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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE COMIC ACTOR
(Continued from page 7.)
them, "I'm a monk, and I visit adid not smile in retura maiden in prison; then I make jokes to her. That's my part."
"And a very good part, too, I'm eure," said Isabel.
"Oh, it's awfully comic, if that's anything."
<
KING'S
in
response to a compliment paid com- him by the Duke, ber panion, and he was relieved when Lucia declared at last:
"Yes, you make a splendid monk. Now go along and let them make Wil-you up."
as
"Well, then, be thankful, llam dear. I'm sure you'll be good a monk as a duke.”
"Perhaps," he said; but he apoke ironically.
So he shuffled away. "If only they had made me the duke," he could not help thinking, and bis mind grew full with wild con- lecture.
Painted up
"
Many weeks passed. There was in the play a young girl of extra-
and wearing a wig! ordinary talent who took the part which made his head look like a of the imprisoned maiden. Her yellow bladder with a fringe of} beauty was light and delicate, her horsehair he made a more excellent eyes were translucent and monk than he himself had ever expressed ali the shades and dreamed. When he wrapped his tones of youth with
unfor- arma in his sleeves and stared; gettable, ravishing loveliness. lugubriously at himself in the glass She herself
Hike Was
sea- he saw a squat, humbugging lay shell. Her voice, very low and brother, and the sight hurt him. soft, made the other actors give up So he closed his eyes and tried to whispering and listen. William forget himself and the foolish way thought of the voice as being likejhe had apled on the young girl. a bee in a window-pane in summer. He remained like this until thei But her singing voice was of even play began. Then, amid much noise rare, toveller quality; then it was an of orchestra and singing, of actors exquisite soprano which sounded and actresses whispering in the pas- like a dulcimer or the glass hang-sages and rustling their strange ings of a chandelier jingled by a costumes, he shuffled to the wings breeze. From the first rehearsal to which the girl act. She acted her acting was remarkable. By magnificently, singing as sweetly as The intuition she knew how to look, a May-thrush after rain. giove, speak and carry herself. house clamoured for her. When Half the actors were in love she bawed and smiled at the end of with her. William himself felt the act hla whole frame softened in that, in the scenes with her a sort of proud, Tovable admiration he acted more certainly, inspired by of her.
her extraordinary cleverness and During the interyal he had an beauty.
inspiration. He would take her a
It happened that, one evening, as cup of coffee, and, as she drank it, he stood listening as she sang the speak his thoughts upon, her acting song, "Now. doth my heart, impri- and her singing. He seized a cupi soned,. burst its bonds for thee," and ran hither and thither with it; something seemed to melt in his in his hands, spilling the coffee on breast. In a sort of exaltation, hejhis habit, his shoes, his hande, on never ceased gazing at her. After-chairs and property baskets. But wards, he recalled all that had pass-she had vanished and he dare not ed with eternal wonder at himself; ask for her. At last, when the re- and his sleep was broken for think-maining half of the coffee had
grown cold, he put it under a chair) ing of her,
When the time of the first per- and crept away.
Waiting For The Last Act, formance approached, he felt he bore a curious, worshipping kind of It became rapidly more and more! love towards this girl. He reagonising to wait for the last act- mained quiet and secretive about that scene in which he visited the this, watching only for the first sign girl in prison, wept at that touch- of understanding or acknowledging despair she conveyed so admir ment in her without ever speaking ably in the song, "Now doth my heart, Imprisoned, burst its bonds a word.
for thee," and then, drying his
Nervousness at Rehearsal At last the playbills were out bears on his sleeve, made his light- The name of the girl was displayed hearted jokes about the outer world in larger and heavier type than the and gave her the keys to escape.
He sat He would read her names
morose and introspective. rest. "Lucia”—In all the shops 28 he Now, frequently, he wished the play
said.
5
were over. drove to market.
Then his cue came. Although he William implored Isabel not to
stood in readiness for attend the first performance of the bad
hour, he was taken play. "Please
don't be there, half an
by surprise. He tumbled on Come to the matinee instead. 1 shall be so terribly nervous,” he to the stage more like a clown than a monk, and was greeted by ja burst of irrelevant laughter, And since he seemed nervous which, dying down, made silence for even at the dress rehearsal, Isabel the ecstasy of longing and beauti- agreed not to go.
tude which seized the girl as she He arrived early at the theatre, began to sing. His mouth dropped After sorting out his monk's
open. Thch the unexpected costume, he sat down on a property strength of her utterance, and at basket and thought, seriously and the same time Its dulcet tenderness, for the first time, of spanking to the affected him so much that in reality girl. As to what he wanted to say and without warning he burst into to her, he was hot at all clear. He teara. His self-contro! vanished. would, he thought, express some Through his tears the audience ap kind of appreciation of her wonder peared a blnish bank of mist. The ful talent. He rehearsed a private girl herself floated about him like and, very earnest speech to her. He trembled even as he muttered Mon, 8th Feb, 1933 aloud some rigmarole of stumbling flattery. He made a fool of him- self even in the privacy of the dressing-room. But he did not
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9th Feb. care. If he had no illusions as to the loveliness and talent of the girl, he thought, he need have none about the wisdom of speaking.
Presently the rest of the actorsi 28th Jan. arrived and began to dress. The thought of the girl never left him.
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(Continued on Page 11.)
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may be obs tones. Ons was a woman; her, per- Lafood 20th Jan. fame reached hlin with overpower Ceeds have left (he Godowns, and all
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after
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be sub 20th Jan, long brown habit as he passed, ani fect to rent
int Fab.
the low, bes-like voice of the young All claims sgakast the steamer, mn 30th Jan actress called out after him
presented to the Undersigned or before the 8th February, the will not be recognized. S
Brd Feb.
"I say, Brother Bono, don't be in
1983
THEATRE:
COMING
SOON!
THE
LATEST
LUBITSCH
CREATION
TROUBLE
IN
PARADISE"
Shut up and kiss me! good times are just around the corner!.
Two Eves...an Adam-who was something of 'd' make ....How those dames fought over the apple he offered them!
E-LUBITSCH'S TROUBLE IN PARADISE
MIKIAN HOPKINS FRANCIS DE HERBERT MARSHALL
A Brilliant Comedy, Stimulat
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don
For
and a Technical Achievement
of Rare Distinction.
7th Feb. a hurry, Let's look at you. All broken, chafed, and damazed
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a.m. by
In his confusion he felt foolish and a Httle mean, as if discovered 22nd Jan. In some diagraceful act, Mesars. Goddard & Douglas.
29th Jan,
28th Jan.
When the girl turned him about
he wanted to protest, but he only gazed intently at the magnificent dreas of green all with edges of allvery, glistening sequing reachi
to kar ankles and the pure white fan
in her hands. -. Of that earnest and
|Battering ---speech he had com- could remember nothing. He
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st hays & Ravende Officer
vhên damag
mined
will be count
INGSTON &
posed to the dressing room he Hồng Kong, 16c
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