The sun., 1916-12-31

Hour Glass One small set Of scenery:
the rest just curtains.
THE Wellesley club here offered US
$3.50 to give n performance at Carnegie
Lyceum. When the curtain went up on
that performance We hadn't one cent.
not n single cent We got the $3.50 for
that afternoon, and with that we went
To Boston"
Yes" broke in Mr.. Veiller-this wa
In the dressing you remember
and you may quote me as saying
that intellectual Boston Is an accom-
plished society OF erafters. From poets
10 college presidents they c%ongratu-
lated us on our artistic success and
asked for sixteen passes apiece. You
can guess whether VIC made n
money in Boston"
All these interesting revelations
came from that glimpse OF the wedding
ring. When, the day after Christmas.
Miss Wycherly was asked II she wasn't
: afraid Of losing the new opal ring. she
said:
II hope not. l haven't lost any
thing for two years. and she raped
on wood.
hlN SlENTStltlOrs
"N-no. But I'm like the man In
Rome who took on his hat whenever
he passed a statue OF Jupiter. His
companion asked him why he did II.
well he said. Jupiter isn't In
now; hut there's no telling when he
may be-
Perhaps I'm like that. Anyway
2 I'm mt epnnretttlN,s oh1,,t .~,1.
They're my favori,e stone. As for
Bayard. he has no superstitlons about
anything. Not even any beliefs" she
finished as she got up.
This time tho opal flashed in the
light of the candles she 1T against the
growing dusk. freight. darkness
candle light-thls woman with the
subtle and complex personality be.
longed witt all three. Considering the
part she is playing II is a curious coin
cidence that some people say she 4.
psychic. She hears things that others
around her do not. They say she di,
vines them through another sense. bu,
she doesn't admit hat.
at must he that I do hear Them
she said, 'for my ears are supersensi.
tive. Heaven knows I wish they
weren't! Here am I, for instance. with
n perfectly good home and a room !
love-yct l have to 20 to n hotel "a
sleep. In a house like this there are
always noises. little or big: people
walking overhead. n book dropped. q
crcaking board, some one with a de-
plorablc inclination to music. And
,.l,n,, .,,. ,,a,,n a.- al -,l.--f--
could sleep Just as well IL you told me
YOU were going playfully to stick q
knife into me now and then as ! car
here
SIS your role in the play a diflcul,
onc?"
at Is the second one I have had II
n pretty wide experience that Il abso'
lutoly not work at all. The things
was telling you about changing my
height, my voice, my gestures, arr
done practically without effort. 1t l.
as II the role was kindred to my
blood
"The other part With which ] hat
the same experience was that Of Tf1h,
in THE Hour Glass After I had beer
playing it for a while some one wanted
me To take the role OF the Wise Womd,
IN the same play. ! said that II I die
| should fail on TiOhc the moment III
appeared. STAY him. throw his body
over the footllghts and 20 on will
his part, ] couldn't bear to see any
body else play iighe! I should die
That's al there Is to It,"
Did YOU want to play Mary Tnrne,
in within the Law"
Am ! human? or course I did"
\ smile Of amused reminiscenc,
dawncd in her eyes,
whats more, ] did play the rol,
once. Two summers c | was NJ
n; IA little town In Canada where my
father Is living now. lie Is the doctor
there, It's q remote little place; &C