The sun., 1907-12-10
YIOLETS and PUNKN PIE
SERVE TO TURN THE PLOT ~ A
MODERN MELODRAMA.


American. Reveals Also the nnuence
az Spring chicken and Fruit Cake
I at a RenI Champagne Wine Party.
When Mr.. jeff Fairfield smOte Mr.. Harold
Hilton over the head with a bunch Of vio-
let's at the American Theatre early yester-
day afternoon and knocked him out not a
soul in all that great audience raised a
hand to prevent Il. In fact there were
many cries Of Good for you, JEFF" and
Served him right" for IeT Fairfield was
. diamond in the rough and Harold Hilton
was one of those varmints that have led
10 many trusting young actresses 10 their
ruin usually quite some time before the
first act begins. As a rule the victims of
these reptyles OF Harold Hi Ons are wear
ing black right before your eyes about five
minutes after the orchestra has extracted
all the poison from the William Tell over
ture and has stepped around the corner
10 the DItchman's.
But the chastieement OF Harold Hilton
was welcomed on all hands also for the rea-
son that IT, solved one Of the problems set
forward in The life Of an Actress" Mr..
Fairfield had brought those violets all the
way from Kaintucky. sub. for the avowed
PuA por' VI PAVnChdik Llctu w NstoH Nuf "
Msirose. the good young actress with whom
he was in love, and when Mr.. EdDGrd Tenn
pie. at whose theatre Miss Meirose was the
star. forbade him entrance 10 that young
persons presence. everyb Ody wondered
what Mr.. Fairfield could possibly find
TO do with those modest violets 80 far from
home. Because everyb ody thought that
the only thing that could be done with
violeis was to give them to an actress.
But all speculation was set at rest when
Mr.. Fairfield used them for the purpose Of
bea ling Mr.. Hilton into insensibility.
Now nobody who realizes what pitfalls
surround the feet of young and attractive
actresses can deny that Mr.. Temple meant
II for the best when he ordered his stage
C,cTkeeDer to exclude all strangers from
the mystic area behind the footlights. and
50 everybody whom Mr. Temple could
bounce IL he chose stood much i'm awe of
him his word was pretty nearly law.
but not quite. For did not Mr.. Fairfield
get in? He did. And with the lethal
violets too. You couldn't hit Mr.. Hilton
anywhere without skinninG your fist on
revolver, 30 that it would have been
hopeless to attack him with anything but
Vioets. Wherefore Miss MGry MeirUsc was
saved for the first time.
Miss Mary MelrDys was the main scream
at tho Temple Theatre. il appeared. and
when she came to her dressing room. flushed
with innocent pride in her sbt. the roars
Of approval from the delighted stage
hands followed her. You could almost
see the mermaids rising from the tank.
You could almost smell the elephants
Il vas just that natural And then camN
the evil Harold Hihcn with a pOcketRul
of Designs And then cams too the Elu.--
Ilerous Violets and Mary was saved.
SO Mary went Immediately TO a supper
party that Was given the same night in a
Private Room by Mr.. Hilton Here an
other and more subtle danger assaiIed her.
They offered her champagne wine There
wasn't anything to eat AZ this supper party
and nothing TO drink but champagne wine.
but even at that MdrB refused TO drink
She said that champagne wine had hIred
many a trusting gel 10 her ruin. But
just because they made so much fuss about
H. she consented TO take just one lure
And yOu feared. yes, you very much feared,
that Mari was in for a stew. For it did
not surprise you in the least to learn that
Harold Hibon had drugged that glass Of
wine.
But Just here Mr.. Temple did very
thing, a thing that shows
how deep is this playwright's insight into
human nature. Stepping forward boldly,
with a sweeping gesture, Mr.. Ten pie cried
IN truly manly tones;
she shall not touch a drop OF that hellish
stunt"
To prove it he dashed the glass 20 the
door. and hang the expense. Well. that
Harold lillian didn't like it, "You shall
paw for this he said and il did seem
foolish to quarrel over nothing more eX-
pensive than one little glass Of champagne
" inc. But Mr.. Temple he said he didn't
care. He was very brave.
So Ndrp sidestepped the sosh hut luck
was against her, for only a moment later
who should come into that private room but
her Paw and her Nav from Griggsbv Sta
ton, Ksintucky. sub, come to the b'g CITY
jeet a puppuss fer 4 see their gal, and the
Instinct Of a mother led them unerringiy
her At first because Mary. fearful Of what
Paw and Nav would think II ever they saw
her in company with all that champagne
wine, uses Nan Warrington, wick ed actress
who has tried to help lure her on, as a bsrri-
cade. Several strong three-y ear-Olds in
the audience wept bitterly at the pathetic
scene that was then enacted. II seems that
Paw and Nav had brought basketful of
homemade goodies for their. gal, as here
appears:
chickens. guess she'll be tickled with thPt
Mary taside. weeping oh. my Godi
PaN An here's a fruit cake thet Nav
baked herself.
Mary Fruit cake Oh. my Cod
raw An what YOU reck'n got here. eh?
A pTnkin piei
Mary PunIin piel oh. my God! My God!
Ana then Il was that that mol le girl br, ke
away from that Nan Warrington and huGgCd
her Paw and Nav and acknowledged them
right there before all those souses. Yes
eir-eel
so everybody went away and left Mr..
Tenn pie with that Nan Warrington. and
whom he says he guesses he will he going.
having to be careful Of his reputation.
that Warrington woman says she guesses
Mr.. Tempt will stay a while with her. She
used to be good enough for Mr.. Tenn pie.
didn't she1 Well. she's good enough now.
It's pity she doesn't go into particulars
moro because as IL 10 there's a smirch left
on the memory Of NT. Temple. But any
how. smirch or no smirch. ne says let me
pass. woman; and she. with all the rage
Of the woman scorned, snares one OF those
wine bottles and soaks Mr..
Temple over the head and he curls right
up and dies. Well. wine is a mocker and
strong drink RACES.
Well. that Mv. Temple must he a strong
man. but as no gets beaten TO pulp nine
times q week. and more too when there's
q holiday. It's likely that he gets used to H..
It ssGs hard 20 SO just how that Nan Wdr-
yhsgapn was going to throw suspicion on
NGvv. bus she did it all right. displaying
q resouroefilness worthy OF a better cause.
She telephoned Mary to come over and
cheer her up because she wan 500 lone
some Then ahe pulled the table over
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