Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting

wn to our steady, regular gait, having got over the false starts and breaks and nervous

nd; and the writer was one of those men whose subjects, like an unhealth

she was the step-daughter of "So-and-so," that her own father, who was "Somebody," had died of "something," and had been buried "somewhere"; and then that hair split, and he proceeded to expatiate on the t

lainly between the lines after years of separation. Suddenly he began to adorn me with a variety of fine qua

ase under consideration, assuring me he would act upon my advice. If I thought he had been too severe in his conduct

influenced wholly by the welfare of her children, or whether

sband was so recent an acquisition as to be still considered a novelty. And yet I, all unacquainted with divorce proceedings, legal sepa

" is hers, and "those other sins"

people, even in our sins, and I know no word in the English language we strive harder to avoi

we have refinement enough to refer to

ng words of another paragraph, which said: "God! if women suffer in real life over the loss of children, husband, and home, as you suffered before my very eyes last night in the play;

ut if it was brief, it was at least not flippant; and before writing it, I, in my tu

or have read to the audience the returns as fast as they co

ris and James Parselle i

ensed with. In the quarrel scene between the two women, the first and supposedly dead wife, in her character of governess to her own child

and was always looked forwar

d withdrawn, and for the first time the two women were alone together. Both keyed up almost to the breaki

ir breath, feeling there was a death struggle coming. And just at that very moment of tensest feel

l get the return

er. Under cover of the noise I said to my companion, w

, and the laughter stopped as suddenly as it had burst out, and our scene went on, receiving even more than i

st act was on. I was slipping to my knees in my vain entreaty to be allowed to see my children as their mother, not merely as their dying governess

hildren! I've lived through such lo

at the death scene, a lady was carried out in a faint, we were none of us surprised to hear it was she who had so far forgot