The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-02-01

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they must be read and keep on read
ing them so. To teach this dramatic
infant how to walk ana talk was an
Gnwelcome labor.
US took Daphne into his Office and
pulled out set OF parts. When she
stumbled over them he cast his eyes
heavenward In his swift impotence,
He explained them with 4 yinegary
gentleness. He talked to her of the
canons of Interpretation. He walked
through her scenes and spoke her lines
Tor her again and again and yet again,
But, somehow he could not teach her.
He tried everything but beating
hen. He battered her, wheedled her,
parodieo, satlrlzed, rebuked her, and
occasionally he cursed her. She did
not rebel even against his profanity,
p.e"ause she had no confidence In hef-
self to support her resistance. She
felt that she was far worse than he
said she was when he said she was
worst. She used all her funds Of res
olution In keeping from throwing down
the part and running away in tears.
She had none left for asserting her
right TO politeness.
Once Daphne was out in the street
again and released from the ordeal of
pleasing Patterson, youth and ambi-
ton brought hope back again. Broad.
way at twilight was athrob with en-
thusiasm and she caught zest from the
crowds. She was going home to study,
carrying her little set of textbooks like
a schoolgirl. But she felt the wings
of conquest Hedging at her ankles or
the wheel Of fortune spinning under
her toes.
Her very first effort had succeeded.
She was a woman with a salary. She
would be no longer n parasite on any
man. She had career and business
as well as the best of them.
Her mother was at home alone.
Leila had gone from that tea party
to another 10 which Mrs. Kip was not
invited. Daphne's mother greeted her
with relief. She told her news with a
gush of enthusiasm. 1t left Mrs. Kip
cold, very cold.
She.was plous, church-golng wom-
an, Mrs. Kip. She had always looked
upon the theater as training school
for the still lower regions. She went
TO plays occasionally, but usually with
feeling Of dissipation and worldli-
ness. Besides 1t was one thing to see
plays and another to ace them.
Daphne tried to reason her mother
out of her backwoods prejudlces, but
she only frightened her the more. Mrs.
Kip retired to her room to write an
urgent telegram to her husband de-
handing that he come on at once and
rescue his child. She always called on
him in an emergency and he always
responded.
Leila came home eventually fun of
gossip and triumph. Her Dutilh gown
had made n tremendous success; the
other women wanted to murder her.
Mrs. Kip broke in on her chronicles
with the dismal announcement OF
Daphne's new insanity. Leila was nj.
most as bitter in opposition as Mrs
Kip had been, but from quite another
motive Leila had aristocratic i'm.
pulses and looked forward to social
splendors. She would gain no help
from the fact that her husbands sister
was theatrical struggler.
Daphne escaped an odlous battle
with her by referring to the need OF
close study, and retreated into hel
own room, locking her mother out.
She stayed there, repeating her lines
over and over and trying to remember
the action that went with them as
Miss Kemble had played IL. She had
quick memory, but the information OF
the lines gave her extraordinary diff.
Guilty.
She remembered one OF Miss KEN
ble's most delicious effects. She came
on the stage unannounced and, paus
ing in the doorway, smiled whimsically
and said, "How do you. dor" That was
ADJUST "How do you dof" But she
uttered it SO deliclously that a'rlpple
of joy ran through the audience
, Daphne tried to master the trick of It.
but with no success. She said "How
do you do?" In dozens of ways, with
no result except TO render the phrases
meaningless gibberish.
Daphne flung down the part she was
studying and flung away ambition, and
went out TO tell the family that she
agreed with them.
She was confronted by Leila in q
role of despair. Bayard had teIe-
phoned that he could not get home for
dinner. He would not be home In
time TO take Leila to the theater as
he had promised.
Leila was in frenzy. She had moth
ing to do but wait for her man to
come and take her somewhere
Daphne understood the tragedy of the
modern wife: lowered with freedom
pampered with amusements, deprived
of the blessing of toll, unaccustomed
TO seragllan torpor, she must yet walt
on the whims or necessities OF her hus-
band.
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