The Cairo bulletin., 1905-12-20

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Ii WIS Inc IaSI peIloTHHHNS W iht
screen Monster" and the company
would break up as soon as i was over.
Harold Gray leading gentleman, was
to take i midnight train 10 join a new
company mud Marian Treylle. was 70
do likewise their engagements being III
cities thousand miles apart Miss
/ Trpvlle was playing heavy woman"
Interfering with Mr. t'ray's hove aflair
nhhYyntha King leading LADY. There
was real rpmauee going pn running
counter to The fictitious one. Gray had
\ been falling IN love with the very Wo-
4 man hy whose yllainles he had been
thvarted III his fictitious love. 10
make matters worse Miss King, hero
inc. had been telling stories about
Miss Treyille
4 The real aenoumeut had come out as
the actors in the double drama We're
going on the stage This made Grays
role extremely difficult He was obig-
ed to heap anathemas on the head of
| Miss Trevile whom he had just dis
covered had been maligned by Miss
| King. He was obliged 10 make love TO
4 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, Il. G, amid
| thunder reyerberating from sheet iron
l.
| We're.
Fair girl. the blacker this fiend has
painted you, the deeper my love for
you"
While both were dazel BIZ flashes
Of lightning and frightful crashes OF
thunder. be added loud enough only for
her II hear;
"Nhat did you want to put up a job
on another woman for3'
II didn't. That yarn came from q
chores girl Z
AT the end OF the scene he took the
girl IN his arms. she wept and nobly
forgaye her slanderer While the lights
were being turned down to slow music
Gray growed
cts lucky this Is the last night
You've kicked up muss the company
wouldn't get over in a hurry. The next
time You try TO blacken woman's
reputation Ia advise you to take a
high Kicking ballet girl"
Stop making a guy Of yourself or
I'll 60 Off the stage and tell the old
man | won't finish with you"
The threat had the desired effect. /
and the kiss that came at the end Of
the scene was very realistic to the au
dience. though the mans lips. being
nearer the womans ear than her
mouth. whispered. or. rather, said, for
what Is said on the stage in an ordina-
nv voice can't be heard by IN audience,
The only damage you've done you've
done yourself"
The scene Which had evoked univer
sal commentator for a hundred and
ninety-nine nights fell fat ON this the
two hundrcdth, and the curtain went |
down without the clapping of single |
pair OF hands. The manager was furi, |
GUS! Calling the leading actors togeth- |
or, he declared that he would withhold |
their salaries II they did not put aside
theieompany quarrel and do their parts |
properly His threat served to make I
things 20 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 tin the play had slandered his
love. Unfortunately for a good rendi-
ton be bad really learned that 1t was
she who had been slandered. His lines
ran;
Your sex protects you, | viii not
speak an accusing word TO or OF a wo-
man. In this you are safer than man
hold woman so sacred
that ! cannot deny her even proper
Difference" Bows very low.
Retiring amid applause, he found op-
portunity to say:
''That cat came pretty near making
Il hot for you, didn't shey Lucky we
got onto her tracks" 1
but you believed her" /
His part came on again, and be said
grandiloquentiy:
Go, To say that you have my for.
giyeness is nothing but when | Say
y5u have the forgiveness Of the woman
you have sla7idered II but expresses her
nobility 4
Mr. Gray did not get another OPP
Dortnnity to converse with Miss Ire
vile till near the close. II CALLED him
hat he must spend the little remaining
Time making love 20 the woman who
lad caused an the trouble when he
wished to Offer hnnself 70 the" woman \.
he had injured A few minutes be 4
lore the curtain fell Miss Trevilie APP.
aroached him to fre "a parting shot ut
her stage rival -tT
go with your siInpering sickly
naid"-
Refrain! 10 not goad me TO what
'hall be sorry f0r,'
All the characters were now on the
stage and Gray took occasion to get
GEAR the woman he was supposed 10
lespise. She stood behind a fat wo-
nan. He whispered.
My leaving you is breaking my
heart" IA
Il shah be dreadfully lonely without
you"
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