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A PERFECT BIT OF EOVEMAKING,

matte Club. .,..,
"And you honestly think / shall do?"
asked Madge, on the day following
the first full rehearsal OF "a Golden
Heart"
"Youll do frst.rate," More respond.
cd, heartily. Hartley Is delighted
with you, | know. OF course. It's
against his traditions as stage man
ager to wax very enthusiastic over
anything"
But that terrible third act scene,
shall never rise to the occasion
there"
THE great thing Is to remember
that you've got to persuade a skeptlcal
audience that you're In love with me"
Its very difficult"
81 dare say"
"But you've got TO persuade them,
too that you're In love with me. and
you do II much better than ]. How.
ever do you manage it:'
II really don't know"
For n man who prides himself on
his self-possession, More looked tri.
! he awkward.
II suppose those things come more
natural to some people than TO 9th.
ors," Madgc remarked, innoccntly.
"Well, suppose we have another go
at that scene now," said More.
"Vcry well. DO you remember our
positions"
Eyes. You're sitting on the garden
seat-there, that settec viii do-and
I'm standing just behind you. Now,
are you rcndy2 Jack says: i love
you, Syblr"
"Oh, do you think you need go
through all that again? You do 1t so
well, and there's nothing for me to do
except to cast down my eyes, so
can't very well go wrong"
"Just as you like. Wen get TO the
end Of Jacks little speech, then Say
you hate me. Sybil, and put me out of
my misery"
rs 1t such mlscryT Let me see,
does the embrace come thcrcW
mot yet, Jack replies: TO know
that ! have made you wrctchcd and
myself ridiculousr And then Sybil
says: 10 know that you have made
me very proud and very happy That's $
were you rise and come UP TO me, TAX
ing both my hands. Jack says; My
darling! And then we do the en-
brace. Go of"
wait n minute. | can never get
that embrace properly" interrupted
Madgc. Now tell me exactly, after
I've taken hold of your hands, what
ought | to do?'
simply put your head on my shoui.
der"
(Which shoulder" ~ ~
"The lcft-thc one nearest to you.
That's always safe rule. Now, then.
shall we try that againT
"All right"
And Madgc went through the cCrc-
mony of embracing her companion in
n busincss-llkc fashion
There" she said, that was better,
wasn't IT."
Beautiful" replied More, gravCly
But forgive me saying so, couldn't
| YOU manage to put little more feel
ing into those words TO know that
YOU have made me very proud and
very happy You sec the audience
doesn't know that Sybil loves Jack
and you have To make IL as plain as
possible to them"
"Oh, dear, it's so hardw sighed the
girl. II feel | don't say those words
properly. Tell me frankly. what's
wrong with me. do you Think"
Frankly, then. you are too self-re
strained. You won't let yourself bC
carried away with your part"
why, you said the other day thai
il was a good thing not TO bc carried
away with ones partv
"Oh, you're not going 10 remember
what ] said more than n week ago
surely Besides, l merely used tha
argument to induce you To accept tn,
part. The end justified the means
I'm annoyed with you. all the same
You might have saved me n week
misery I've been so afraid of lettin'
the part run away with me that sim
ply wouldn't let myself go. / didn'
want TO be inartistic."
please forgive me-" said More
humbly. I'm horribly penitent.
had no idea"
But now I'm simply dying to tr!
that scene again" interrupted Madge
excitedly. Come. let's begin at th,
very beginning so that we can &c
worked up to the climax"
Bravo. More Bravo. Madge.
had no Idea you could act like that
And Tom Raymond regarded hi
friend and sister with an air OF Pc
found admiration.
II didn't know anybody was lis;
ening.' said Mldgc. looking n trin
flushed.
"Oh. | only came IN n minute ago.
I'm glad you like IT," remarkc,
More.
Like itr' cried Tom. "My dear boy
il was superb
4 "Awfully Cood of Won 10 sav so