Famous actors and their homes . rose on thelittle chaps last resting-place. There, little fellow, he said, have onewith me. [ 14S ] FAMOUS ACTORS Whenever, thereafter, on his trips to Eng-land, he visited Brompton churchyard, he hada flower for this grave; and when, a few sea-sons ago, Mrs. Sothern went abroad alone,almost his last injunction to her was, not toforget that boys mound at Brompton. With all his tenderness, Sothern adds to itscharm a delightful vein of humor. I haveseen a photograph of him taken when he wasa youngster, on which he has written, Thisis a picture of myself in my cele
Famous actors and their homes . rose on thelittle chaps last resting-place. There, little fellow, he said, have onewith me. [ 14S ] FAMOUS ACTORS Whenever, thereafter, on his trips to Eng-land, he visited Brompton churchyard, he hada flower for this grave; and when, a few sea-sons ago, Mrs. Sothern went abroad alone,almost his last injunction to her was, not toforget that boys mound at Brompton. With all his tenderness, Sothern adds to itscharm a delightful vein of humor. I haveseen a photograph of him taken when he wasa youngster, on which he has written, Thisis a picture of myself in my celebrated charac-ter of my own father. For is it not said that the child is father to the man ? The Sotherns have a handsome freestonehouse in West Sixty-ninth Street, near Cen-tral Park, W., in New York City. There isa handsome grilled entrance, and Venetiangrillage guards the lower windows. Anysombre 9,spect which might result from thisis offset by the bright potted flowers behindthe griUage. The haU is roomy and arranged[ 144 ]. Copyrighl, 1902, by J. ByronE. H. Sothern and his Wife in the Main Hall of their Home <§ THEIR HOMES for sitting. The walls are decorated withmounted heads of wild beasts ; near the broadstairway is a jar full of weird javelins, and onthe stairway landing a tall clock. Noticeableis a deerskin, head and all, thrown over thebanister. Back of the hall is the dining-room,where again there are heads of wild animalson the walls — an especially fine one of a boar— and a chest of silver, all tributes to E. , E. H. Sothern, and Virgie. Theroom is furnished in heavy black oak. The hall of the second floor might be calleda HaU of Fame, —not of E. H. Sothern,but of his father, — for its most conspicuous ob-ject is a screen cabinet full of relics of the elderSothern. The drawing-room is in green andsilver, and is done in the style of the threeLouis. On the floor above are the library,where Mr. Sothern does much of his work,and some of the bedroo
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