Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-02-09
MERRY WIDOW"
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1 iilah and woman and love. llat, as the poet says, is the whole world. He forgot to include music the flesh and the devil.
 lie has written it on the fan. but ne must say with his lips Hove vou." nave twenty millions; have youth; 1 have beauty; but am poor without his love. He must say. CT love you
 That is what ale Merry Widow has murmured to herself, and that is the message she sends from the depth of nef passion-brimmed eyes, into which the Prince Danilo is cautiously gaz- Ing, What he reads there fills him With lmmeasurable joy, quenchine the hot spark of jealousy that mo- ment before had scared his heart But the flame of love that flares re- sponslVe to his own eager eyes is quickly concealed. He is the cat and Will play a while with his quivelirg mouse. He sneers at and scorns her.
 You will not say, I love you?' she repeats in tremulous whisper. No never!" he laughs mockingly, as he lies; as he tells her he is going out of her life forever on the mor- row. He knows that he has won her, though it pleases him still to felgn jealousy. He can afford to Jest, just as she would have done < had the situation been reversed. For such is the tyranny of love. An, So, Sonia is subtle. Momentari- ly he has the advantage in the game, but that he does love her woman's S instinct has devined, and now that the issue is made she must and will force him a declaration. How? Why ask? There is but one way for the true daughter of Eve that she is-by the lure of the sex.
 
 garden. Alone in a bower of roses; alone with the resplendent glory of the moonlight about them; alone with heavy, intoxicating perfume of flow CTS in their nostrils, and the warm. red blood of youth and passion is aglow with the fire of wine. If he is going to leave her he will dance with her for the last time, will he not? He suspects nothing and acquiesces They dance a folk dance, but he is canny and does not touch her volup- tuous body. The temptress is dis mayed though she continues to chal- lenge him bodily with splendid allure ment of her sensuous charms But ithe music ceases and she has lost her first cast.
 How did you like it?' she cries hiding her chagrin with show of gaiety. Not at all' mocks the Prince.
 Then it comes Soft and sweet , and entrancing as lullaby waited on languorous zepnyr rises the yearn- ing note of the love waltz-the ten der, appealing waltz that has ravish- } ed the senses of all Europe and all America. Sonia grasped this sensual l significance at once and her seduc- 7 tive smile changes to smile o1 : triumph. The spell of the siren strains fall quickly on the Prince : and for the moment he is lost to all 1 hut the wonderous ecstacy of that
 tonal love-call. Unconsciously hf = e1ides into the rythm of the waltz {, measures and the man and the Wo- f man quickly approach each other aS - if if were the most natural thing l' , the world to do which it is. Ano V +bon then she is in tho nassiOnatc
 clutch of his strong arms and the , celebrated Merry Widow waltz 's o' s If the proverbial pin had fallen a Q this juncture in the Elks Theate' . lac. .,~h. where standine rom va! q ,t i, Drcr ,rm. it wouiG hays nlt de y ,cj,, Ike hard hurle br: :. afS"-
 ii, with a French plate mirror fN' s cry individual. comnosine that Drl'' n liant audience wore that tense and ev' t nectart exnression we discern on tni e face of school girl when she take e tho bie dill pickle out of her mrc' : ,eshet We'll. they hed reaSfA f'' - wearing it. for they were gazing up d m as dramatic situation as anl 7 plavright through shakesns -. 'Hv,'
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