. Betty Wales, junior; a story for girls . ir quarters. In one a Japanesesoothsayer told fortunes in delicious brokenEnglish. In another a worker of magic madeflowers grow, and produced strange sleight-of-hand effects with swords, coins and little pa-per balloons. But decidedly the star per-formance of the afternoon was the third side-show, a Japanese one-act play. This wasMadelines idea. The rest of the stuntcommittee had been very doubtful about thewisdom of attempting it, and they wereamazed and delighted when it proved to bethe success of the afternoon. To begin with,Madeline had aroused t
. Betty Wales, junior; a story for girls . ir quarters. In one a Japanesesoothsayer told fortunes in delicious brokenEnglish. In another a worker of magic madeflowers grow, and produced strange sleight-of-hand effects with swords, coins and little pa-per balloons. But decidedly the star per-formance of the afternoon was the third side-show, a Japanese one-act play. This wasMadelines idea. The rest of the stuntcommittee had been very doubtful about thewisdom of attempting it, and they wereamazed and delighted when it proved to bethe success of the afternoon. To begin with,Madeline had aroused their doubts by beingso mysterious about the play. When Babeasked where she got it and what it was about,she answered that she had it, and that itwas like a good many other plays,—aboutnothing in particular. She was definite, how-ever, about one thing. There w^ere two char-acters, and she would play one and Robertathe other. When Roberta flatly refused totake part, Madeline reminded her that shehad not yet paid up for the loan of Georgia. IT CERTAIXLV WAS NOT ENGLISH TUB NSW yoiXK AS-r^H. L-»NOX AND JUNIOR 115 Ames, and calmly appointed an hour for thefirst rehearsal. ^ But we havent looked at our parts,Roberta protested. Theres no time to learnthem either. You must give up the play,Madeline ; its impossible to have it on suchshort notice. Come over this afternoon, and if you cantlearn your part perfectly in ten minutes wellgive it up, Madeline promised, and the com-mittee, knowing that Roberta learned slowly,supposed that would be the end of the after the first rehearsal Roberta was asenthusiastic as Madeline, and the rest of thecommittee, sure that their combined tastesmight be trusted, neither interfered nor askedtroublesome questions. The first audience of the afternoon was sur-prised and somewhat bewildered to find thatthe play was not only Japanese in setting,but was also written in Japanese. At least itcertainly was not English that the two actorswere speaki
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