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Chapter 1 COMMENCEMENT DAY
Chapter 2 MY DEBUT
Chapter 3 STUART ROBSON
Chapter 4 No.4
Chapter 5 SIR HENRY IRVING
Chapter 6 BARRY AND JEFFERSON
Chapter 7 A SUNNY SON OF SOMETIME
Chapter 8 CHARLES HOYT
Chapter 9 SIR CHARLES WYNDHAM
Chapter 10 No.10
Chapter 11 SOL SMITH RUSSELL
Chapter 12 RICHARD MANSFIELD
Chapter 13 IN VARIETY
Chapter 14 ELIZA WEATHERSBY
Chapter 15 SUCCESSFUL FAILURES
Chapter 16 BACK IN THE EIGHTIES
Chapter 17 THE HALCYON DAYS OF UNION SQUARE
Chapter 18 THE BIRTH OF THE SYNDICATE
Chapter 19 STARS
Chapter 20 ATMOSPHERIC PLAYS
Chapter 21 ACTORS PAST AND PRESENT
Chapter 22 MAUDE ADAMS
Chapter 23 TYRONE POWER
Chapter 24 AN ARTISTIC SUCCESS!
Chapter 25 THE SKATING RINK
Chapter 26 NUMBER TWO
Chapter 27 A FIGHT WON ( )
Chapter 28 JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
Chapter 29 W. S. GILBERT
Chapter 30 HENRY E. DIXEY
Chapter 31 SWAGGER NEW YORKERS OF ANOTHER DAY
Chapter 32 JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
Chapter 33 DIGBY BELL AND DE WOLF HOPPER
Chapter 34 BLAINE AND INGERSOLL
Chapter 35 JIM CORBETT IN ENGLAND
Chapter 36 THE COCKNEY CABBY COMEDIAN
Chapter 37 A GILDED FOOL AND OTHER PLAYS
Chapter 38 GEORGE M. COHAN
Chapter 39 THOUGHTS VAUDEVILLE-BORN
Chapter 40 JOHN DREW
Chapter 41 THE RIVALS REVIVAL
Chapter 42 WILTON LACKAYE
Chapter 43 YOUNG MANSFIELD
Chapter 44 DAVID WARFIELD
Chapter 45 A DAY AT RENO
Chapter 46 LILLIAN RUSSELL
Chapter 47 DRAMATIC SCHOOLS
Chapter 48 NUMBER THREE (ALMOST)
Chapter 49 THE CONFESSIONAL
Chapter 50 SAN FRANCISCO
Chapter 51 ANTONY ( ) AND CLEOPATRA
Chapter 52 HONOLULU AND SAMOA
Chapter 53 PUBLICITY-ITS RESULTS
Chapter 54 IN THE LAND OF THE KANGAROO
Chapter 55 WELCOME (!) HOME
Chapter 56 NUMBER THREE
Chapter 57 WHEN WE WERE TWENTY-ONE AND OTHER PLAYS
Chapter 58 AT JACKWOOD
Chapter 59 WHY DO BEAUTIFUL WOMEN MARRY NAT GOODWIN
Chapter 60 BILLY THOMPSON
Chapter 61 THE CRITICS
Chapter 62 JAMES A. HEARNE
Chapter 63 EDDIE FOY
Chapter 64 WILLIAM GILLETTE
Chapter 65 WILLIAM BRADY, ESQ.
Chapter 66 ROBERT FORD
Chapter 67 MORE PLAYS
Chapter 68 WILLIE COLLIER
Chapter 69 HENRY MILLER
Chapter 70 WHAT'S IN A NAME
Chapter 71 I TRY BEING A BUSINESS MAN
Chapter 72 THE FIVE FATEFUL FISH CAKES AND NUMBER FOUR
Chapter 73 SIR BEERBOHM TREE
Chapter 74 THE ORIGIN OF THE STAGE
Chapter 75 MY STAGE-STRUCK VALET
Chapter 76 GEORGE C. TYLER
Chapter 77 I FIND THE VERY BEST PHYLLIS
Chapter 78 THE LAMBS CLUB
Chapter 79 I COME BACK
Chapter 80 I GO BACK
Chapter 81 DAVID BELASCO
Chapter 82 AUTHOR-AUTHOR
Chapter 83 MUSHROOM MANAGERS
Chapter 84 KEEP OFF THE GRASS
Chapter 85 CALIFORNIA
Chapter 86 I BECOME A BARNSTORMER!
Chapter 87 NUMBER FIVE
Chapter 88 L'ENVOI
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Chapter 32 JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

It was just after I had learned of the serious illness of that delightful poet and blessed friend, James Whitcomb Riley, the Bobby Burns of America, that I penned the following:

How cruel of Nature to take one of her favorite children if she decides to!

Why make humanity weep and chill our hearts?

Why cause the Indiana flowers to cry for a

             
            

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