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This parent was a very wicked baron, and just as Mlle. Marni in an ecstasy of rage was about to strike him, somebody called out: "Do not hit him; he is your father." We discovered that Mlle. Marni was the wicked baron's illegitimate child.
"Only, if it is of them you require a portrait, you must go to Grégoire Marni. He paints still-life." Rooke came into the room and greeted his visitors with outstretched hands. "My dear Penelope and Ralph," he began cordially. "This is good of busy people like yourselves " He caught sight of the third figure standing a little behind the Fentons and stopped abruptly.
But a bad play one that to the unsophisticated theater-usher or to the manager's scrubwoman must perforce appear as such experiences no such fate. This is one of the marvels of theaterdom. In the case of "Mademoiselle Marni" Miss Bingham herself must have spent an enormous sum that she would probably have hesitated to invest in some enterprise sane or possible.
However, this episode was scarcely offensive, for it was so exuberantly silly that nobody could take it seriously. Later on, Mlle. Marni gambled on the stock exchange, and made two million dollars in a few minutes, so that she could get even with the wicked baron, and force him to recall Raoul. In this act the actress wore black velvet, and looked every inch French Bleecker Street French.
"Mademoiselle Marni" was one of those impossible chromos that might have been designed for the mere purpose of giving one's sense of humor a chance to ventilate itself. In the serious theater-goer and one is bound to consider him it awoke amazement. How is it that at rehearsal a dozen presumably sane people can "pass" such an effort, he must have asked himself?
She likes to appear as the personification of all the virtues, self-sacrificing and otherwise, and this idiosyncrasy is, of course, frequently fatal to sustained interest. We do not care for these sensational paragons. In "Mademoiselle Marni" Miss Bingham played the part of a very beautiful French actress, of whom everybody said: "Oh, what a woman!"
Miss Bingham was assisted by Frederic de Belleville, Frazer Coulter and others less known to fortune and to fame, but "Mademoiselle Marni" was not accepted. It was staged "regardless," but even that fact did not count in its favor. Miss Bingham's pluck and recklessness were alone in evidence. Scarcely more felicitous was Miss Mary Mannering with "Nancy Stair."
There is a sensation of panic in the race. Miss Bingham came to town with a very swollen "comedy-drama," called "Mademoiselle Marni," from the pen of a "monsoor," programmed as Henri Dumay said to be an American "monsoor" at that. This actress affects French plays for reasons that have never been explained, and that certainly do not appear.
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