The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-04

! miserable wretches who shall disappear from
| my memory. And In the anectionate embrace Of
my ndored children 1 shall find new strength to
resume my life Of assiduous labor and blessed
struggles. PlETRO
In T h Stubbornness OF Geraldine"
there are many Characteristic Clyde
Fitch lines. In the opening act on the
7 steamer deck, the scenic hit OF the new
piece. Lord Tilbury and Geraldine are
| chatting.
Geraldine: But New York isn't America!
Tilbury: No, l suppose not-there's Chicago.
! isn't there? And Weshington-only 1 hear that's
| very cosmopolitan: and there used to be Boston.
| didn't there!
Geraldine: Horrors!
| .Tilbury: Across a bridge.
Geraldine Gelieved): Oh. you're mixed. There
used to be Brooklyn.
Tilbury: Are you glad to be going back to
America?
Geraldine: Glad. Glad. Surely an EnglisSnan
knows what love OF ones country means! How
It's born In one and nothing ever gets 1t out!
Let me tell YOU something: The day I sailed 4
! pale. small. timid girl. this same uncle gave me
TO wave from the boSt a little Stars and Stripes.
Uncle Ray did love his country-as well az II few
other things. Perhaps you'll think 1t silly OF me,
but from that day to this I've never let 60 Of
that little flag. Glad 10 20 back to America!
ITS what I've been dreaming of. longing, walt
ing for on tiptoe since the very hour l left
| fourteen years ago. Glad! / don't pretend to
explain: l can only tell you that even TO speak
Of going back fills me with an emotion l don't
understand. l feel It here! Cher hand to her
breast>. And here! tat her throat. I~ts-why-
IT'S home! You know-that's all.
Geraldine inquiries Of another fellow-passenser
his reason for going to America. Of.
Count Kinsey: Veil. For one reason 1 go to
l t!nk ne vord-earn? -mine living.
Geraldine: You'll have lots Of splendid com
pany doing that In America. And your other
reason for going? 1t can't BE- to marry, or
you wouldn't have begun with the other; for
eigners usually just tumble those two reasons
together.
Geraldine finds old New York friends In the
Wrightons, who discuss her In this way:
Wrighton: She IL a charming girl! And now.
for Heavens sake. Janet. don't move heaven and
earth to marry her of for a year or two yet!
Mrs. Wrighton: You don't know her. She's
begun to move bo:h those places herself.
The keynote or me heroine's nature Is sounded
in this passage:
Geraidine: The more l hear against him, the
stronger 1 believe in him-I can't help 1t.
Mrs. Wrighton: That's your nature. Unborn
Nubbornness. dear: you had it as a child.
Geraldine: l don't think It's stubbornness this
time. 1 think It's love. No woman can pretend
she loves a man unless she has faith In him.
And the only one who should be able to destroy
that faith should be the man she lovea..
At Mrs. Wrightons h~icge-wh.st class:
Mrs. M%athewson: We are only Just learning it.
Mrs. breed: At this late day! Mercy! Most
The debutante from Montana shows her British
betrothed the sights of New York from the win
doWs Of the elevated and electric cars. and after
ranging Cleopat:a's Needle To the Bowery, asks
further guidance. ar
Mrs, wrighton: My dear Miss Thompson.
there's no street in the world 80 beautiful as the
Riverside Drive. Take him there.
Lord Tiibury: Is there an oveTgrourd. I'M
derground. or on the ground railway there? ?;
Mrs. Wrighton: Not yet!
Tilbury: Oh. Thank heaven; then We can take
q cab!
Mr.. Mansfield was very particular about
the training of the mob when he staged
- 4 Ia1 HIM IN 0lv
concerning the selection of the men. and,
through the stage manager. he delivered
many lectures to them about tie care they
should exercise to keep within the pictures
of which they were a part.
During the triumphant progress of Caesar
to the Lupercal games at the opening of the
first act, when he is followed by the fawn-
ing populace one of the important cries
of the people is Ave Caesar" and indi-
vidualiy and collectively the mob was in
structed to howl this Justify and naturally
and with enthusiasm. And 1t did.
But at u recent performance one husky
voiced individual. who, presumably, had
been visiting his friends Of the holidays,
Thomas ana jeremiah. besitated, and when
the first "AveiC Caesar rang out with fine
2sp~ontaneity' and then died away, the we'll
meaning super shouted at the top of his
voice: -
=. "Hurrah for Caesar"
boisterous merr'meht IN the audience '1oi-
lowed The super Is not working for Mr..
Mansfield at present.
As is well known. the author Of the
Sherlock Holmes detective. story series
was among tho literary men who were &C.
corded the honors Of knighthood by King
Edward VII at his coronation. Doctor
Doyle; as he is familiarly, called, fe a giant
among men. broad. blum, hearty, red
checked and genial, the typical Englishman.
He says that his honors came as a sur
prise TO him, and while in London he told
Mr.. Gillette OF an amusing instance which
he had with one of his tradesnen.
He and Mr.. Gillette were dining together