The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-02-21


chats little country home, sOA.e day,
with Plymouth Rock chickens and six
| ducks wandering around the yard.
snow, let me tell you, Mr.. Hart,
am strictly business. If you want me
| TO play the opposite part in your
sketch I'll do It. And / believe we
can make 1t go. And there's some
thing else / want to say There's no
nonsense in my makeup. I'm on the
level and I'm on the stage for what
It pays me, just as other girls work
| n stores and Offices.
IF you want to make this a bust
ness partnership, Mr.. Hart, with all
nonsense cut out of it, I'm in on it.
know something about vaudeville
teams in general. but this would have
to be one in particular. ] want you to
know that I'm on the stage for what
can cart away from 1t every pay
| day in a little manila envelope with
nicotine stains on 1t where the cashier
has licked the flap. It's kind Of hob.
/ by of mine TO want to cravenette my.
self for plenty of rainy days in the
future. / want you to know just how
I am. l don't know what an all night
restaurant looks like. I drink only
weak tea, ] never spoke to a man at a
stage entrance In my life, and I've got
money i'll five savings banks
Miss Cherry" said Bob Hart in his
hsmnoth serious tones you're in on
your own terms. I've got strictly
business pasted in my hat and stem
ciled on my makeup box. When I
dream of nights / always see five
room bungalow on the north shore of
/ Long Island, with a Jap cooking clam
broth and duck1fng in the kitchen
and me with the title deeds to the
place in my pongee coat pocket, swing
ing in hammock on the side porch. "
The subsequent history Of Mice
viii Play is the history of all sue
cessful writings for the stage. Hart
and Cherry cut il. pierced it, remodeled
1t, put the sketch through all the
known processes of condensation and
Improvement
They rehearsed it by the old fash
ioned boarding house clock In the
rarely used narlor until its warming
| click at ffTe minutes to the hour would
occur every time exactly half second
before the click of the unloaded re-
| volyer that Helen Grimes used in re
hearsing the thrilling climax of the
| sketch.
Yes. that was a thriller and a piece
of excellent work In the act real
| 81 ealiber revolver was used. loaded
with real cartridge. Helen Grimes,
who is 4 western girl Of decidedly Buf
falo Billish skill and daring, is tenn
pestuously in love with Jack yalen-
tine. the private secretary and conf
Dental prospective son-in-law of her
father "Arapahoe' Grimes, quarter
million dollar cattle king, owning a
ranch that, Judging by the scenery, is
in either the Bad Lands or Amagan
sett, Z. I. Valentine lin private life
Mr.. Bob Hart wears puttees and
Meadow Brook Hunt riding trousers
and gives his address as New York.
There were only two parts and a
half in Mice Will Play" Hart and
Cherry were the two, of course. and
the half was minor part always play.
ed by a stage hand
There was another girl ia the sketch
--a Fifth avenue society swelless-who
gas visiting the ranch and who had
srened Jack Valentine when he was
j wealthy cluliman on lower Third
avenue before ne loaI his money This
girl appeared on the stage only in the
Photographic state--Jaek had her Saro-
~ stuck up on the mantel of tie
Gnaagan Of the Bad Lands droring
rom. Helen was jealous. of course.
Ard now for the thriller. Old Arap.
ahoe Crimes dies Of angina pectoris
one nlght--so Helen informs us in a
stage ferryboat whisper over the foot
lights while onlv bis secretary was
present. And that same day be was
known To have had SCAT 600 In casI
10 his (ranchl library just resolved Tor