“He must have seen the perplexity in my face, for he said: ’Mr. Belasco, I can raise $20,000, which you can have if you will help me. You have assisted stammerers!’ I couldn’t tell him that a limp was a different matter. Nevertheless, I resolved to see what I could do for him. ’I’ll not take a cent of your money,’ I said, ’but if you will do as I tell you, we’ll see what can be done.’ He agreed and there followed a regular campaign against a limp. It was my idea to eliminate the defect through exercises. He worked faithfully. He walked, he lay on his back, practising stretching exercises; he studied the balancing of his body, throwing the weight so that his short leg could be brought down slowly to the floor, without any perceptible stooping of the shoulders. I had a shoe made, with a deep inner sole, to take the place of the unsightly shoe he wore when he first called upon me. After a year of daily work, when he was ready to enter the school of acting, his limp was so slight that it was barely perceptible! When he became leading man for Julia Marlowe, whom he afterwards married, who could have detected his deformity? His is a most remarkable instance, and I have often recalled it. For it is an example of what ambition and perseverance can accomplish, but few artists would be willing to practise the self-denial and go through such rigorous training.” [Robert Taber was born in Staten Island, New York, in 1865, and he died, of consumption, in the Adirondacks, in 1904.--W. W.] THE TRUE SCHOOL IS THE STAGE.