The bicyclers, and three other farces . Bradley. I left mine in my other clothes. Mrs. Bradley. Thats just likeyou men. Yougrow flippant over very serious matters. Formy part, if I am to play Gwendoline, I shallnot bale out the fountain even to save poordear Bessies floor. Yardsley. Oh, it 11 be all right. Only, if yousee the fountain getting too full, speak faster. Barlow. We might announce a race betweenthe heroine and the fountain. It would add. © ^ IT WOULD BE AWKWARD A Dramatic Evening 67 to the interest of the play. This is an ath-letic age. Perkins. I suppose it wouldnt do to turnthe wa
The bicyclers, and three other farces . Bradley. I left mine in my other clothes. Mrs. Bradley. Thats just likeyou men. Yougrow flippant over very serious matters. Formy part, if I am to play Gwendoline, I shallnot bale out the fountain even to save poordear Bessies floor. Yardsley. Oh, it 11 be all right. Only, if yousee the fountain getting too full, speak faster. Barlow. We might announce a race betweenthe heroine and the fountain. It would add. © ^ IT WOULD BE AWKWARD A Dramatic Evening 67 to the interest of the play. This is an ath-letic age. Perkins. I suppose it wouldnt do to turnthe water off in case of danger. Barlow. It could be done, but it wouldntlook well. The audience might think thefountain had had an attack of stage is the entrance from the ballroom to be. Yardsley. It ought to be where the fireplaceis. Thats one reason why I think the por-tieres will look well there. Mrs. Perkins. But I dont see how that canbe. Nobody could come in there. Therewouldnt be room behind for any one to stand,would there } Bradley. I dont know. That fireplace islarge, and only two people have to come inthat way. The rising curtain discloses Gwen-doline just having come in. If Hartley, thevillain, and Jack Pendleton, the manly youngnavy officer, who represents virtue, and dashesin at the right moment to save Gwendoline,could sit close and stand the discomfort of it,they might squeeze in there and await theircues. 68 A Dra
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