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THE OSAAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13,1929 ~ WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE Tom Bilbeck is the narrator. 'He is a fat newspaper writer "who drives a tumble-down car 'he calls Grandmother Page. He ig in love with Maryella, his rival being Jim Cooper. The three are mempers of an amateur dramatic group. 'Plans for a play at the Old Soldiers' Home are under way. Grandmother Page has engine © trouble while Marybélla is out driving with Bilbeck and Cooper, pasing in a big road- ster, taunts him. After Mary- ella has left Bilbeck is able to start his car again. Now go on with the story. CHAPTER IT Rehearsal Our version of "Pygmalion and Galatea" would doupless surprise you it yau are at all familar with the original, in which Pygmalion Is the artist and carves the lady in the sketeh out of a block of mar- ble. 'We started out to rehearse it that way, but ran into difficulties when the matter of costumes came up for discussion. It seemed ad- visable that the statue should wear white tights and white grease- paint on the face In order to carry out the illusion. All the ladies of the club were quite content that it should be so, but when it came to assigning the parts each and every one refused to be Galat- For a time it looked as if we would have to fall back on some sketch of Shakespeare's until Maryella made the practical sugges tion that we change the story. Her idea was to make Galatea a scultp- torine who hammers a hunk of stone into a beuatiful male statue by the mame of Pygmalion. Can you imagine an anti-reminist thinking up a thought like that? Maryella's suggestion carried. 'As the literary man of the organiz- ation, I was appointed to doctor up the manuscript to fit the change of 'characters. Later, much to my surprise and in spite of my protests, the stellar role of Pygmalion was forced upon me. To-night was to be the dress re- heareal and on the following even- ing we were scheduled to give a trial performance in the barn at the 014 Soldiers' Home. The trial per- formance was for the double pur- pose of getting easy in our parts and of making the old soldiers realize that war is not so terrible after all, A 'When I returned to my bachelor yooms in town I had only time to change to some dry clothing and hurry over to the rehearsal with- out getting anything to eat. Food 4id nob appeal to me anyway. 'Neither did anything else least of all rehearsing a lot of fool love- talk. My own romance had suffer- 78 such a disheartening set-pacx at 1 was in no mood to enact the role of a hand-hammered Romeo of mythology. But. I went just the same. You know how hard it is to step out of the routine business of your life fust because some disaster has be- tallen you. Your perceptions be- come numbed and you wonder vag- uely why the sun is shining, but you go on doing the things that are expected of you just as you hae always done, "Business as usual" is not the motto of an exceptional nation. It Is the underlying principle of the progress of the human race. The Sherdan Dramatic Club had borrowed for rehearsals the stage of the local opera-house, which was vacant that week. It was there that I wended my disconsolate Way. I was late, but it didn't make much difference as all during the first act the statue of Pygmalion was a papiermache figure. Bet- ween the acts I was supposed to take the place of the statue In the same pose so that a little later I ocould come to life in response to Galatea's wish. 'When I came in they were re- hearsing with the dummy. Every- thing appeared to be going very well. Maryella looked absolutely ravishing in the Greek drapery, and Jim Cooper was doing the best he eould to impersonate a skinny Greek warrior. He was even thinner than I had suspected. As a Highlander he would never be a conspicuous suc- cess. Any one could tell that at a glance. The part of a young sculptor's apprentice was taken by Mrs. Hem- mingway, a dazzling blond who was worth going to behold in a short Greek tunic and sandals. She wouldn't have fooled any one but a blind man into thing she was a bay, but nobody minded that. She had talents enough to get into a Ziegfeld chorus any day. There were a dozen other parts played with intent to kill in the good old amateur way. I discov- eredformer male friends hidden be- hind bushy heards that dropped off occasionally at § critical moment, * Jeaving the actor bald-faced and ' speechless; and ladies I used to know disguised as Hellenic maidens by doing their haif into a Psyche knot and trimming their best nigh- ties with a Greek key-design and an occasional swastika. Off stage, doing a piece of em- pbroidery while she waited for her cue, wag Mrs. George P. Lillielove, :' the wife of the most popular und- ' ertaker in town. In Greek robes Mrs.. Lillielove looked almost ex- actly like a haystack with a tar- paulin over it. #g $slipped: into my. dressing-room unobserved, My costume hats J ; was there. I had mot seen it before, so I was a trifle surprised at the bulk of it. The whole thing could have been put in the pocket of a dress waist- coat without spoiling the shape of it any. It was silk apd white, but it seemed awfully thin, I played safe by wearing my underwear beneath it. There was no full-length mirror in my room, so I could not get the entire effect, but it looked all right as far as I could see. It was easy to make up my face all white and put on a white wig which was provided for me. I slipped on my ovércoat over the costume to step up on the stage, The curtain was down between the acts. I took my place on the pedestal, slightly nervous but de- termined to get through somehow it the seams of the tights did their part. The stage was dimly illum- ined with blue moonlight. Just before the curtain rose I dropped the overcoat behind me. I stood motionless during the introductory music. There was a flutter of surprise among the mem- berg of the club who were not on the stage at that moment and had stepped out into the auditorium to steal a look from the other side of the footlights. It must have been beautiful. I know I was conscious of looking well in that pose and lighting. I flexed my muscles to make them stand out better. to the audience all the time," sug- gested Jim Cooper, who with his nose-giasses on and a cigarette .in/ his mouth was the beau ideal Greek warrior, "I know what to do." Mrs, Hemmingway came to the rescue with a practical suggestion,' "You can buy a pair of those, things that chorus girls wear some- times--symmetricals, I think they. are called." i "Oh!" sald several of the ladies at once, loking pointedly at Mrs, | Hemmingway's shapely substruc- ture.. "No, I don't wear them myself," she assuerd them in response to the unspoken question, "but I've heard! that there are such things." 1 "All right" said the coach. Go on with a dialogue." y hTe balance of the act was plow- ed through somehow. I had to play several love-scenes with Mary- ella, but I was so acutely conscious of her criticism that I did them very badly. | The only scene that I played with any enthusiasm was one in which I was supposed to wrestle with Jim Cooper in the role of the Greek warrior. Even that turned out ill for me because it made hig head ache where I bumped it on the stage, and Maryella hovered over him like a hen with chickens all during the intermission while they, were setting the stage for the third of a act, | ~ Galatea entered. She was dres- sed in a gold-trimmed robe. On her neck was a single strand of beautiful. pearls. I recognized them as Mrs, Hemmingway's. Maryella had borrowed them be- cause their owner couldn't wear them for the performance, as she was playing the part of a poy. Galatea's eyeg were on the floor, pensive. She came slowly to to pedestal on which I stood. She knelt. She looked up. She held her pose for a long time without saying a word--with- out expressing even a whispered wish that I would come to life. Marvella was worldless. "What's the trouble?" inquired the coach, who stood, book in hand, just over the footlights, "Miss Waite, your line is, "My dearest wish--'"" = "No," she stopped him fently. "I know my lines. statue." Esr tone was full of vexation, "What's the matter?" I lnquir- ed, without abandoning my attl- tude, "This is the same pose I've been taking every night at rehear- sal ever since we began." "It isn't that. You are bow- legged." She spoke accusingly, as if I had made a blunder of some sort on purpose. "Oh!" That was a sensitive subject with me "I didnt' know there was any- thing criminal in being slightly curved. It really comes from strength. Lots of men are." "But no one ever saw a bow- legged statue before," she argued petulantly. "I don't care person- ally. I suppose that lots of really estimable men have personal pecul- farities; but can you imagine a sculptor creating a statue inten- tionally bow-legged? Why didn't you tell me?" she wailed "Why didn't you tell me?" "Well," I temporized, "I didn't think I knew you well enough for that." "The play is ruined," she de- clared. "Not at all," I said with as much injured dignity as I could command in white tights. "You can easily get some one else to play thig part. It you look around the club you can doubtless find someone with legs like bean-poles. She knew whom I meant without my explaining more particularly. "Come people," interrupted the coach pleasantly. "We musin't waste time. Remember there is a Jot to do before we leave here this evening." "Don't be silly," she replied. "No one else could learn the part in time." impat- It's the = Why not try standing sidways e bear mot to accept her: tribute iv | I got tired of listening to her sympathizing with him and went out in the auditorium by myself. I did not care to talk to any one, To criticize. my acting was one thing, but to make personal remarks about the shape of my legs was go- ing too far. I made up my mind to withdraw from the Sheridan Dramatic Club as soon as the performance of "Pygmalion and Galatea' was over. { I would not leave them in the lurch | now as I might do and wreck the entire performance; but as soon as it would not be conspicuous 1| world assert my dignity and resign' on the ground that it took too much: of my time. I admired Maryella, but she could hardly expect me to stand for being made fun of before Jim Cooper. ~ "I think it is an awfully funny, play; don't you?" inquired a voice behind me. I looked around. In the aiste stood Mrs. Hemmingway, a plump sylph in the half-light of the au-| ditorilum, She apparently wanted to sit down, so I made room for her, beside me. I "You think it is quite funny?" 1 repeated interrogatively, "Yes, I'didn't realize it so much J until I saw the costumes. I didn! know you were going to be a: clown." { She pointed to my white face. I suppose she would have laugh-| ed herself sick at the Venus 'de Milo. Mrs. Hemmingway Is a movie fan, and her sense of humor must have been curdled by this comic-fall stuff. Here I was gotten up to represent a beautiful work of the sculptor's art, and she had missed (| the idea entirely and thought I was meant to be funny!' "The best scene," she went on, innocently endeavoring to flatter me, "is where you tell Maryella you love her there in the garden. It was better than Charlie Chap- lin." : Ang that scene wag pure poetry! I wrote it myself, so I am sure of it, : "Thank you very much for your appreciation," I said, wishing that she were a man so that I could say what T really thought. "You've no idea idea How your praise make me feel." "I'm 'glad. I thought you were gort of blue here all by yourself, go I decided to cheer you up. Then she added hastily for fear she had ruined the effect of her se! ~ moe really meant what I said though about your being funny. The dear little featherhead was trying to make me feel good! She was prompted by the instinct which makes one woman try to heal the hurts inficted by andther, I wae the spirit in which it was offered. b| "Thanks ever so much," I assur- ed her, and reaching over careless. 1y I patted her hand, which lay idly on her knee. As I did so a strong hand came down on my shoulder end, heavy man though I am, I was hoisted. baily from my seat to the aisle. "I caught yau, didn't I?" hissed: an angry voice, ' "I've suspected! there was some man in the case to: make my wife so crazy about act ing all of a sudden." 'vo (Continued Tomorrow), HARMONY RESIDENT SPRAINS HIS LEG R. Gimblett Sustains Painful Injuries on Tuesday Last -- Harmony, Aug. 10--R. Gimblett had the misfortune of spraining his right leg very badly on Tuesday. He was standing with his foot on the bumperette at the back of a car when his foot slipped off and went down between the car and bumper- ctte throwing him backwards. He saved hoi from going quite to the ground by putting out his hands He was very fortunate not to break his leg. Misses Hazel and Mildred De Guerre of the city spent Wednes- day with Beatrice Willson. Mr. and Mrs. H. Hunking and family attended the Marlowe fam- ily reunion held at Hampton on Wed- nesday. About two hundred were present and a good programme of sports was carried on and an en- joyable time spent by all. Mr, and Mrs. Cramm of the cit will occupy W. Frayling's house af- ter Sept. 1. Mrs. N, Noble and Mrs, J. Mercer of the city were recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Terwillegar, Mr. and Mrs, J. Clarke attended the swim at Campbellford on Friday. Sam Reynolds of Windsor called on Mr. and Mrs. W. Logue recently as he was on his way to Bowman- ville. Mr. and Mrs. N. Wagar and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wagar are spend- ing this week camping at Tamworth. Mrs, M. Mackie at Port Perry on Civic holiday attending the races and street parade. Mr. and Mrs. L. Edwards spent the week end and holiday with re- iatives at Colborne. Miss Dorothy Hogarth spent last week in Toronto with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Wiese spent the week end at Orillia with friends. Mrs. B. W. Haynes of Hamilton is visiting Mr, and Mrs. B Haynes. Mr. and Mrs, Kellett of Pontypool visited on Thursday with Mr, and Mrs. Roy Kellett. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hinton and family of Weston are visiting this I week end with' Mr, and Mrs, R. Hin- fon, Mr. and Mrs. R. O'Neil and Miss Dorothy O'Neill of Port Perry vis- ited Mr, and' Mts. Thos. Oke on Sunday. Miss Gall of New Toronto is vis- iting with Mr, and Mrs, L. Hogarth, r, and Mrs, A. Connel and fam- ily of Windsor spent the week end with" Mr, and Mrs. W. Frayling, Mr, and Mrs. Wilton Taylor pent Friday in Picton attending the fun- seral of Mrs, Taylor's mother Mrs. elson. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson spent Mon- day with relatives at Sunderland. r. and Mrs. H. Dafoe and fam- ily spent the week end at Hamilton and Niagara Falls, Mr. and Mrs, A. Hollman and family spent Sunday with relatives) at Taunton. i Mrs, Neilson MacBain of Valcar- tier, Quebec, is visiting her mother, Mrs, G. Greentree. Mrs. J. Bates has returned home after spending the past week with hor, mother, Mrs, Barber at Fenelon alls. Mr. and Mrs. N. Kennedy and Mrs. Elija Kennedy of Toronto visited on Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. R. Hin- ton, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hicks, R. Hicks, Mr. and Mrs, Chas. Sapher spent Monday at Caesarea and Hayden. Mrs. Eunice Chipps spent the past week with 'relatives in Bowmanville. Mr, and Mrs. N. Hind spent the week end with relatives at Colborne. R. Moffatt and Malcolm Moffatt spent the week end at Algonquin ark, Miss Gladys Oke spent the holi- day with friends at Port Perry and attended the street parade and races. Mr. and Mrs. E. Snyder of Toron- to visited Mr. and Mrs. R. Hinton. on Sunday. Mrs. J. Greentree spent the week end in St. Catharines with Mr, and Mrs. Thos. Greentree. Phillys Campbell of Taunton has been spanding the past week with Irene Hollman, Mr. and Mrs. L. Mutton and May Mutton of Colborne were recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs, W, Pet- erson, Miss Viola McGill and : Harry Scott of St, Catharines spent the past week with Mr, and Mrs. H. Willson. Mr. and Mrs. W. Frayling and family are moving to Hespeler where Mr. Frayling has already started working. Mr, and Mrs. J. Dyer and Cletys Dyer spent the week end with rela- tives at Picton. Mr, and Mrs. W. Young and Mes- srs. Melville and Louie Young of Toronto visited with Mr, and Mrs. R. Luke on Sunday. Miss Edna Cockburn of Colborne is visiting her sister, Mrs. N. Hind. Mr. Everett Peterson has been spending the past week camping at Huntsville. Mr. and Mrs. L. Hogarth, Miss Dorothy Hogarth and Mrs. A. Lott spent the week end and holiday with friends at the Iroquois six nations Indian reserve near Oswegan on Lake Erie. They visited several In- tal at Oswegan which is maintained by. the government, A .doctor nurses are in steady attendance for the Indians, Several patients were there at the time, Mr. and Mrs, Hogarth found it very interesting to visi ' 'Miss Bell and Miss Morrison of Belleville were recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs, W, Logue. ALMONDS PERSONALS Almonds, Aug. 10.--~John How- land and Fred Lee spent Sunday in Toronto. a James Knight, of Brooklin, spent the week at the home of W, H. Balsdon. , Mr, and Mrs. Dickie and family, of Toronto, have returned to To- ronto after spending several weeks camping at Lowe's Beach, near their former place of residence. Mr. and Mrs. Challis and family, of Orono, Mr. and Mrs. Challis and Miss Mabel Challis, of Bowman- ville, Mr, and Mrs. Hockaday, Sam and Misses Lizzy and Rilda, So- lina, gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Osborne and held a picnic on Monday, when a very pleasant time was spent together. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wood and family motored to Port Hope on Sunday and spent the day with rel- atives. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Osborne were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Pas- coe, of Oshawa, on Sunday. Miss Mildred Brown has return- ed to her home here after spending a couple of weeks' vacation with her aunt, of Holland Landing. Misses Violet and Evelyn Hal are holidaying at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Brumell, of Brooklin. Mr. and Mrs. Gould and Mr. and Mrs. Hay, of Toronto, were holiday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. W. Hall. Mrs. M. Mackey and Miss Mabel Mackey, of Toronto, are spending 2 week with relatives in Greenbank. The young ladies' class held its annual picnic on Wednesday of last week, when an enjoyable time was spent. Supper was served. Mr. and Mrs. Reeson, of Toron- to, and Mr. and Mrs. George Ree- son and family, of Oshawa, and Mrs. W. Reeson visited on Wednes- day at the home of W. H. Balsdon. NO LOOSE TALKER Two farmers met in town a few days after a cyclone hit the country- side. "Yes, it did quite a bit of damage out our way," said one reflectively. "By the way, Hank, was that new barn of yours injured any?" The other shifted his wad of chew- ing tobacco. "I can't say rightly," he answered y H slowly. "I ain't found it yet."--The Outlook. A BARE SUGGESTION 2 Flapper: And next week I'm off to Paris to. get my clothes. Grandmother: Yes, yes, I wondered dian families and visited the hospi- where you had left them.--Tit-Bits. = BROUGHAN MANS INJURED IN" FALL FROM HIGH BRIDGE Brougham, Aug. curred on Aug. 3, when Mr. Smitte, of the Brock road, working on the Palmer bridge on the 2nd conces- sion, fell a distance of nearly twen- ty feet, alighting in the water. Al- though badly shaken up and one leg hurt, he was able to walk from the water, and it is hoped no serious results will follow. There is no unemployment here. Bridges, roads, and harvest help have utilized every available man. Jack Gerrow is sporting a new car, Robert Greig having purchased his old one. A number of our young ladies are learning to drive these days. Our pastor will occupy his home pulpit on Sunday. The Cecil Bate family, of Port Hope, were visitors at the home of Miss Bate on Sunday. Miss Vida, who has been holidaying with her aunt, returned home with her par- ents. Miss Margaret Brown and Mas- ter Jack, of Toronto, are vacation visitors with their grandparents. The Crocker family, of Toronto, spent the week-end with the Mat- thew family, A. Rowney and the Misses Row- ney, of Toronto, were visitors with T. C. and Mrs. Brown, on Tues- day. Byron Feasby, of Oshawa, Rob- ert and Margaret, of Toronto, spent the week-end at their home here. The No. 7 highway is in excel- lent condition now, which is evi- denced by the heavy traffic through the village. MYRTLE PERSONALS + Mrs. Dave Leury has been holi- daying in Port Hope. Harry Spaulding of Toronto vis- ited friends here over the holiday. Mrs, Vale of London visited a for- mer school mate, Mrs. William Hoar, last week. Mrs. E. T. Slemon of Ottawa is spending a couple of weeks vacation with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. oar. Mrs. John C., Lawrence and son, Mr. Andrew M. Lawrence Phonts, have been spending a few days with the former's son, Dr. George Law- rence of Lindsay, Messrs. Will J. Cook and Ivan Rodd are showing their horses at Sutton Fair this week, and it is hoped they may return with a good- have proved a serious accident 0C-| gs J. B. MACKAY, General Agent; Canadian Pacific Bldg., Toronto. Canadian Pacific Steamships *Carry Canadian Pacific Express Travellers" Cheques . . , Good the World Over" ly share. of red ribbons from the various classes. Mr, and Mrs. Charlie Pilkey are on a motor trip to Quebec, Miss Myrtle Hoar is spending a gougle of weeks with Mrs. E. E. Mo- or. Indignant Householder: You've pa- pered the study with the bathrétw) paper and the bathroom with ds study paper. What do you propose to do about it? Paperhanger: Dunno, sir. 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