studying had taught him. He was assigned to the part of
the bleeding _Sergeant_ in "Macbeth," and the very fact that the company
was merely a scratch affair, not far removed from the barnstorming
category, really worked to young Miller's advantage.

He was the first leading man with the old Lyceum stock, in "The Wife," and
the second at the Empire. In 1899, he expressed his greatest ambition as
being the management of a New York theater. This he has realized the past
winter at the Princess, where he organized and produced "Zira" for Miss
Anglin.

STORM FOR MISS RUSSELL.

As a Child of Ten She Excited Rose
Eytinge's Anger Because She
Lacked Experience.

Annie Russell, like Miss Bates, comes of theatrical stock, so the door to
the stage was on the latch for her.

Miss Russell's first appearance took place in Montreal when she was ten
years old, and was preceded by a heart-breaking episode. Rose Eytinge was
playing "Miss Multon" against Clara Morris. Two children are needed in the
piece, and when Miss Eytinge ascertained that one of them--_Jeanne_,
assigned to Annie Russell--had never been on before, she was furious.

"Do you want to queer the show when so much depends on it?" she demanded
of E.A. McDowell, her manager.

The girl, Annie, chanced to overhear her, and fell