AN ACTOR'S EXPERIENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 13099, 4 November 1908, Page 8

AN ACTOR'S EXPERIENCE.

Mr Rutland Barrington, the actor, tells an amusing experience which once befell him. Returning home from the theatre one night in a underground train, he got into a carriage, the other passengers of which were, engaged in an animated discussion of tlm characters of eminent theatrical folk. In due course Mr Barrington’s name came up, and, lying low in his corner, the genial comedian soon learnt more about himeslf than he had ever known before. For the first time in his life he realised what an unmitigated scoundrel ho was. He had been divorced, he never paid his debts, he drank like a fish, and generally he was a villain of the deepest dye. But before leaving he had his revenge. Addressing his astonished fellow-travellers in dulcet tones, he observed : “ I am very grateful to you for having told me so much that I did not know about Rutland Barrington, particular.y so because, you see, I am Rutland Barrington.” “In all my stage experience,” Mr Barrington adds, ‘‘l have never made a more effective exit.”