[When The Gadfly asked Julius Knight what he thought of hero worship on the stage, the popular actor smilingly replied, “ask the ladies.”]

And what will you say, my Julius?
   What will the ladies say?
Will they heave soft sighs, and wobble their eyes
   In a sentimental way?
Will they giggle and snigger about your figure?
   Or gush in a manner gay,
That Julius Knight is just too quite
   A duck of a thing?  Well, nay.

She would say, if we asked her, Julius –-
   If we asked a lady fair,
What ‘twas she thought of suave and court --
   Ly Frenchman, M. Beaucaire:
Or how she felt when Marcus knelt
   And treated his tartlet square.
When she pleaded with him to offer his limb
   As a hungry lion’s fare.

The lady would probably make reply –-
   If so out questions ran –-
That gay Beaucaire, of the courtly air,
   Was a perfect dear of a man:
That the Silver King was just the thing,
   But Marcus stood in the van
As a hero of might –- while Julius Knight
   Was merely an actor man.

"D."
The Gadfly, 2 May 1906, p3