The sun., 1908-10-04

language. The nero sight Of the audi
ences trying to follow the play with
pamphlets gives you a little thrill. 10
think we pay enough attention TO diotion
on the American stagef'
You must have asked It or he would
not be so courteously attentive
well, think we have 30 many different
kinds OF diotion. There is the George AIDE
kind and the 'sassiety' and a lot more
They are all good In their way.
"The peculiar kind OF talk that is SO
often criticised as not being good English
Is really necessary TO give the atmosphere
to the play. You don't expect, for ex-
ample. the people in a play like Paid In
Full to speak as would be necessary in
Hamlet or Macbeth In Jack Straw
there are lot Of English oolloquialismf
which II left out would rob 1t Of just that
amount Of color, suppose there are
very few Americans who know that the
skilly referred TO is q kind of soup peddled
from door to door among the poorer
classes and that the direction that some
thing be sent by way Of Colley Patterson
refers to favorits local express used in
London"
There is another silence. You are al
ready to say good-by. Your bag is
packed and your sore thumb embedded In
your glove. Yet you lnger and you
bIurt without any real consciousness OF
your crime:
Il suppose you know, Mr.. Drew, that
you are considered the best dressed man
on the American stage
There, it's outl There Is a cataclysm
of shame and of relief as we'll.
1t sounds puerile as IL echoes and re-
echoes in your ears and down the cofri-
dors Of the Webster. Mr.. Drew jumps
and unooils his mustaohe. He shoots his
cuffs forward and back with quick de-
fiaht movement.
His facial expression and tone OF voice
remind you OF far away experience
which took place on Lake Hopatcong
when the captain Of naphtha launch ran
it on q snag in the middle OF the lake,
where it careened for half an hour. "I've
been looking for that snag all summer,
he remarked to the frightened passengers
triumphantly.
For Mr.. Drew remarks; Il knew it.
was just as positive that you'd get around
to that as was that I'm alive and breath
ing The last time the interviewer kept
away from it until he. got to the door.
He did better than you
There In bitter reproach in the tone.
Il didn't mean to-" You murmur hum
bly,. ,.
But you did it
"Yes. know, but you Anade me-"
How did make your
why, you've been making me ever
since came in the room. Ehavsn't been
able to think OF thing TO say and neither
have you, because you were 80 deter
mined would and was 80 determined
I wouldp'
There is something in up and down
sincerity. Mr.. Drew Is Modified by that
and your evident grief.
Il suppose there is something in hyp-
motto suggestion" he says, half CON-
vincei.
"Of course there is, you assert. We've
Just proved it. / was perfectly innocent
Of any design against your peace Of mind
when came, but every time l looked at
you you were saying to yourself, Now
it's coming aud when we weren't talking
you were watching for me to say it. Even
the New Emanuel movement can't hold
out forever against an obstacle of that
kind."
But it is so piffiing,- says Mr.. Drew.
'Clothes!'
"Of course it's piff1ing," you admit.
sort OF puerile! A Herchdnts Gazette
talk to young men on how to wear their
best suits"
Worse, you admit.
aIf a mans we'll dressed hes well
dressed and that's an end to it, II he
don't know how to dress you can't teach
him, for he'l never see the difference
Newer
"Its like the tailor who the first time
he saw Niagara Falls said it would be a
fine place to sponge coats
Exactly
sor like the young chap who never
read book in his life and when his friends
got worried because he subscribed TO an
encyclopaedia confessed that he did it
because he thought they would be so
good 10 press his trousers under
Exactly
sThen you didn't come to ask me how to
wear your clothes as IL they were made
for you, nor how to tie ties, or how many
suits have year?'
sd hate to have you tell"
Peace is restored and you part amicably.
But the iron has entered Mr.. Drew g
soul, for after answering forgotten
question over the phone later on In a
most discursive manner he reverts to
the grievance,
"Oh, II only you hadn't said that about
the clothesl We we're having such a
perfect interview
And the last word is to the woman.
But you made me-"