The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
MR.. BoWsER,S PLOT.
It Was for Four-Act Play, but He
Gave It Up.

Instead of sitting down to his evening
paper and cigar in placid enjoyment
Mr.. Bowser was nervous and uneasy.
and now ard then he locked at Mrs
BowSer in a furtive, inquiring way.
She knew that he had something on his
mind, but she asked no questions, and
dinner had been over a full hour when
at last, after walking up and down the
room for ten minutes he said:
I expect you'll sheer and ridicule as
usual, but am writing a play for a
friend of mine and should like to talk
with you little about the plot"
! Il shall be more than willing to talk, -
she replied, as she repressed her aston
ishment with an effort. Your friend is
an actor, take it?''
Hes going to be. He's been reading
up for the last six months
what do you mean by reading up?'
why. he's been reading books which
tell a person how to become an actor.
! he gets the right sort of play he's
bound to be another Edwin Booth in
time''
Il see. And you have promised to
write him the right sort Of a play?
That's kind of you. Have you got a
plot to match the wig and sword?''
Mr.. Bowser didn't exactly like her
tone, but after glance at her he passed
it by and replied:
It think 1 have struck it the first
tAiA4C l1OuSA SO1ilC l1ttl0 CIaIS0S may
be necessary. will tell you the plot
as have outlined it. The scene is laid
in Rome, in the year lips. The hero is
named Kybiffo. He is a young man
who has dared to aspire to the hand of
a princess, and the emperor has ordered
him out of the country. He refuses to
go. He not only refuses, but he asserts
that he will remain and marry the
Princess Dogolsky. That's where the
| first act opens"
/ he Ia a.
sword as he refuses to go?" asked Mrs.
Bowser.
"He don't, but I can put that in.
How do you like the names?"
why. Kybiffo sounds very romantic.
and Dogolsy is something new and
ought to make hit. When Kybiffo is
in a hurry to speak to her he can alb
breviate her name to Dog, and on her
part she can shorten his to Ky or KY
KY
''Have you started into the funny
business already?" asked Mr.. Bewser,
as the red began to show in his face.
"Of course not. How many other
characters have you?''
well. there's the emperor, the en-
press, twelve guards, two executiOnerS,
three lion keepers, four ladies of the
court, a hur chback. and a fellow named
Damito. He is also in love with the
princess. and the emperor favors his
suit. I've got to get rid of Damito
somewhere in the third act. but Haven't
settled on just how to do it. Would il
look stacy to have him hurled from the
edge of a precipice ?'
who would do the hurling?"
81 thought Of introducing a man from
Chicago fellow who had suddenly
gone crazy and was laundering for
gore"
Pm afraid it would look rather stilt-
ed. If you, are looking for a novelty
why don't you hav1 him caught in a
cheese-press and squeezed to death?"
woman, don't trifie with met ex-
claimed Mr.. Bowser, as he started ur
with a CLINT in his eye.
But I am not. n writing a play you
want to get away from old lines. They
have been hurting men and women
from precipices for the last hundred
years. You have simply to get him
into the cheese-press in a natural man
ner. He can take it for a telephone boz
or a bath tub. However. we can lei