The St. Louis Republic., 1903-04-19
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TO JULIA MARLOWE.
From out the pages OF the masters book
Doublst and hose russet like the morn.
A spear within her slim white fingers born
Comes now the very Rosalnd that took
Captive his fancy: SO in forest nook
He dreamed her. going past the hcwered
thorn.
All woman heart all love in spite Of scora
For love, soothly pretended. as We look
/ A world OF toll and tangled trouble fades:
As If TO some EIizabsthan seer
: Dim Elhznd comes again: and. straying, we,
/ ForEetful in its fairy lights and shades.
2 A sound as OF a harp long silent hear:
face as OF q iOnE-sought singer see.
CHARLES E RUSSELL
Henry V Esmond's plays have been not
able for the bright lines and smart sayings
OF the characters. This is said to be no
) less true Of "Imprudence" which william
Favershaw will present at the Olympic
Theater tomorrow night than Of When
! We Were Twenty-One" and The wildner-
ness" Before writing -Imprudence," Mr..
Esmond paid his first visit TO America In
the first act. Jack Frere. played by Mr.
Fayersham. receives a telegram giving the
Information that his uncle. who is a Baro-
net has influenza and there is possibility
Of his coming into the title and properly
Jack Is worried. He says:
didn't think man who is q baronet and has
flo.eoo year has any right TO have any p-in-
ciples at all. do you2 Principles belong 10 The
Door. Why should the rich man have everything
II seems 50 selfish Yop are not keeping your
AprOnise. you know. You promised me ten min
utes' serious talk and that during those ten
minutes you would neither hdEet sniff nor turn
up your silly little nose. You have net been here
three
Billy: Tbs nose is physical the ndEetinK is
constitutional and the snin slipped out"
Jack inquiries Of Billy II she has ever
heard of his uncle and tells her that he has
the influenza
Gus complications. unless one is careful and
Uncle Joseph is never careful. aud he has got
the influenza"
Billy: well
Jack: Il still tell YOU 7 have very definite ana
rigid ideas about life. but IT'S obvious that in
nuenSa followed by complications may unset the
most rigid ideas Of living
Jack: How many people have fallen in love
with your
Billy: ''oh. heaps and heaps. There was Mrs
Brtgstsad. the Bishops wife. Old Miss"
Jack: 7 don't count females"
Billy; And don't count the males. wen
change the subject
covered something about him, decides TO
bolt for Paris. He wishes Jack to find out
what his wife has discovered.
Jim: You must hnd that out for me. She IS
bound TO confde in you. She thinks because you
ere going 70 be a clergyman you should be con-
nded in Then you write me. II she only knows
little. will come back and confess to the little
ana 4 viii be all right II she knows the
In the second act Jack and Sir Harry are
discovered in the smoking-room.
Jack: Women can't be as bad as they trv
and make one believe
Sir Harry: II am prejudced. I alvavu be-
Ieve the evil hear Of them and take the food
with a grain OF salt
Jack: Il suppose It Is because I'd lay down
my life for her that I can't say the things
Sir Harry: Wait till you have been married n
year or so-you'H chatter pretty freely to her
Jack: ''Harry. won, 1t all be splendid when
we're married.
Sir Harry: 'It will be absolutely marvellous.
Nothing like # since the world began
Mrs. Graves: You were a barristar before
your annts money made man Of you
Billy; Your future wife. I tell you. M
Erere, II there wasn't another man In the world
4 wouldn't marry you now"
Z Jack: And ! tell you Miss Mari II tb.-e
wasn't another woman in the world. I'd marry
Soo. whether you like # or not"
brain rs not working"
There was St PatFick's Day. party I'm
New York last month, which proved that
Dion Boucicauit was wrong II he thought to
forecast his own fate when he wrote the
most pathetic of Rip Van Wrinkles lines:
How soon We are forgotten when we are
gone"
The party was given by Mr.. Mary
Barker. who played with Dion Borcicault
ten seasons as the original Mrs. O'Kelly in
The Shaughraun.'' Sheela in The Colleen
Bavn. and the original Mrs weltsr in
The Jfit, and her guests were ,aany OF
those who played with the elder Bouciclult.
Prominent In the party were Domiuick
Murray. the original Michael Feeney in
"Arrah-na-Pcgue"; Joseph Wilkes. who
played Conny Kinchela in ''The shsu9h-
raun''; Miss Julia Stuart who played Nova.
Thad Shine. Arthur Forest End others al
most as well known
II was not a complete gathering. else Il
would have included Henry Irving, 10
whom Boucicauit gave his first London en-
gagemeut; Joseph Jefferson. whose for