Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-05

NNnerea; iac prospect saHecd. Mrs
Nhipp.e then turned suddenly {,
l'al1'iott and demanded to know vhu
Kept them from putting Oh u pla,
written a. Well as acted by local {al
cht. VINO had norc talent and train
i.!'t iuH that chore than Harriet N:ht
wrote many Of the items each Vcel
Ter tn" paper and once received fv'
"oli;i'S Tor an "nocdo;e sent to the
foulh2* Companion. Yes. the very
idea. Harriet Should write a nlal,
Harriet. bloS@olned out in cIinl+e.
and said She could never do it in II,
wide wide world. But ilas.fictt'
le;.il Wa ;oing pit-a-pnt and III TIC
kings horHcs and all the kings men
+ couldn't nave dragged hc5 into Il per
m"acht refusal. Sc they lad Il
spend fifteen minutes coaXinn hcl. and
at the eid Of that time Harriet;
agreed to write Il play and MIS-.
Whlpplc agreed to continue the c.tli-
vas" OF the town aud SEQ wno would
be Wiling to act in the play which
b Harriet wrote.
1--WE ought to have specialize; IT,
tween the acts" said VI Whn,j'o.
"&omconc ought To cur o. &C.
ing CIR rccitc something's"
llls. Williams suggested getting
~. 'oEnso'@ wife 10 sing: she
Carried the air in the Methodist
church. But Ophe!ia Blair said the
doctor's wife was a Methodist and
didn't believe in the stage. And then
trey suggested Hrs. Parker Turner
Wilosc he band manages The gas
Wo'hS. But the argument was adj
TA"e"d Mat Yrs. I:.rlc!' Turner had
*,if'lofl tlu.slc Tor y ear IN Nov YORK
and would consider it beneath her
dignity to appear. in such Il vulgar
loW-broW capacity a.' a bctwcen-tho-
act. feature in Il snlall-tov,n show.
II rani:ed her with little cigars or
v2ntriloquiatS or ice water.
ave ncc1in't lose @ny sleep over it,"
#lapptd Grace E;.v'jins, "bccau.c if
worse come; t. worse wen ct Nib
henderson. Leave il to me as pat
Of the .iIu+:c.'
Then Mr.. Mhipplc said: 81 Won
der il we can get Gcorgic Griffin to
help u with rchcarsal4?: The Ma
sons bud him last year in their MIN
itrol show.'
Sure wcll &ot Geor2ic,' declared
C!~Aintin2 Blair. He's properly
maa at the opera house, and if VIC
rent the place, We rent George :
5o!NiccS.'
On the following afternoon Mr..
Blake Whirp.c took stock OF herself
and %ir'cd up her loins and APP
.'ilr'i 20 hcr pcr.on >undly dlshos Of
pciiun'clT and looked at the back OF
nDr head with Il hand mirror and was
sure shc htil her notebook and pen |
Gil. Then size ordered the smallest
boy to wipe his nose and stop hollc.-
ing and she sailed forth into the by
wayi a. a fisher of men.
Ii il verbose to record her visits
Of t!aa- afternoon or the amazing a.
Aount Of duties demanding undivided
4ttention during the coming month on
he part of oar toWnspcoplc chiefly
na!c which prevented them from dc !
their dramatic ability
But Mrs. Whipi;lc was not to be cat
town. She W&> ono Of those who set
heir faces to the star.; and whose
toiec7 reply from far up the heights.
Vt hallpaSt five she came in to Nar-
lett @9d 10 The playwright .hc hand
Vi oVel' q list Of names Of the anoint.
~. And that night Harriet took The
1T hose with cnou"!1 copy paper tc
write a thrcc-dcckcr novel and
'"ou.,,l! Of our o1.~ advertising pen.
H.. 10 ,rVsite it attor it "uo written
She Y 't!t'''tW TO her room and tool
u thc things OF her contcr-tahlo a0,'
prrad thereon last weeks copy Of oUl
title local pepper and fixed the light
md seated herself and WOocI the
muse. And the pencils were indcl-
bic pencil, and Harriet went to bed
hat night with mouth resembling
he eating Of much hucklcbelry pie
Which is mentioned to emphasize her
She wrote an outline
# her play the first night and tried
o make The local characters fit in. ;
t was hopeless and she tore it up.
she tried ii again on the second night t
nd was as far from satisfaction as |
yer. She tried again and again and
hrcc or four times was panic-stlick-
II. Finally she .ogred up her pages
nd looked her work over and pro- t
ounccd it good although the evening {
nd the MORNING were the sixth day. I
iphinG in relief she affivcd to the TOP /
{ her manuscript the highly drama S
c title: "Lady Audrcy's Mistake" t
We never could exactly figure out i
ast what Lady Audrey's mistake was S
unless it was being dragged into d
No n'av At all. Because Lady Au- q
rev was more sinned against than h
inning having at divers times and in f
nndrv seasons before the play open Q
d been treated roughly by a party
n Il WaXed mouStache and n Ming hat