New Britain herald., 1916-03-07
Read these episodes, each com plete in six insertions. Sec them acted on the motion picture screen at the Kccncy Theatcr.
EPISODE VII.

I'm going to get WOrk, she said, put ] even if I didn't my mother and | would never accept any help from you. have only one thing to ask and l that is that you leave here at once i and do not come again I can't promise not to see you, Mary he said ; I must and will Well, at least I won't speak to you she said defiantly and with that he swung about and came out in the hall where I had the door all nicely opened for him. I told him sweetly that I'd opened it for him to get out, but I'd be shot be- fore 1t ever opened to let him in again. He glared at me, but he didn't say anything, and as soon as he was out of sight I ran back to the sitting-room, to find Mary in a dead faint. It was such a long time be- fore she came round, and then she was so dazed and terrified that we were all scared to death, and I swore solemn VOW then and there that I'd be the busiest little stage mother and chaperon and advice giver to Mary that any girl ever had
 Her voice, which in spite of the careless slang had a vibrant sweet ness that carried conviction, sudden ly tremb1ed. and the quick tears filled her eyes as turning to Mary, she cried eagerly:
 And, Mary. I've kept my word, haven't I? Haven't r"
 Mary nodded, smiling through her own tears and the spectators who throughout the breezy testimony of the young actress had been on gales of laughter, suddenly sobered. They saw the brave heart under the butterfly exterior, and realized the wisdom and the goodness behind the vulgar words.
 But Langdon, seeing the judge frown at this shattering of legal pre- cedent, asked his next question quick ly.
 You and Miss Page did secure posi- tions in the same company, did you not?"
 : "Oh, yes, in The Blue Feather You see, I'd made up my mind that it was both of us or none, but we didn't have any trouble, because while I'd had the experience Mary had the looks, so We were booked mp for re- hearsals in a week or so. Mary took to it like a duck to water. and made hit with the stage manager before he'd got through calling the rest of us all the names in his voca bulary. So when 1t came to one bit where the fat tenor had to choose a girl out of the chorus to sing an encore with him, Mary got the chance, and made good too. But that was afterwards"
 Well, suppose you tell us what oc- cured on the day The Blue Feather opened"
 "Oh, the day was the same as any other opening day. We'd rehearsed half the night and started in at eight thirty in the morning. Somebody had sent set of scenery that was back wards and the leads had to learn their business all over again, and the hats Tor the chorus turned up the wrong l color. The stage manager had a 1 grouch and the orchestra got all mixed up on the encores, and we were all tired to death and wished 1 we were dead. It's always like that l few hours before the overture on 1 an opening night, so Mary and I were l mighty glad to slip out home and rest | an hour before going back to make l up. We didn't dare stay long, though 1 for being late is the worst sin in the l box at a show-shop, so it was round l about seven when we got on our lids l and were ready to beat it back. Just i when we were leaving, though, moth CT came running in and said Oh l Mary Philip Langdon is here and he l wants to see you just a minute before l you leave At that Mary lights all
 the lamps in her eyes, and went into 1 the sitting room with me a close sec l ond
 l MT. Langdon was there talking tc l Mrs. Page and when we came in she l called out, Mary, Philip has given uI
 his practice in New Town and has
 come here to live At that he came
 over and took Mary's hand in botf I of his and said, Please be glad, Mary
 heard that Pollock had gone into | business here and I worried so abou1
 you, l felt l had to come. Let me
 be your friend and protector, ever 1 if I cant be anything more, won1
 you, Mary?' oh, but you oughtnr
 to give up your practice, Phil, she
 said, beginning, just like a woman
 to kick against the thing that pleased
 her most. 1ou-you-may not like
 it here But he laughed at that, anc
 they began to talk so much that
 got worried and butted in by remind
 ing Mary that she was an actress nov
 and had to hustle. Then Mr. Lang
 don had to be told all about it. and the result was we had to run three block
 to get in at the stage door befor, ! they began to keep tabs on the lat,
 corners. MT. Langdon was to go witt | mother and Mrs. Page, and I SoOl l spotted them up in the balcony, fo the management doesn't hand ou
 boxes for the families of it's front roy of the chorus, but in one of the boxe
 I did see a familiar face-that of Dav, Pollock. He was all gotten up in soul
 and fish, but he was alone and I coul(
 see that he was taking Mary all in
 and then some. Mary had told m
 lot about him, and the pil<er wa,
 he'd acted, and shed also told m