Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1913 — UNREHEARSED, BUT MADE HIT [ARTICLE]

UNREHEARSED, BUT MADE HIT

Climax to DramaWe Act Not What Author Intended, Though It Pleaeed the Audience. Cecil Raleigh, the writer of melodnmii, waa talking; to aa American correspondent in London about stage •Mitretemps. , "In one of my beet plays)* he said, •J introduced in Act 11. a novelty in the shape of a skating pond with real

came with the words, spoken by my heroine, 'Oh, here's the professor — isn’t he wonderful!* whereupon the professor, in fur trim med skating coat, proceeded to perform a marvelous series of grapevine, twists and Inside rolls and w hat-no., tn the midst whereof the curtain fell. "Well, one evening I dropped in at Drury Lane to see the skating pond climax. "My heroine cried with sweet vivacity: Oh, here’s the professor—isn’t he wonderful!* and all eyes centered ex

pectantly on the fur-coated professor, and he, poor fellow, shot proudly forth, tripped over something or other, and with outspread arms and legs fell like a ton of brick. “The curtain descended amid roars of laughter. Though we didn’t repeat it, I believe that this accidental cßmax was really more telling than oer right one.” Human Growth Jn New York. Every six minutes a new human being is born in New York.