April 9 Friday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Henry (Harry) Edwards:

I am to talk to a club of young ladies here the next morning on a weighty philosophical subject….I thank you and Mr. Wallack [Lester Wallack, actor, theater owner] sincerely for the invitation, and am very sorry to miss the dinner and the social good time; but engagements to the sex take precedence of all other kinds of debauchery [MTP: paraphrase: Anderson Auction Co. catalog, Nov. 22, 1922, No. 1685]. Note: On Jan. 20 Sam turned down another invitation from Harry (Edwards’ obituary claimed he was never called Henry, though Sam always addressed him as such).