The New York herald., 1922-11-26
'IThe Romantic Age"
I~ Is Midsummer Milne

The heroine of "The Romantic Age"
The comedy by A. A. Milne noio Play
.ro az the Comedy TheGtsr, Is Melt
-.,,de KpoipIe- a duBt-SeI teh0 DREAMS
- n Lqncelot tUho tviH come riding
.a,.o,,ob the forest TO claim her. IN
stead she is beSet by tdfty su,tors ~
got togs. Her feeling that romance
IS dead IN The tcorld is deepened oy
listening to her stout ana od0to
mother. A colloquy betlceet them IS
here reprinted from the SECOND
TloDsp Of Milue j,lst issued By hnopJ.
Mrs Knowle-oh, Sandy, I've just re-
,,a,,hered 1MellsaAde shudders). What
IS n darling child? Are you cold? That
comes of standing by the open window
in p treacherous climate like this CLOSE
Athe window and come and SIT down
properly.
NIel,sande-It's a wonderful night.
mother. Midsummer night. I'm not
cold.
Mrs. Knowie-But you shuddered.
aistinctlv saw you shudder. Didn't you
see her, JaneY
.rane-rm afraid wasn't looking,
Aunt Mary.
Melisande-I didn't shudder because
was cold. I shuddered because you
will keep calling me by that horrible
name. ] shudder every time ! hear IT,
Mrs Knowle (surprised) What name
Sandy? ~.
/ why did you ehristen me ny such
wonderful. beautiful. magical name as
Melisande if you were going to call me
I Sandy?
Mrs. Knowle-Well, dear, as l think
I've told you, that was mistake OF
vour fathers ! suppose he got II out
of some hook. l should certainly never
have agreed to 1t il / had heard him
distinctly. / thought he said Millicent-
after your Aunt Milly. And not neing
very well at the time ana leaving IL al
i to him never really knew aoeut IL un,i,
n was too late to do anything. ala
saw TO your father Cant We chrlsteh
her again?" But there was nothing III
+he Prayer Book about 1t except ripper
Z years and nobody seemed to know when
riper years began. Besides, we We're al
calling YOU Sandy then. l think SANDY
Is a very pretty name, don't you Jane!
Jane-oh, but don't you think Nell
sande is beautiful. Aunt Mary? l mean
really beautiful.
Mrs. Knowle-Well, Il never seems TO
me quite respectable, not for nicely
brought UP young girl in Christian
house 1t makes me think of the sort OF
person who meets a strange young mar
TO whom she has never been introduced
and talks to him in a forest with her
hair coming down. They find her after
wards floating in pool. Not at all the
thing one wants for ones daughter.
Jane-Oh. but how thrilling 1t sounds
Mrs Knowle-Well, ] think you are
safer with Jane" dear. Your mother
knew what she was about And If can
save my only child from floating In a
rcol by calling her Sandy, | certainly
think it is my duty TO do so'
Melisande (to herself ecstatically)--
Melisande
Mrs. Knowle Ito MeIisande) )-Oh.
and talking about floating in pool
reminds me about the bread sauce at
dinner tonight. You heard what your
father said? You must give cook a
good talking to in the morning.. She has
been getting very careless lately. i
don't know what's come over her.
Melisande-P0e come over her. When
you were over her, everything was all
right You know all about housekeep-
ing; you take an interest in it. don't.
hate IL. How can you expect the
house to be run properly when they all
know I hate 1T? Why did you ever give