Stevens Point Daily Journal (Newspaper) - December 23, 1895, Stevens Point, Wisconsin sir Walter Walter Pollock 1803 Paul Lilian Travers Claude Forrester Jane Table with breakfast newspapers playbills over a chair hangs a great poster with red letters etc Lilian discovered with a book While she speaks she walks about the studying the words of the book between the utterances cannot got the words They dance before my eyes I ought to have too And if I do get them tome of them seem such nonsense to me Why oh why did the professor choose such a part as Juliet for my first appearance woodenly Give me my and when he shall die Take him and cut him out in little stars And he shall make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun Now how is a poor girl to say those words The professor is ways telling me that it's the voice of love If it is the voice of love says very odd things Remember dear old daddy con- tells me remember do re- member that you are Juliet and that yon Romeo Well what of that? I love the sor but goodness knows I don't want Oh dear GOOD DADDY to cut him out in little what curious constellations he He ought to be down to his breakfast by now dear old I suppose he was late last night now that he no longer acts himself there is nothing he loves so much as seeing other people act which ib the more rious because he says that nobody can act nowadays I wish he had carried his theory into practice with regard to Juliet and poor me he wouldn't was as as he could bfe His old friend Mr Conyers the manager of the Parnassus wanted a and that Juliet I was to be My dear he said yon have every qualification for the and then he added rather in an Irish ion and those qualifications you have not got my dear I will give you Well if he can make me speak those and not seem a fool he will do wonders Looking at book again No they puzzle me completely pose I look at the paper for a change Looking through paper Last night in Jericho Theater Royal Parnassus Oh dear shall 1 never get away from that? On Wednesday the 10th of June this theater will reopen with a performance of Romeo and Juliet The merits of Mr Godfrey's Romeo are already known and are sure to command at- traction The interest of the occasion will be enhanced by the appearance of a new actress as Miss Lilian Travers is a pupil of Mr who has been her guardian since the death of her parents a years ago We will hear great things of the powers Her master's name alone will insure for her audience Yes 1 if I stumble over my train in the ballroom scene I wish 1 could forget it Let me look at something else The war in the dan Why that is where dear old Claude has gone When was it when he came to say good-bye Lo Four years ago in this very month of in the orchard of my dear father's apple blossoms were out Four years I was very age of had got his commission and his regiment was ing abroad I wonder if he has re- membered wonder Well it is no use thinking or wondering about the old days I have my way to make and my part to learn Let me try if I cannot please daddy this morning Takes book and walks about ing lines to herself a retired actor courtly got up with great wig and and juvenile but evidently an old man etc enters as she recites Good father I beseech you on my knees Hear me with patience but to speak a word Seeing him 1 needn't go on my knees to you 1 to say good morning kissing her No Hard at I sec child We'll have our little rehearsal directly If mjf dear you are equal to the exertion It is but three weeks now to the eventful that is not a bit too JAXE indeed I only wish it was further off of together GITE ROOM AJTD FOOT IT My child my we must not lose courage Remember we have our duties to and to the British public too We must do our best to fulfill them dear and indeed I will do my best though 1 feel my duty to you much more than I do to Art and the British public put together are some who will tell you that the two are not always lied but take an old actor's word for it that the Public is the best critic when done I hope daddy they'll be kind to me What did you do with yourself attended two in the morning assisted at a matinee so called because it was given in the afternoon had my modest little dinner at the club and then of course went on to the new play at the it Yes from some points of view The new school of ors possess purpose ambition fire doea that ominous bnt mean means my dear that they are wanting have not ty fail to that in short they Lilian Not of the old school eh daddy Isn't that about it well my dare say you are right Autre temps autre cannot forget their sors there are a few of the vieille garde left now And if I were put up in Richard the town would flock to see you ly Once perhaps they might Once ago But it's no use dwelling on old memories Lilian half Daddy it's no use must deal with the must welcome genius and talent even if they take a shape new and strange to us And that my child is what I hope from you 1 am to blend the old and the new am I not? To join your ence to my inspiration nods Only in this part at least I don't see where to find the inspiration that will meanwhile let us have breakfast takes poster off the chair and holds it do think of it fair hate it Put it out of my sight Lilian brings in dishes dy I was nearly for- getting What do you think Jane tells A young celled this morning soon after nine and asked to see me and he was told I was en- gaged he said he would come back and it didn't matter about his name young gentleman My dear when you have made success you will have plenty of such impertinent calls from people who dare to call themselves gentlemen and on may as well be prepared for that But Before you have even suppose if it is that dreadful paragraph I have just been reading Gives him Peri gal reads paragraph out with suppose it may be name is not forgotten But this must be pnt a stop to at once Ringing Jane if the young who was here this morning calls again show him to me in my you understand Jane who has entered to sir Exit Jane soon settle er impudence I heard If he gets to my dear it shall be over my prostrate corpse through oceans of gore Don't be alarmed not a bit But who can it I don't know any young men my dear and when the time comes for more such young men to call you will have the bulwark of my experience which has been in such matters peculiar and extensive Well well now look nt the papers What have we here? inee the Palladium What paper's The Daily Intelligence his own play reviewed by Not I nm glad to say in the lish press They Garrick to write about his own performances 1 have never believed Jt Garrick was an An actor could not do such a thing Here's something that may interest you Haven't yon a cousin in the really a cousin only n connection but he was my fellow in my childhood and we always called each other consins god child if he were your cousin you might be proud of dear old What it it my lust letter but one I was unable to you the name of the young who formed the brilliant deed of rescuing si wounded man from a party of five Arab assailants under a heavy fire from the Arab lines 1 now learn that it was Mr Claude Forrester of the life guards It is a marvel that Mr Forrester waa not killed instead of being as 1 believe he is invalided home for the present No doubt in such a matter as this valor will find just recompense old Fancy his doing But of course can we fancy his anything else? fine very fine should like to know him But now child to business Everything is arranged for a rehearsal for you two days hence And I have dered this you don't like It will be stuck up all over London daddy child I don't like it any more than you my days one line in the was by Mr we must move with tho must move with the times And talking of moving lot us sec how we are getting on with our steps for the scene Now then I am You are welcome gentlemen Come musicians A A give room and foot it girls He takes a and goes through a few steps with her She dances cor- but out animation child that will do very nicely And now a moment take a last look at the book and we will go on to the As she sits down and takes up book again con- OLD DADDY Poor child poor FOK THE are we to am dreadfully afraid about her success and it means so much to Why didn't I bring her out In comedy instead of cause she has everything that the part wants except one little want of which I did not A passionless One as well have a benevolent perhaps the new school w ill e us one some day Well we must do what we can Aloud Now Lilian let us to business and remember how much de- pends on the business Fame fortune boundless adulation will be yours if you will only play this part as I want you to will do my very best indeed Daddy I will try all I can to imitate exactly what you show me how to do in the passages that puzzle rne that's Just it my Hng Imitation is not acting Acting must come from a blending of nature and art am very sorry I am so dull daddy are not dull you are cold An actress mnst not be cold Think what it is to be an is to have your name on posters five feet long nothing have your photograph in all the shop windows noticing I'll tell you child what an actress is An actress is a woman who knows all the of the heart and can call them up at will to delight to dazzle to enthrall to terrify the audience on whose inmost feelings she plays as a violinist plays on his strings She is a lovely picture but a picture that is always changing because there is no pause in the tide of human She is a mirror in which her audience sec their own images or the images of what they would like be She inspires men to great deeds she holds them back from what is mean and vile She makes weep and laugh ot will ehc is greater than the greatest because while others may command men's actions she alone can sway their inmost thoughts and emotions responsive to every tone of her voice And do not believe them child when they tell that the er's career is but a brilliant bubble forgotten as soon as its time is done No child the player's memory is imperishable it is pre- served in material oere more lasting than any it is written in the human heart And that Lilian is what it is to be an actress dy it frightens me shall never be able to do all N sense child yon have it all in you I know The is to get at it and that is what I have got to do if T can Now let us take Act II Scene V This chair is XO TOU ARE the am RIFTED remember what the otion is Juliet is in more is loved and she cannot bear to be parted from her must be passion in every breath Now try Wilt thou be gone thou be gone? It is not yet near Jt was the nightingale and not the lark That pierced the fearful hollow of thine car Nightly she sings in the pomegranate Believe me love it was the starting with That'll never do It's at all like it Juliet is in Shall 1 understand what that Try again see if you not get ii little tremor of into your Lilian repeats first two lines again jumps worse and worse There's no love in a wobbling Lilian eits down in wish there no thing us tho love you talk so much about in the world forgive me for being impatient After all how should you know what the of love daddy It's only too that 1 don't llow am 1 to llow can you be Love my dear is ex- words just because words are too poor to express spendthrift of base coinage What can 1 tel 1 you of love Love a woman inlo a I remember 30 or by r lady 35 years ago when love a woman into a goddess for me the transportation has its ready reason Who care for a mere when he can worship a What a time it one was young for the tion of That is the yOnng who still feel It can explain it Tuere must be plenty of young lows who would bo glad to the mystery to you If one could but find one of the right If a ly chance would but drop one from the old I You are crying for the and Forrester's voices heard outside Forrester's voico you are quite obey of the but there are is gal will forgive is all Jane opening please sir the young would come in running to shall come through my body then My sword the Claude entering forgive this sir I am sure you will when Lilian seeing You dear old Daddy it's I gathered from your first remark May I ask sir I am Forrester I rather Travers cousin and I am only just bock from foreign service I ered from a paragraph In a newspaper that Travers was your ward and pupil So I ventured to come here of course you course he did Aside while L and C talk Of course he did Now let us see What If this should be the answer to my The young fellow dropped from the clouds A no very thing He looks ae if he wouldn't moke a bad Romeo The nation Is desperate suppose I put it to the Aloud Mr Forrester I am delighted I arn proud to make acquaintance I told Lily just now I like to it 1 have heard of your exploit It made me of yon and proud of my country sir that was nothing I just did my Then I wish people as a rule did their duty as well But modesty is a virtue and not too common a one Aside I like his looks more and more I will it- I can see her eyes now just as some other eyes softened Well gone Aloud She starts and We not neglect our little rehearsal too I have no doubt you and your cousin have much to say to each yes well I will give some directions about the printing and re- join yon shortly Mr Forrester let me once again shake by the hand Does so sir yon make too of it no I don't I know to make much of Trust for that At door aside An experiment But I'll it will succeed and then so will lay Exit Is it possible that four years should make snch a difference knew me directly course I did Bnt four years ago you were a little fairy of a child And now what are you Lily what I was then you arc have grown into a woman and a flatter Claude You never to is no flattery no nonsense Were you badly wounded In that splendid Lily not the doctors let roe stay there and certainly the voyage has made a new man of me To be so and to BO much for I know you did I can see the traces of it etill But you arc well Lily better than I have ever been before But ine you know Mr one of my father's oldest friends is my and Poor papa could leave me little money and Mr is not rich So I had to decide on making my own some how and Mr is teaching me to net actl you must have known J touch at last I always the girl And Holds it Do you re- l GIVE YOU TUB POSTEK that from the but it- still BO strange I My little cousin turning into a great actress Claude I don't think I shall over be that I know I have some turn for it I clou't like the idea The notion of that sea of faces looking at ino one's every word one's every posture one's face one's voice becoming public it frightens me and hurts I don't like to tell daddy to Look at this horrid poster up little member when we remember apple blossoms were out be- neath the great tree in the orchard Your hair was ing in the breeze Tour eyes were soft were always the softest est eyes in t h o world I kissed you good-bye and you promised you would Lily have you kept that Lilian Yea Claude I have I ber what I don't know Claude must remember I vowed that I should think of you ever and aye whatever befell me vowed that I would come back to you as soon as fate would let me and when I camo back I should ask you If you cared for me still I had forgotten me bring it back to your memory now Lily since then I have In many strange places of the world seen many strange and beautiful uid dreadful many a time it close touch with death m all hat time not a day has passed that L have not thought of you thought of our parting looked forward to our meeting See hero are graph and the lock of hair you gave me Every day in all that time have kissed them both Lily by the memory of the hours that been solaced by thought of you by the memory of child I loved who has blossomed into a woman whom 1 with a er deeper love tell me what love me as I love yon Wo cannot do tEat For to me this love is as a sudden brightness that lights xip all the past and may make the future all splendor For four years I have dreamed of this meeting only now do I know how much it soems to me how much depends your answer Do you irie Lily? see It all now soe then that I love you that there is no other woman in the world for me but you arc my you see that? Kneels and kisses her hand tiling clearly dy has reproached me often In his Bons with having no heart I have Do not shrink from me It is I have given it all to given it all to you long ago and never knew it till now CJ an d d arl my I believe I could act Juliet now there any need Takes u p poster 61 al 11 tear i t n p no Fold it xip Don't liis feelings too much you will not act act what has come to me a no no Claude I I haU to do it Daddy has told me what an actress is a great and a pood woman if she uses her divine gift rightly But an actress must be ready to assume to others what she feels only for one And I could not do it darling do not do it You will not mind sharing a life Lily? not mind sharing any life with yon But I must think of poor Daddy he will be so disappointed at loBing his pet pupil How can I wof ten the blow to him I have an idea Soldier officers are ex- to have ideas in these days of examinations Didn't say just now that you felt if you understood Juliet at Claude I did here comes Mr my notion Enter people you have had your talk and I hope it has been a ant one pleasant thank you tar talk is talk and is business and we must get to business again Aside The ment has the girl looks transformed Aloud Don't go Mr Forrester yon may help us with your advice aside Travers was telling me sir that she felt very nervous about the have ventured to give nome think you will find she is less nervous now just as I hoped just as I Now Lilian we will lake if you please the speech that puzzled yon so Give me my Lilian looking at Give me my Romeo and when he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun true was an Mr Forrester 1 greatly obliged to you Lilian triumph your appearance will bo on the triumph can never must find Another There are plenty of them Lilian You see daddy Claudo taught me Ami now that I have learnt it I have learnt something else that? What's that? return you the poster sir It will not be wanted Lilian takes Claude's hand I've spoiled it She is a wakened She knows the voice of love P and she is lost Sinks into a chair and buries his face in his CURTAIN RATTLED HENRY CLAY Forgot of His But Supplied ft with Apt In the early 20s of this century Mr Clay was appointed by the legislature of Kentucky a commissioner to ginia to ask of that state that a sion be appointed to make a line of demarcation between the twq states Upon his arrival in Richmond lie was received with great courtesy by its distinguished citizens IIo said that his profession politics and fairs of the government hAd occupied his time so exclusively that he was aware of knowing little of polite ature or the favorite publications of the day This prompted him to ask an old friend whom he knew to be a literarw may to select some lines to introduce when addressing the legislature ns a quotation expressive of his feelings to the state of Virginia as his birthplace His friend suggested a stanza Scott's Lay of the Last which he highly approved and The day appointed for his address found the galleries halls and available space crowded with eager ex- auditors and many beautiful women in bright gave brilliancy the scene lie held the attention ot his audience witn entire until he came to the part where he meant to introduce the quotation Then hia memory failed him The shock was palling for a moment Tic stood rigid and pale before a thousand watchful eyes his mind only a blank before liim a sea of upturned With a characteristic gesture he threw xip his to his and in his most tones he recited the lowing Breathes there a man so dead never to himself hath said This la my own my native j concluding his speech amid deafening applause I Everyone present had supposed that he WHS overcome by emotion and none but the friend who had selected the quotation for him perceived the cause of his momentary rnal HYGIENIC HOUSEKEEPING Hints for the Who Wishes to Keep Well J The woman who loves her family will not content herself with nursing them when they have colds will see that her household arrangements are Buch that cannot easily gain a hold She will if she must choose be- tween a new piano and improved choose the plumbing always She will not use any more than possible She will have few carpets and all the sunlight and air she can command The plumbing must be kept in perfect order The most improved sort ot plumbing is not too good and not too expensive When it is possible it is de- sirable to have bathroom of ble and the walls tiled The tub should the fixtures of In such a room as this it is an energetic germ that can find a lodging place But even if Tiles and marble arc out of the question the arrangement the pipes be to the sanitary code have been teaching and for years against woolen pets and hangings but it is not until after they have been scourged by con- disease and forced to burn their belongings that most people realize tho danger that lurks in such things One experience however usually teaches a woman the value of bare ished floors easily removed rugs and hangings and furniture which does not depend for its beauty upon heavy Times and of Pith j The political effects of Austerlitz were the devastation of the old tem was driven apparently forever from leadership in and consigned to the difficult and thorny of aggrandizement down the Danube valley which she has ever since trodden There was only a ence of degree between the of and that of Prussia between the humiliation of Baden and that of Russia Pitt was in recovering from an attack of grew old within 24 hours after receipt of the news his became pinched and blue taking on an sion long known as the Austerlitz look Returning to his villa at with the hand of death him he is said to have entered through a corridor on the wall of which a map of Europe Roll xip that he ly to his niece it will not be needed these ten years He died soon afterward on January 23 in his year and the last words he was heard to utter My how I leave ray He had hoped and as the proved not in vain that as England had saved herself by her own exertions so she Europe by her example To his try succeeded that known by tha sobriquet of All the in which was first lord of the treasury and Pitt's great rival Fox tary of W in
