THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1932.
The Late Arnold Bennett's Last Long Story
"DREAM OF DESTINY"
(Copyright Strictly Reserved.)
CHAPTER VIL Phoebe's dressing-room wos a double apartment.
In the Arat abe recolved, and did trifies to her face and hair; in the
second she seriously dressed and
great English play."'
glanced behind and sank on to a chair. She glanced at Roland, an 11 in appeal, but Roland happened not to catch her eyo.
A
UNFINISHED
MASTERPIECE
Arnold Bennett's last long story was left unfinished, but this does not spoil its worth.
.or readable quality, but rather|| adds a mystery value which will be found very intriguin...”.
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"They've only come to have look at me!" said a loud volco- Phoebe's. As if they hadn't been victorious star, the future idol of looking at me all the damned even Mr. Friar was restless. He had London, the signer of autographs ing 1" At the sound Roland turned
Silonca! no love of the dressing-room atmos- at the stage-door, the supreme sharply.
Confusion guest at suppers, at Sunday din- Consternation! Phoebe had broken phere; he hated strangers.
"Well, my pet," said he, "I'll do-ners, and at the smartest lunches. the rules. Suddenly it occurred art. We'll send the call her for The wretched creature could act on that what she was suffering from you. And if you see a light under the stage, but not off. She kept re- might be hysterin, sequel of ex- andreasod and dressed. Under a
my door, come in and BCL me. penting, weakly, the same formal haustion and strain, He thought: famous actor-manager, long dead, Your mother will be up. And I phrosts of gratitude, because she "How do you deal with hysterin, if the theatre had had a grandiose shall be seriously astounded if could not invent fresh ones. People it is hystoria?" And it must be. past, in which liverted attendents
whom she did not know seized hor (Never before had he had to deal Yet he played a spectacular part even be Nunny doesn't wait up too."
And he nodded to Roland and lmp hand and stuck to it, and with a hysterical woman. hind the scenes, Thero werd now,
at went, taking his wife's arm with called her by her Christian namo, must deal with her, because she np- either bahlad or in front, no
protectiveness. affectionato
Be-and oven fondly kissed her on her parently expected him to do so, and "I'm so sorry. 1 didn't know what tendants more glorious than com- missionaires; but the dressing fore he reached the stage-door ha stage-complexion. And though a because apparently he was her sole I was saying. Renily I didn't.
ex-fow went, the majority stayed; friend present. The first thing didn't say it. I only heard it." rooms remained, with the addition began to have inklings of the
awaiting his star-they could not persuade themselves was to clear the room.
Then there was a sharp double rap of hot and cold water; and Phoebe Perience
"I think wo'd all better go." he on the door. Phoebe shrioked. was installed, as of right, in the daughter. The stairs were thick to leave; having saluted genius, best of them. She stood in the re-with ascending admirers of the they stayed on, staring at genfus said. smiling faintly to the atricken Roland would have locked the door, A loud-admirers. "Miss Friar has been but an employeo irresistibly enter- ception-cubicle, with her parents star and many other admirers were und staring, fascinated.
a tremendous strain and ed and Roland (who had been sitting crowding through the stage-door, ticking alarm-clock on the mantel-under
utterly no effort to plece littered with oddments, be-she's
exhausted." In Mr. Adderton's complimenta," by one. The hind which a score of well-wishing lellence the admirers fled away. He bore a tray with with the old people), and one or whose keeper mado
an opened The first night of "The Tenement eager, haughty creatures, all in telegrams had been planed by the hurrying as if from the Infection bottle of champagne and several two mere flattering acquaintances, examine them one
to of a plague. Roland shut the tumblers--not champagne glasses. Girl" was over; it was going down evening dress, surged Imperiously dresser, indicated five minutes into history. No speeches; no past the janitor, as Roland himself twelve. Phoebe wished to heaven door. The fat, comfortable dresser Roland took the tray: the employee that Instead of boing in the dres-appeared from the inner cubicle. vanished. Holding the tray with champagne; no party on the stagel had once done at a rehearsal.
"How clover of you!" Phoebe one hand, Roland locked the door. "It's all owing to you," Phoebe ingroom she was sitting on her And the author not in the house!
-elso could to Roland. "If daddy's bed and listening to his breathed. "Nobody
"That's all right!" he said, with The Arst-night had been solid murmured asido
was careful lightness of tone. "Now!" and unquestionable success; and you hadn't looked after that third aardenic, tender analysis of the have done it." There sho
(Continued on Page 10.) Mr. Adderton, the manager, fore- act as you did, it would never have evening's sensations. At last she again, making him unique on earth. aceing a run of at least four hund-got ever."
"Nonsense!" Roland protested.
red performances, was in no mood to
he thought: "She's only kowiow to the public or to indulge And his company. Moreover, having saying that because she's fond of Damn- but recently wasted a large me. Women are like that. quantity of champagne on an ex-ed it they don't always believe what pansivo failure he had given
Etc. Still, an they want to believe." ordor, before the result of the per- he was happy. The conversation formance was known, against any could not continue. Members of provision of champagne or other the audience thronged into the alcohol, and as the applause grew, dressingroom, and each seemed re act upon act, he had felt less and be more resplendent and more en-i less Inclined to countermand his thusiastic than the last. Superla- order. Success. Indubitable auc- tives abounded; superlatives jostled cesa, had hardened him. Just as it one another in the stling air. was to hardon the box-office officials Everybody entered who wanted to was kept on the following day. He was busy enter, for the door
Impossible to close firmly declining two other plars wide open.
You could not shut which he had been on the very point it.
out
of buying, for in his heart he had adulation; you dared not deny not anticipated success for "The feverish persons who would not be Tenement Giri". In the Intervals denied and who arrived with the of declining plays he was seeing the express intention of asserting that 'Librarica' representatives and Phoebe was the greatest emotional maintaining to everybody that he actress who ever lived, or ever could had been absolutely sure of a live. And Phocte, alight, frail, any triumph since the third rehearsal. (despite aimilar scenes Success was buzzing not only in the York), stood at the receipt of spacious managerial room but in all laudatory custom, shaking hands "So the dressing-rooma and on all the and shaking hands, anying flights of stairs, And dramatic good of you." "You're too kind", -critics were spoeding in taxis to;"I'm so glad you like it", and com- Fleet Street to write: "At last the pletely failing to act the radiant,
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