The sun., 1919-01-22
GHOST DRAWS LINE
AT AFTERNOON TEA
''Invisible Foes" Mystic Star
Goes on Strike Against
Posing as a Freak.
PRESS AGENT IN DESPAIR
But Flora Macdonald Does
Her Best to Entertain Bat
terry Of Writers.

The hard worked ghost that's walking
at present in the Harris Theatre on
Forty-secon% street-now don't every
actor md actress out OF a Job rush Off
on reading the above sentence and bonn
bard the Harris management for a Job.
because the ghost referred to Is not the
one that pays salaries when It walks,
but the impalpable visitant that Is send
Ing thrills all over Broadway (ees press
agenO by rustling curtains and sending
messages through tables and otherwise
in a mysterious way enabling tho
beauteous heroine in THE Invisible Foe"
to provo that her lover did not commit
the crime of which he is accused in the
first act
To proceed: The ghost that's star
ring at the Harris Theatre was peeved.
1t founced into a corner of the book
case, packing its filmy gray incorporcal-
ity into a square inch or so of space
behind a gorgeously painted wooden set
OF Balzac in the neat and inconspicuous
way that ghosts have when they wish
to avoid notice and proceeded to sulk.
1t was yesterday afternoon, and the
ghost was entitled to an afternoon OF
with tho rest OF tho cast, there being no
matinee, and there was the stage filled
with people and the footlights lit and
Rose Shulsinger, the press agent, rush
Ing around calling in loud tones for the
ghost because she had all the reporters
in town and lot OF feature writer's and
Fannie Hurst and so on invited there to
a spook party. and what was q spook
party without a ghost?
Quits Job After Rehearsal.
Also Flora Macdonald. the fair young
heroine OF THE Invisible Foe" was
there sitting on sofa trying to go into
one OF her frances to see II her Scotch
second sight wouldn't discover where the
ghost had gone TO and meaning: Pose,
that ghost was on the Job at rehearsal
this morning and promised solemnly to
pour at our tea, but don't blame me,
because ghosts are always unreliable
ard hard to keep track OF because OF
their capacity for fading away into
nothingness."
Meanwhile reporters were arriving,
also Fannie Hurst. who had torn her
self away from the sixteenth page Of
the conversation between the Yiddsh
mother and daughter In her last story
on receipt Of n telephone message from
Press Agent Shulsinger that the ghost
al the Harris was waiting to read her
palm And did all this move the cruel
heart of the ghost IN the corner behind
the wooden set OF Balsac? 1t did not.
Malevolent!y the ghost peered out upon
Of diutr \
and thus soliloQuized:
Right here is where I strike Yes,
cir. when I signed a contract TO goose
flesh broadway nothing went into that
contract about afternoon teas. Whaddo
they expect of poor ghost anyhow ?
Amt II enough for me to be at every
rehearsal working and hearing the flesh
and blood actors talking about the fun
they have spending their salaries when
they get them, and mo kept out of all
the glad times because ghosts are per-
soma non gratfe In safes and most every
place except fool spook party like
this? Dinged IL I don't float over TO
the Plymouth Theatre and get Walter
Hanpden to produce Hamlet's fathers
ghost for me and and Hamlet 8
fathers ghost will form a union of the
theatrical ghosts and lay down a few
rules to protect us Yes. and we'll rope
in the walking ghost that pays salaries
and swear to have corns whenever our
demands are ignored
Hides in David CopperneId.
Chuckling inadvertently the ghost Of
mo Invisible Foe" flowed into the hol
low interior OF David Couperfeld
which figures In the play and composed
Itself TO take nap until the time for
the evening performance at which /,
was duo TO appear.
The above Is the true explanation of
why Press Agent Shulsinger and Miss
Flora Macdonald were unable to keen
their promise of a ghost host at the
party at the Harris Theatre yesterday
afternoon. However, the party finally
eventuated and pretty good time was
had by all. Miss Macdonald at last
gavo up the ghost, and having done "a
became quite lively. reading the palms
or assembled writers and others and
telling their fortunes from tea leaves,
In the latter achievement she WAS baked
at first by the sad fact OF the tea that
was handed around being strained and
having no leaves, but a pretty little
actorine went TO the rescue and breyed
fresh pot that was all leaves, where
upon the heroine OF The Invisible
Foe" discovered fortunes for all pres
Gnu III the potion or their cups
Fannie Hurst demanded q palm read
ing. SO Miss Macdonald dreamed for b
time over the hand OF the author and
then told her that there was a man-a
man-something had. In short, hap.
pened that had caused what one might
call gaps In what she was doing, and Il
would be we'll for her to stop everything
and turn TO the thing that was in her
mind.
Press Agent Makes a Find.
At this interesting point sudden rnys-
terious scratching behind the bookca %
caused all TO jump. and Press Agent
Shulsinger, who couldn't give up the
ghost. but had been proving contin.
uously around getting down on her
knees looking under things for said
ghost, shrieked gladsomely: