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A Part Good to Play In
Real Life
By CARL WILLIAMS
Melroee was agog with excite,
meat The local billpoeter was
hanging the paper of the Den ham
{ Repertoire oompany for a three
i night ran. Ana Maggie Denham
hailed from Melroee. "Margaret
! Denham* she was billed, bat Melroee
rooogniaed her.
It was the first time that what
Melroee called ua real theater
troupe* had visited the little town.
This in itself would have meant
; much, bat Maggie in addition creati
ed an epoch in town history.
Melroee oould not know that she
was to be a 6tar only for this brief
engagement in Melroee. Maggie
had happened to mention that she
; had been born in jneiroee, ana ine
; astute manager had changed the
name of the company from the Met1
ropolitan to Denham Repertoire
! company for the three nigbt stay.
He "well knew the value of a local
j name in a small town. Occasionally
Maggie had let fall some scrap
of information as to her departure
' from the town that told the rest of
j the old story of the girl who had
j run away from home to go upon the
j stage.
Maggie's story differed from mo6t,;
j for she had succeeded in achieving j
' her ambition. She had become aj
fairly useful player of parts in the j
smaller companies.
This was her second season with j
the Metropolitan, and she smiled :
confidently when Quinlin, the manager,
asked her if she felt strong
enough to play the star part for
three days.
It involved a little extra rehearsal,
but Maggie was delighted.
She would show Tom Chambers and
the re6t of Melrose that she had :
made a success s
Tom came' ahead of the rest of
Melrose, because there had been a
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' UJUC WilCli WICOC INU WC1C UUlUDb V**gaged,
and she still thought tenderly
of those courtship days.
She looked about eagerly when
the company arrived; but, though'
every one else in town appeared to t
have come to the train to stare,'
curiously at Maggie Denham's |
troupe, Tom was not there,
j With a curious sense of blank-}
oess Maggie climbed into the ram- j
shackle bus that was to convey the
company to the hotel. Her triumphal
entrance into her home
town had gone for naught just because
one man was not there.
She was angry and surprised to
realise that she still cared more for
Chambers than she had ever admitted
when he had tried to win her.
She had not long to wait, however,
for information about the recreant
one. Presently a strmg of
callers came to the hotel, and all o 1
the friends of her 9chool days
crowded the hotel parlor, all talking
at once.
From the babel of voices Maggie
gathered that Tom had left town
the day before with, the evident purpose
of avoiding her. The blood
throbbed in her temples.
It was to give Tom a lesson that
she wanted to show to Melrose how
well she had succeeded. Now he
would not witness her triumph, and
she turned strangely depressed until
the manager, versed in the handling
of the erratic women of the
stage, sensed the situation.
"Anyhow, you can do your best,"
Quinlin reminded her, "and leave
behind a record that he will be
proud of."
"And who may 'he' be?" demanded
Maggie truculently.
"I don't know," confessed Quinlin
promptly, "but there is usually a
'he' somewhere, and since he does
not seem to be around I thought
you might like my suggestion."
Maggie waved him oil with a jest- '
ing remark, but her heart was lighter.
Here was something that she
could do. So it happened that even
her fellow players wondered that
evening at the brilliancy with which
she played her part.
"You'll land on Broadway yet,"
they assured her, but even this
promise of reaching the goal of all
actors did not cheer the girl, and
when the performance was over she
hurried back to the hotel, only to
creep into bed and cry herself to
sleep.
On the third and last day of the
engagement Tom appeared suddenly
in town, and, though she could
not see him in the badly lighted
auditorium that night, Maggie felt
that he was there, and she acted
with a touch of tenderness that lent
new beauty to a naturallw sympathetic
role.
John Benjamin, one of the im
portant eastern theatrical men, had j
stopped over to wait for a train
and had drifted into the opera
house, where the manager overwhelmed
him with attentions. As
he watched the girl work he nodded
his head.
"I'd like to steal your leading woman,"
Benjamin said to Quinlin. "1
can place her in a road company for
a year under one of my good stage
directors and then bring her into
New York."
"Go ahead and steel," invited
Quinlin. "She's a nice little woman,
and if you oan place her the
contract she made with me won't
hold her back. Ill tell her to write
to you."
The big manager nodded his
thanks, looked at his watch and
harried off to make bis train.
.Maggie only nodded carelessly,
when Qninlin harried beck with
word that the way to Broadway was
open to her at last.
She ooold not think of business
when Tom was out there in the
darkened auditorium watching her.
She needed to give all of her attention
to her performance, and she
played the last act with a rich sincerity
that won the audience completely.
Not until the curtain had fallen
and the other players crowded
around to congratulate her upon
the opportunity she had earned did
she seem to realize what it all
meant, and then she aocepted listlessly
what the other women of her
profession would have given years
of their life to attain.
She slipped from the 6tage door
alone to go to the hotel, but as she
emerged Tom stepped forward with
outstretched hands.
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"1 naa to oorae to see you, ne
said brokenly. "At first I vowed
that I would stay out of town while
you were here, but I had to come
back, and I'm glad I did.
"I thought that you would be
tough and common, Maggie, like
the Teat, but jou can't be that and
play as you did tonight. That wasn't
acting, and when I saw you as you
really are, and not as I thought
that you would be, I wanted to get
up and about to you to come right
to me and we'd get married, as we
used to plan when we were children.
Will vou come and marry
me, Maggie? I've got a fine farm
now, and you'll never regret it,
dear."
"I don't think I will regret it,"
agreed Maggie happily, "but I didn't
think you'd want me, Tom.'
"You know what they think about
actresses here," he reminded her. "I
guess I thought pretty much the
same, but you?well, when I saw
you come on the stage looking just
as you used to do I knew you were
my Maggie still!"
He clasped her hands, unable to
say more, but Maggie understood.
To the Melrose minds all player
folk were followers of the devil.
Perhaps the ingenuous role she had
played had won Tom. He wanted
for his wife the woman she had
played. And she knew it would be
easy to continue in that role with
Tom as opposite.
She felt that she could continue
her success in that part, and so she
let him kiss her before she pushed
him gently from her with a whispered
oommand to come to the hotel
in the morning. Together they 1
would see Quinlin and secure the
release from her contract.
As she entered the hotel the manager
was waiting for her. He had
taken from his trunk her contract
for the season, and this he handed
to her.
"This sets you free, my girl. You
can go to Benjamin and Broadway,"
he said smilingly. "I'm glad that at
last the Metropolitans have contributed
a real star to Broadway/'
"I'm not going to Benjamin," replied
Maggie. "I'll play the sdason
out for you if you want me to, but
I made a real human hit in the part
tonight, and I'm going to keep on
playing it for Tom here in Melrose."
She Flared Up.
During a performance at a Pa- !
risian theater a man and his wife J
had to quarrel on the stage?the <
woman in a fit of jealousy, the man j
trying to persuade her that she was |
too suspicious and too passionate. '
Both were acting with great spir- <
it when the wife moved her arm too j
near a candle, and her muslin dres9 j
was instantly in flames.
The performers kept their pres- '
ence of mind, however. The hus- '
band extinguished the fire and, pro- <
ceeding with his part, interpolated: i!
"You see, ray dear, I was right. J
You are ever ready to flare up!" <
Character. <
Character gives weight to one'9
words and permanence to one's
acts. Character secures the confidence
of those who employ us, the
respect of those above us, the love
of those on our level, the loyalty of
those beneath. Character is the
guinea stamp on the gold, the ring
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