The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-11
DOLLY DALRYMPLE IN SERIES OF STORIES TELLS OF SOME THINGS SHE SAW AND
 HEARD ON RECENT VISIT TO NEW YORK

der if she isn't lingering somewhere in the Tarrytowrf residence of the sen ator, stalking back and forth-dark and mysterious like the black leopards at the Bronx. zoo-planning something else diabolical,
 Mercyi she was demon and a demoness combined, and you'd suspect her of anything-most. Every time she smiled felt chillier than Richard must have felt in his $3.9S rain coat and she was so uncanny and so awful that I , couldn't help wondering how she must look when she was eating corn on cob with heaps of butter
 After an intermission occurred of four years Gin the play) and eight minutes Tn the theatre, we see Lilly prosperous and apparently quite happy in a won deriul Manhattan drawing room (pro- vided by Richard) somewhere up in East Fortieth street, where an awful iot or nice men came for tea. (Men never go to tea anywhere except in New York: Wish they did it seems rather a nice custom and so sort of harmless) must say, however. for the benefit of regular business men, that most of the fellows who went to Lily's were law yers Of course I don't know much about the courts in New York. bus if cases can be casually put aside so law yers can go ''a-teaing" up in E;st
 
 the dockets are crowded and that there is SO much complaint from impatient clients.
 Of course you couldn't think of talk Ing with lawyer about such things because if you did he would put 1t on ms Dill l even heard of lawyer the other day who wanted a retainer ba- lore he would tell a client whether ba thought the Giants would win this year or not
 Just fancy,
 AS the play progressed I must say got rather put out with Iily beca,,se She wasn't satisfied with fine manly young fellow like Richard Laird. who was Wiling quite to overlook any it. tie discrepancies the lady might have been guilty of and give her his nalpe, put instead she fell head over heels in love with the pale faced, silly. no-ae- count sawed-on, young poet-Stephen Bennett tplayed by Calvin Thomas With quite bit of artistic comprehen- sion).
 When Lily began to get crazy about this Iittie insignificant fellow, instead of a regular man like Richard, I felt like go ing out into the night, as this young man nad done, taking my raincoat with me- put instead l waited and saw the poets uncle (superbly and masterfully por- trayed by big, jolly, clever, Tom Wise), ooso HiHi lron Lily. My personal Opin- ion is that he saved Lily from the poet. This scene in the cafe of the Fine Arts Is "The Scene of Scenes in the show. It Is tremendous; the setting in the restau- rant, the triangular conversation. the din ner, the walters shouting out the names of so many sauternes and champagnes that it made you believe the author must have lived in a very large cellar stocked with all sorts of drinks was one of the most marvellous pieces of staging and acting I've ever seen anywhere-by any body.
 The finale of this scene shows Lilly in toxicated, wretched, miserable, her hair dropping down from sheer abandon and alcohol, and old Phineas Bonnet Crom Wise) shouting to the head waiter:
 Send for a taxi and tell em to take her home!
 Your heart begins to thump, big lump rises in your throat and the tears stream down your cheecks as the awful cless is done with-and you are not ashamed of crying, nay, of sobbing aloud, for everybody else in the theatre is doing the same thing-men and women alike, and you just want to go back of the ecenes rush into little Irene Fenwicks dressing room and throw your arms around her slender form and press her close to your beating heart and tell her she can come and go home and live with you and you'n try to get her a job on The Age-Herald, where everybody is so good to you. or whatever place you happen to work in. And, oh, dear, dear you wish you were dead and that all the awful, fend-
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