Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-01-23

to the end OF her days" he pronounced
ponderously. "What we want to do Is
to force the issue--to show people
what she is really capable Of Wen
hire a theater get good cast and put
Cn say, Romeo and Juliet That will
make the managers sit up and take no
tice."
Very WE'LL" said Temple quietly
Get the best company you can and
do the thing right"
Miriam. TO whom Stanley had al.
ready broaGhed the proposition, stared
at her husband. Temple was a multi
millionaire, but the ten or twelve thou
sand dollars that Stanley had declared
the experiment would cost was large
sum TO venture on a single matinee.
Impulslvcly she sprang from her seat
and ran TO kiss him.
Temple smiled gently. It was the
first voluntary kiss Miriam had given
him since her greeting at the station.
She did not realize in her absorption In
her work how little attention she paid
him.
Once assured OF the success Of his
scheme. Stanley went up to town, leav.
ing Miriam with her husband for a
week. He wanted to be free TO make
arrangements for the theater, and Mir.
lam, in her intervals of study, found II
very pleasant to sit In the cool even.
ings with her husband and watch the
boats glide by on the river far below.
Not until Stanley had left had she no.
tlced how pleasant It was to be freed
from his exuberant presence She was
sorry when her tutor wired her TO re.
turn TO town.
For six weeks she was drilled in her
new part. Every line was gone oven
carefully and the exact accent studied
She began to loathe the lines. From
the companies playing in town and
from those players not under engage
mcpt Stanley had made up an excel
lent cast. lie had intended engaging
cheaper people that his own share OF
the money might be greater. but fol
the first time John Temple took an IN
terest In his wife's career and gave
personal supervision to the formation
of the supporting company.
Some few papers made half contemp
tuous advance mention of the perform
ance. and the critics gleerully sharp
ened their pencils. but Miriam, uncon
sclous of everything but the play, did
mot even see the half testing illusions
to the new star.
Then came the matinee. Stanley had
seen TO 1t that claque was present
but In spite of the uproarlous applause
Miriam felt the inslncerIty OF It all
and this added TO the depression al
ready induced by her knowledge OF
how poorly she appeared beside these
well trained players.
At home among friends and ANA.
Tours whom she outshone the knowl.
edge OF superiority had buoyed her up
Now the veil was rudely torn from her
eyes, and she beheld her Limitations
with the cle0rness OF an outside oh
server To complete her lesson she
overheard conversation between two
OF the lesser members of the cast
STANLEY stands to clean up 81. 900 on
this show alone, besides what he mad,
of his coaching lessons" said the first
The other laughed.
II never saw a man with such lucl
ut catching suckers" he said. II wlsl
l had the trick. They tell me he,
made
Miriam's call came, and she lost I'll,
rest. She lay upon Jullct's bier Will
the words ringing In her ears. In d
flash she saw 1t all. Stanley, playing
upon her love for the stage, had en-
couraged her In the belief that she
could make great actress solely fol
the sake of the money she would pay
him for his services as coach, and
Jack, her Jack, had been called d
sucker.
The odlOus word bit into her brain
and 1t was with difficulty that she
took up her lines when her cue came
The tomb scene was merclfully short
She bowed and smiled to the perfume
tory applause rs the curtain rose again
Most of the audience was heading fol
the entrance. The claque alone re
manned faithful.
Stanley as the curtain fell turned &c
offer his congratulations, but she
roughly pushed him aside. tempt,
had come on to the stage, and she Went
straight to him.
Jack" she sobbed, take me away
from here. Take me home. | dom
want to act. want just you, dear"
And Temple, writing n final CHECK
for Stanley, laughed softly to himself
His investment In fame had yielded
ripe returns, as he had foreseen.
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