The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-11
ON SECOND THOUGHT
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'Thedaing with Rara.
PROLOGUE.

Adelaide-The paper says Theda
Bara is making history in this play
of hers.
Us-sacred or profaae?
Adelaide-It says
Us-What are you reading, the ad-
vertising? How like a woman. A
bundled and twenty-six columns of
news and you read the advertising,
Adelaide-Have you ever seen Miss
Rara?
Us-Heaven forbid! I've seen Mel
lie the Beautiful Cloak Model"
Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl"
and The James Brothers,; saw Jim
Jeffries play "Davy Crockett" once.
Adelaide think ~ would be fun
to go.
in time OF sorrow, q refuge in stress
and storm. but she has ne sense of
humor. Anyway, you know what I
said when ! left the dramatic desk
of the Grigsby City Clarion.
Adelaide-Yeu say great many
things, You said "Pinky' Wingert
introduced you to those TIVE women.
found out afterward that you intro
dueed "Pinky." I can't understand
how you get naked up with people of
that sort
Us-I won't GO if anybody is tied to
rter of a sawmill. i don't want TO
see anybody pushed off bridge or
rescued from a burning building, and
don't care to see any more heme-
steads saved from the mortgage- I've
seen more than a Thousand heme-
steads saved from the metgage. / say
let the mertgage take 'em; the roof
nearly always needs fixing anyway.
Adelaide don't think it is any
thing like that. Yeu might get story
out Of it: you're always looking for q
story.
Us-All right, we'iI go. But when
I get tired I'm going home no matter
what you think the ether people
think of us for leaving.
ACT 1,
The curtain rises en- what at first
glance appears to be a doctors office,
but one knows instiHetively il is not
a doctors office because of the alb
senee of aged periodicals. Ne copies
of Outing for July. 1915, OF ct the
| 1913, are in sight, One learns later
that it is a. ''iah'' and that the stuffed
! leather chair in the center of the
stage is deadly machine, The scien-
! fist is discovered near right upper en-
| trance seated at a desk. They are Civ
| about it because eating interferes With
| his work. The leading juvenile comes
in and urges him to dress for this
party, but that is subterfuge or hyper
bole, one or the other, Anybody ear
! see the fellow already Is dressed. Hi'
evening pants and his plated shir
show quite plainly under his Office
| his tux" Miss Bara energies from
left lower entrance and somebody il
the balcony aRplauds. She has beer
out doing good and is very tired, poo
dear. II is always the way when on
does good. Either he exhausts hirrsei
- r. r1-r i =
both. 1t is apparent also that Mis-
Bara has been to the Pupxsutawne,
hairdresser and the Goshen dressmak
err. She is not only living the part; sh,
| is also looking it. Certainly one woult
have no pride in being Wrapped" b,
such a enc. When Miss Bara speaks
it is learned that she is, fer the mo
nent, lyric soprano leaning heavil,
on the treble clef. Having slipped
int his ''tux' the scientist reappear
and they clinch down center The,
are, 1t appears, engaged. Then Mis-
Bara inadvertently touches the intri
cate mechanism of the deadly maehin,
and fleps over dead She is aimos
imm ediately restored to life by til,
same machine, but as she comes bael
to life her soul leaves by the window
1t did so. Adelaide saw it. Adelaid,
said 1t locked like q dove. Miss Bar;
| struggles to her feet throws hersei
scientist to marry her right away Sh,
wants to be married that very night
Box score of Act 1: Crimes, 0; easu
alties, /; eellgsien. suspected.
ACT II
Almost over night Miss Bara ha
become eontralte. she has beef
shopping on Fifth avenue and to con
siderable purpose. II one has good
looking arms and shoulders they d,
one well on Fifth avenue. The scien
lists head hurts and he is "nuttier,
If anything, then he was in the frs
act. The scene is Miss Bara's boudoi
| and the men have begun to rail.
round. Nest of them, it seems, hav
night keys. One of them is bitterl.
reproached by the star for coming II
after midnight. She was right abeu
it, too. 1t does reflect en- a woman
| He says he's clean" but has had hi
| life insured in her favor for S100.00l