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Updated: September 16, 2025
The retirement of Archibald Florance from the stage a couple of years earlier had caused crimson gleams of sunset splendour to shoot across the Atlantic and irradiate even the Garrick Club, London, so that the members thereof had to shade their offended eyes. Edward Henry had never seen Archibald Florance, but it was not necessary to have seen him in order to appreciate the majesty of his glory.
"I am nothing!" he thought modestly. Nevertheless, though the savour of the name of Archibald Florance was agreeable, he decided that he had heard enough for the moment about Archibald Florance, and that he would relate to Mr. Sachs the famous episode of his own career in which the Countess of Chell and a mule had so prominently performed. "I remember " he recommenced.
They used to say he was the cruellest, but it's not so. Though of course he could be a perfect terror with his companies." "And so you knew Archibald Florance?" "You bet I did. He never had any friends never but I knew him as well as anybody could.
It's saved me twenty-five cents. I asked how. He said, 'I was just going to send you a telegram of congratulations. He liked me, old Archibald did. He still does. But I hadn't done with him. I went to stay with him at his house on Long Island in the spring. 'Excuse me, Mr. Florance, I says to him. 'How many companies have you got on the road? He said, 'Oh! I haven't got many now.
Florance wrote his own plays sometimes, but it was only his acting and his face that saved them. And they were too American. He never did really well outside America except in one play, and that wasn't his own. Now I was out after money. And I still am. I wanted to please the largest possible public. So I guessed there was nothing for it but the universal appeal.
"However, I was too angry to stand for that sort of talk. I said to him: "'I daresay you're a very great and enviable man, Mr. Florance, but I propose to save fifteen years on your twenty-five. I'll equal or better your position in ten years. "He shoved me out just shoved me out of the room.... It was that that made me turn to play-writing.
'Well, I said to myself, 'I'm going to get back into that theatre somehow! So I went up to Archibald's private house Sixtieth Street I think it was and asked to see him, and I saw him. When I got into his room he was writing. He kept on writing for some minutes, and then he swung round on his chair. "'And what can I do for you, sir? he said. "'Do you want any actors, Mr. Florance? I said.
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