Famous actors and their homes . of an annual invitation affair,have been strictly club events. Every year also the Lambs have their washing, — an outing at the country placeof some member. The club also owns a pas-ture, the country seat of Charles H. Hoyt,which he bequeathed, together with a fundfor its maintenance. Poor Charlie Hoytwas one of the friskiest Lambs and in lovewith the club. Those who have held the office of Shepherdlongest, Lester Wallack and Clay M. Greene,were in that position each for seven Greene has been in many ways a valu-able member of the club. Other Shepherds
Famous actors and their homes . of an annual invitation affair,have been strictly club events. Every year also the Lambs have their washing, — an outing at the country placeof some member. The club also owns a pas-ture, the country seat of Charles H. Hoyt,which he bequeathed, together with a fundfor its maintenance. Poor Charlie Hoytwas one of the friskiest Lambs and in lovewith the club. Those who have held the office of Shepherdlongest, Lester Wallack and Clay M. Greene,were in that position each for seven Greene has been in many ways a valu-able member of the club. Other Shepherds,besides those already mentioned, have beenFlorence, Edmund M. HoUand, and DeWolf Hopper. Mr. Greene again is thepresent Shepherd, and Thomas B. Clarke isthe Boy. Since the incorporation of the Lambs as a[ 201 ] FAMOUS ACTORS club its doors never have been closed to itsmembers. The first house rule in the Lambsbook is believed to be unique in reads : The clubhouse of the Lambs shallnever close. [ 202 ] THE PLAYERS. yr would be difficult to pointout the differences between theLambs and the Players with-out quite unintentionally run-ning the risk of possibly hurtingsomebodys feelings. Perhaps the simplestmethod of differentiating them is to say thatthe Players is purposely the more dignified ofthe two, while the Lambs, equally with pur-pose, is the good time club of the dramaticprofession. I think I also can say with safetythat in some ways the Lambs means moreand comes closer home to the actor than doesthe Players. The latter is quite out of the theatrical dis-trict. Its handsome house is in an old-fash-[ 203 ] FAMOUS ACTORS ioned neighborhood (and still an excellentone). No. 16 Gramercy Park. It is a fineNew York mansion done over; the groundsrun back to the next street, as do also thoseof the house adjoining, where Samuel J. Tildenlived, so that there is an outlook on the parkfrom the front and on a broad garden spacefrom the rear, and the house was deliveredto th
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