Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

1 tux diiIef cilCe Utl"SeH pray ~ liilitc
and other stuff of similar kind pref
| aced the plav-wr-iter." "Uh-huh, sad we.
with as little visible gloom as we coud
exhibit, but all of their plays are diff
ferent from. etc, etc.
Action takes places in Newport" he
went on. spiyttering so enthusiastically
that we felt the dire need of bathing
suit. Drawing room thing. y'see, and
ko-nifty kind O folks in it. I'll just give
you little outline of the scenario SOS
MacJunk the woman playing the leading
stuff, TO longer loves her husband
Doesn't love anybody except herself. Type
of modern society woman, y'see. Selfish,
self-centered and all like that. But a lit
tie after the play begins she meets up
with an inventor chap who has done
lot of swell work in connection with aero
planes. and she becomes interested in
him. He's one O these ducks that doesn't
care anything about wonlen-haSnt time
for 'em. YOU know. being immersed i'll
his conquering- gag, and SO
he"
! Oh, it's awful. believe u.s. Terrible. Be-
yond belief in its sheer terribleness.
Worst of it is that you've got to sit there
putting on sort of a phony rapt gaze.
You've got to pretend that you're sim
ply submerged and inundated by the
Z greatness progress Oh the warn. Y OF We
got to make out as II you're being car
ried right off your props. as IL Jagged
by one OF those Mississippi river spring
freshets. by the sheer and miraculous
originality Of the plot.
II you don't do these things and keep
right on doing EN-, he regards YOU as
! a loU-brow OF the grourdlingest pos
sibie kind. You would be perfectly
willing to have him regard you that
way, or any other way that he pleased,
-tx,ys- hn Il liz y
/ suddenly decide not TO read any more
Of the play to you. But he never does
this. Not chance. Nary . sulk. He
goes right Oh reading tall of it
no matter how you behave.
The outlining of the scenario is iuet
bliss compared 10 the listening to the
lines when he begins to spout them
Now here's novel little passage,
think he warns you as nc spins along
-: comes right after Claudine Mac
Junk has met Topside Swifttisht. the
lnventor of aeroplanes. The inventor
y'see. = sort o yawny and preoccupieG
when he meets Claudine, and isn't pay
ing the slightest attention TO her. and
SO shC becomes miffed, understand
because she's used to having 'em crowG
around her and ladle out the oil to
her. and SO she says to him:
Er-Mister Topfight--i should say
Swifttop--
'Swiftfiieh,. madam Swiftflight'.
my name.
"Oh, yiss, yiss-Swifthigh,. tubb.
shuah. Well, Mister Swift6ight. aren1
you inclined tub believe, rally, thai
the inventing of aCroplanes has q ten
dency. one might say, rally to make
the inventor live-er-up in the air, sc
TO speak,
tie finishes, then he looks at YOU pierc-
ingly. waiting for You to break into an
uncomfortable guffaw. But you don't
You just can't It isn't IN you You
right thing by him and all OF your fell
low creatures, but you can't Suffaw
Kind o tidy chatting that, what?''
says the play writer, proddlng YOU
| I'm" you say, making q terrific strug-
gle with yourself I'm
You see. he goes on. still inlpalins
you with his baleful glance, she banters
him on being inventor. you know
Catch the idea? II 8 the invariable GUS
chaff and banter men OF brains, savvy.
And so. cumberland. she eases into
him that little crack about Inventors OF
aeroplaneS living up III the air'-ha ha
=, Not SO bad. EN-, old tcp:
, GO on. go on, you say.
| You really mean that YOU want him t.
plunge right ahead and get through with
the awfuIly sad job just as soon as he
possibly can and will. However. he in
terprets your Go on" g symptom OF
your GREATNESS. almost maniacal inter
est in his mess; and SO. darling you a
glance of keen and delighted approval
he goes on. OH. yes. he goes right on
never worry in the slightest.