[Gutenberg 3834] • Hassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five acts

Excerpt from James Elroy Flecker's Poetic Prose Play "Hassan" Arranged for Production on the Stage

When Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the most beautiful and fascinating actress of her time, wrote her memoirs, My Life and Some Letters, she made the confession that, of all men the in the world, it was Horatio Bottomley who financed N elson's Enchantress when forbes-robertson put it on at the Avenue Theatre in 1897, and that, afterwards, he financed Hamlet at the Lyceum when Mrs. Campbell played Ophelia, and also found the money for the tour which forbes-robertson and Mrs. Pat made in Germany, to be called nerve aristocrats by the Germans, and to be told by the Kaiser, I wish you would teach my actors not to shout.

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