Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-30
AT TIL

doing my own CueinE. But what you call
actual retentiveness' does not improve a
particle. I have learned better how to
study a part-that is all one has not
much time to study Saturday night dur
ing an act when / was not on in Class
mates. ] committed the first act Of
heidelberg Sunday afternoon and even
ing of course, I playing the first perform
unccs of 'DivorCons and CLASSMATES had
been reeEJted TO memorial limbo sun
day night after the play / got home at
midnight and studied until a. m. Then
! took some sleep. Monday afternoon we
started In on the first rehearsal of 'IIeldel-
berg This was reading rehearsal and
we all -ead our parts, every one in the
east thus getting a general idea of his
and the others parts. 7 studied again
Monday night and Tuesday night the same
way after two performances that day and
Wednesday afternoon at rehearsal ] was
letter perfect IN the whole. Five hours
actual study had done the trick"
In order 10 let the reader get an idea
of what is involved I'm one speech only, IN
"Dlvorcons," one OF the longer decara-
lions by Cyprienne is appended. 1t covers
about iifty-fiye typewHtten lines and IS
therefore about 720 words long. Take
day off today and memoize III 1t is only.
one speech. by the way. Says Cyprlenne
i'm the course Of the first act:
NO, that Is uuprecedented-it is the COM
placcucy OF the man. oh you have well
arranged things for your own convenience,
Messieurs-it is charming-the social laws
YOU nave made, charming for you. They
arc young they cut dash-they frisk-
"amusc yourself my. SON." says the
mother ii is your privilege" satisfy
for your health" And monsieur fits from
blCndc 20 brunette, to the auburn, and
then when he is knocked out. exhausted
/ "Oh. ] will marry They throw in his
arms a poor young grl-all trembling, all
innoCent-who has always hidden behind
her mothers skirts-who knows nothing
of life that is forbiddcn--of nature that e.
hicuen-and Of love, that which she can
only Imagine And monsieur SAYS to her
when pressing her YEARLY i'm his tired
arms. Are you sufficiently happy to fall
one loves more than / love you-no EN-
braces more energetiCally than / embrace
YOU And the poor young woman, who
finds the embrace a little lukewarm. rays
in signing: "WhutY only that? There is
I nothing better? 1 thought-thats droll
however The idiot is convinced tshe rises
and crosses in front of the table to the
left CENTER but the woman, the real
woman. IKE me, Monsieur, says to her
self. "Nhgt a farcel There is better than
that 10 iv not for so little that one 81 I'm
passion, exalted to folly, to crime. that
ono pul5or's oneself. that one kills nc y go
. would never have exposed himself FOR such
slight embraces to a broken back and
falling from a fourth floor, nor Lc8uder 10
drowning In stormy sea-fOr thar sort
/ OF thing. The game would not De- worth
the candle. There is something else and
much better" And that woman Monsieur.
1 looks questions, studies. informs herself
and after a thorough search and long
study she b. fitted to say plainly! Come,
/ come, YOU are a rogue and ! have been
. cheated On trent of ottoman. going
T.EhD ] have been cheated, Monsieur, that
IS Hu ] have been cheated Besides. n
has to be so, 1t is Ike that everywhere.
! Marriage what does ii mean to veterans
For as IL is an entrance to the campaign.
. At the convent ] dreamed as an innocent
girl Of a marriage that realized a husband
who would be at the same time a hero and
my lover. ] saw you, young, handsome,
slight elegant, all at once; by turn tender
and fierce, slave and despOt, and only
ceasing TO grovel at my feet to bound
upon me like a tiger and 10 bruise me In
his cru hing embrace, Instead Of these
. exquisite things-nothing, never anything.
The dun solitude, a swamp, the water flat
and Sagnant. the regular tic-tac OF the
domestic cuckoo, the mouOtonOus bubble
OF the Couiugal broth which SINNERS gently
on a low fire and which / consume with
ennui and Indifferent appetite Never the
spice, never the biting acid. make ap-
peals 90 NOur heart. I cry 10 b., In the
name of Heaven, Monsieur, 2 beg YOU foI
fcW uuIrS, SOME ehamng gnt, some
spice You reply, 40 Madame NO.
only the millet, the word as really liGseed
H / suppose oatmeal would answer. m NOu
please some spinach and some heTbsI (She
throws herself upon the arm OF a chair
upou extreme right.