The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-12
THE. HENRY V. KISS.
Oscillation Extraordinary in
the Passions Slave
Company.
Miss Oarlyon Frees Her Mind
on John A. Stevens Style
of bussinR.

"Do you know why Miss Carlyon left
the John A. Stevens company, which has
Just closed at the People's?" asked play
actor man of Post Dispatch reporter
this morning.
"No."
"Weil, it was all owing to the way in
which Mr.. Stevens insisted on kissing her
In Passions Slave Miss Carlyon's hus-
band, Mr. Melville. is exceedingly Jealous,
and he insisted that hereafter his wife
should be kissed on the ear or behind it.,
instead of On the lips, and out of this fuss
the trouble began, which ended i'm the d.
vision Of the company.
Miss Carly on, whose name off the stage
is Mrs Melville, was found at the Southern
hotel. She is particularly pretty little
lady, with the goldest of golden hair, dark
eyebrows and smile that would melt wax
Likewise she observes the Biblical maxim:
eff your foot is pretty, show it," and
throug hoat the interview the scribe some
times found himself enthralled with The
curves of pair OF joyous galters, and then
with the curves o. an exhilerating pair OF
lips. He told his story, and the lsdy
p0uted very perceptibly when it came to
the statement that her husband wanted her
kissed on the ear, bat laughingly declared
there was nothing in it.
"Of course l have left Mr.. Stevens"
said she, "but it was because did not like
him or that exceedingly fat melo-drama,
"Passion slave"
sand then it was net question Of kiss
ing?"
IL must admit that / did not like the
way he kissed me. You see Mr.. Stevens
always used the Henry V. kiss, and it was
decidedly unpleasant, as he was neither a
husband, a relation or lover"
THAT is kiss that has not reached us
YETI"
ooh, it is the kiss Rignold uses in Henry
" As he does it it is not so bad, but Mr.
Stevens is not the actor that Rignold is,
and the consequence is that every time he
uses the kiss the whole house filters, end
there is a suggestion of indelicacy about
it that is very annoying. Now, dent i'm
agine that / am a prude, for l am not. /
delight in love scenes on the stage, but
there is art and there is awkwardness"
"What is the Henry V. kiss?"
"Well" she blushed and laughed, "what
we call the Henry V. kiss in England is
this. The gentleman comes behind where
the lady is standing and pets both his
hands over her shoulders on her cheeks, so
that the fingers of both meet just beneath
her chin. Then he pulls her head back to
his shoulder and kisses her fairly on the
lips, keeping his mouth to hers fully two
minutes. After he kissed me that way once
/ always afterwards moved my mouth so
that he kissed me on the chin and not on
the lips, but it was unpleasant in the ex-
IRENE. AS say, am not at all prudish,
but am an artist. and do not want to
use stage business that has descended to the
low variety theaters. 1t is stage etiquette
that no gentleman should kiss q lady on
the lips. Mr.. Stevens has violated this
rule over and over again"
"Did your husband tell Stevens that he
must kiss you on the carr"
"On my honor, no. My husband never
spoke to him about it, and it would be alb
surd to ask him to kiss my ear or to kiss me
behind the ear. NY husband never spoke
to Stevens on the matter at all. OF course
he didn't like it, and didn't like it, but I
had made up nay mind to get away from
Mr.. Stevens company as coon as uld,
and SO We resolved to Say nothing about
the kiss. 1t would only put me in a most
ridiculous attitude. All the other mem
bers OF the company spoke to me ebout 1t,
but made up my mind to let it 60 and
get away as soon as could"