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Thus the curtain fell and cheers echoed from the auditorium to the little dressing-room where the big red apple waited on the table. Many productions had come and gone since the first red apple appeared at the premiere of Captain Jinks. And many eulogies have been spoken since that time, and much criticism written. But none of it is as true as trie three sentences which came from the gallery of the old Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, when Captain Jinks had its opening performance preparatory to the Manhattan run. It was Miss Barrymore's first long and important role. She was somewhat nervous with her opening lines, and not quite audible.
"Speak up, Ethel," called a god of the gallery. "You're all right. The Drews is all good actors."
Heywood Broun—"An uneven performance in an indifferent play."
Alexander Woollcott—"A still engrossing play . . . brought to glowing life by the magnificence of Ethel Barrymore."
*My YEARS ON THE STAGE—John Drew— Button ($5.00).