The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-12

cnlef between MN ana 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, X. G., amid
thunder reverberating from sheet iron
behind the scenes. His concluding lines
were:
Pair girl, the blackcr this ficnd has
painted you, the deeper my love for
YOU"
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 i job
Oh another woman for?"
II didn't. That yarn came from 4
chorus girl"
~ the end of the scene he took the
: girl in his arms. she wcpt and nobly
forgave her slandcrer. While the lights
were being turned down to slow music
Gray growled:
ITS lucky this is the last night
You've kicked UP q muss the company
wouldn't get over in a hurry The next
time YOU try to blacken woman's
reputation I'd advise you to take
high kicking ballet girl"
Stop making 4 guy Of yourself or
I'll go 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-
dicncc. though the mans lips, being
nearer the woman's car than her
mouth, whispered. or. rather, said, for
WHAT Is sHIu Oh the srugr irr ,s,, ordina-
ry voice can't be heard by an audience:
done yourself
The scene which had evoked univer-
sal commendati y for hundred and
ninety-nine nights fell fiat ON this the
two hundrcdth, and the curtain went
down without the clapping of n single
pair of hands. The manager was furi-
Gus. Calling the leading actors togcth-
cr, he declared that he would withhold
their salaries if 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. will not
speak an accusing word to or Of q wo-
fn, o
intrenchcd. l hold woman so sacred
that l cannot deny her even proper
difference" Rows very low.
Retiring amid applause, he found op-
portunity to say:
THAT cat came pretty near making
it hot for you. didn't she? Lucky we
got onto Der tracks"
But you believed her."
His part came on again, and lie said
grandiloquently:
go! To say that you have my for
giveness is nothing. but when l say
you have the forgiveness Of the woman
you have slandered 1t but expresses her
nobility"
Mr.. Gray did not get another op-
portunlty to converse with Miss Tre-
vile till near the close. IT CALLED him
that he must spend the little remaining
time making love to the woman who
had caused all the trouble when he
wished to offer himself to the woman
she had injured. A few minutes be-
fore the curtain fell Miss Treville ap-
preached him to fire parting shot Mt
her stage rival.
"Go with your simpering, sickly
maid"-
Refrain! DO not goad me to what I
shall be sorry for"
All the characters were now on the
stage and Gray took occasion to get
near the woman he was supposed to
despise. She stood behind fat wo-
man. He whispered:
my leaving you Is breaking my
heart"
II shall be dreadfulIy lonely without
you"
when we make another engagement
shall it be in the same company"
''If you like"
"shall it be real engagements"
'This Is so sudden"
ut can't be otherwise"
"Must you go tonightl'
"Yes, sweetheart. Let me 90 with
the sweet consolation that when we
meet again it will be as accepted lov.
ers.'
"You may go with that consolation"
Amid a flourish by the orchestra he
leads Miss King to the footlights low
ingly and the curtain goes down.
RUSSELL THoRNE. =,