The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-12-14
Counter Currents


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It was the last performance OF e-
.Green Monster and the company
would break up MS soon as It was over.
Harold Gray. leading gentleman. was
to Take d midnight train to join a new
company and Marian TrevIlle. was to
do likewise, their engagements being IN
ci!!cs a Thousand miles apart Miss
Trevllle was playing heavy woman,
interfering with BE. Grny's love anait
witii CynthIa King, leading lady There
vyas real romance going ON, running
COUNTER to the fictitious one. Cray had
been falling in love with the very wo-
man by whose yillnfnies he had been
thwarted In his fictitious love. Tc
make matters worse, Miss King, hero
inc. had been telling stories" about
Miss Treyille.
The real denoument had come out as
the actors IN the double drama were
going on the stage This made Gray'1
role extremely difficult. BE was oblig.
ed to heap anathemas on the head OF
Miss Trevi1le whom he had just dis
covered had been maligned by Miss
King. He was obliged to make love TO
Miss king. who had caused all the mis-
chief between him and the woman he
really loved. The first opportunity he
had to speak his real mind was In the
third act, when having spoken his lines
he retired with Miss King. r. O.. amid
thunder reverberating from sheet iron
behind the scenes. His concluding linea
.'Falr girl, the blacker this fiend has
painted you, the deeper my love for
While both were dazed by flashes
of lightning and frightful crashes Of
thunder, he added loud enough only for
her to hear:
"what did you want to put up job
on another woman for?"
81 didn't. That yarn came from
chorus girl
girl in his arms, she wept and nobly
forgave her sIanderer. While the lights
were being turned down to slow music
Gray growled:
ITS lucky this is the last night.
You've kicked up muss the company
wouldn't get over in hurry. The next
time YOU try to blacken woman's
reputation I'd advise you to take &
high kicking ballet girl"
stop making guy of yourself o.
I'll go Off the stage and tell the ole
man won't finish with you"
The threat had the desired effect,
and the kiss that came ut the end OF
the scene was very realistic to the au-
dience, though the mans lips, being
nearer the woman's ear than her
mouth, whispered. or, rather, said, for
what is said on the stage in an ordina-
ry voice can't be heard by an audience:
1.-THE only damage you've Zone you've
done yourself"
The scene which had evoked univer.
sal COMMUNICATION for a hundred and
ninety-nine nights fell fiat on this the
two hundredth, and the curtain went
down without the clapping of II single
pair of hands. The manager was furt-
GUS Calling the leading motors togeth
er, he declared that he would withhold
their salaries IL they did not put aside
the company quarrel and do their parts
properly. His threat served to make
things go more easily. but all natural
ness had gone out of the performance
and could not be forced back. In the
next act the hero meets Miss Treville
who lin the play had slandered his
love. Unfortunately for good rendi.
ton he had really learned that it was
she who had been slandered. His lines
ran:
''YOur sex protects you. l will not
speak an accusing word to or Of wo
man. In this you are safer than man
intrenched. 1 hold woman so sacred
that cannot deny her even proper
Difference" Bows very low).
Retiring amid applause, he found OPP
portunity to say:
THAT cat came pretty near making
it hot for you, didn't she? Lucky we
got onto her tracks"
but you believed her"
His part came on again, and he said
grandiloquently:
$50! To say that you have my for
giveness is nothing, but when say
you have the forgiveness of the woman
you have slandered it but expresses her
nobility
Mr. Cray did not get another OPP
portunity to converse with Miss Ire
vile till near the close. 1t CALLED him
that he must spend the little remaining
time making love to the woman whd
had caused all the trouble when he
wished to offer himself to the woman
she had injured. few minutes be-
fore the curtain fell Miss Treville mp
preached him to fire n parting shot at
her stage rival.
go with your simpering. slckly
maid
"EefrainI DO not goad me to what
shall be sorry for!'
stage and Gray took occasion to get
near the woman he was supposed to
desplse. She stood behind a fat wo-
man. He whispered:
MY leaving you is breaking my