"Corp is a bit fidgety about it, because he says I have two to love me
already, but I feel confident that I can manage more than two.
"Trusting to see you at the Cuttle Well on Saturday when the eight
o'clock bell is ringing,
"I am
"Your indulgent Commander,
"T. SANDYS.
"P.S.--Can you bring some of the Lyceum armor with you, and two
hard-boiled eggs?"
Henry Irving once thought of producing Mr. Barrie's play "The
Professor's Love Story." He was delighted with the first act, but when
he had read the rest he did not think the play would do for the Lyceum.
It was the same with many plays which were proposed for us. The ideas
sounded all right, but as a rule the treatment was too thin, and the
play, even if good, on too small a scale for the theater.
One of our playwrights of whom I always expected a great play was Mrs.
Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes). A little one-act play of hers, "Journeys
End in Lovers' Meeting"--in which I first acted with Johnston
Forbes-Robertson and Terriss at a special matinee in 1894--brought about
a friendship between us which lasted until her death. Of her it could
indeed be said with poignant truth, "She should have died hereafter."
Her powers had not nearly reached their limit.
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