We sent Somerset a picture of himself riddled with
bullets. And Mrs. Hicks made herself famous by
asking if it was that odious Dunraven they were going
to war about.

My article was a very lucky thing and is greatly
quoted and in social gatherings I am appealed to as a
final authority.

The football story, by the way, did me a heap of
good with the newspapers and the price was quoted as
the highest ever paid for a piece of reporting. People
sent for it so that the edition was exhausted. The
Journal people were greatly pleased.

Yvette Guilbert is at Hammerstein's and crowds
the new music hall nightly, at two dollars a seat. Irv-
ing and Miss Terry have been most friendly to me and
to the family. Frohman is going to put "Zenda"
on in New York because he has played a failure,
which will of course kill it for next year for Eddie,
when he comes out as a star. I have never seen such
general indignation over a private affair. Barry-
more called it a case of Ollaga Zenda. They even
went to Brooklyn when Eddie was playing there and
asked him to stage the play for them and how he made
his changes and put on his whiskers. Poor Eddie, he
lacks a business head and a business manager -- and
Sam talks and shakes his head but is little better.
Lots of love and best wishes for the New Year.

DICK.

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