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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Do you mean," the author asked, "that you or any manager would take it if that were done?" Grayson looked a little unhappy. "No, that isn't what I mean, exactly. I mean that as it stands, no manager would risk it, and that as soon as an actor had read it, he would see, as Godolphin must have seen from the start, that Haxard was a subordinate part.
It's like going back to an effective strain in music." "Yes," Maxwell resumed, "slightly varied. I might have a private dinner this time; perhaps a dinner that Haxard himself is giving.
His rendition of the rôle of Haxard was magnificent in one journal, grand in another, superb in a third, rich, full and satisfying in a fourth, subtle and conscientious in a fifth. Beyond this, the critics ceased to be so much of one mind.
"When Haxard dies, you know," he explained, "it would be tremendously effective to have the woman catch him in her arms, and she would be a splendid piece of color in the picture, with Haxard's head lying in her lap, as the curtain comes down with a run." At this suggestion Mrs.
I've imagined the table set down the depth of the stage, with Haxard and the nominal host at the head, fronting the audience, and the people talking back and forth on each side, and I let the ladies do most of the talking, of course.
"I don't understand that it ends well?" "Unless you consider the implicated marriage of the young people a good ending. Haxard himself, of course, is past all surgery. But the thing isn't pessimistic, as I understand, for its doctrine is that harm comes only from doing wrong." The manager laughed. "Oh, the average public would consider that very pessimistic.
At the close, he spoke of certain weaknesses which the piece had developed in the performance, and casually mentioned that he would revise it at these points as he found the time; it appeared to him that it needed overhauling, particularly in the love episode; there was too much of that, and the interest during an entire act centred so entirely upon Salome that, as he had foreseen, the rôle of Haxard suffered.
"Or," the manager went on without minding Maxwell, "you have got to cut the part of Salome, and subordinate it entirely to Haxard" Maxwell made a movement of impatience and refusal, and the manager finished "or else you have got to treat it frankly as the leading part in the piece, and get it into the hands of some leading actress."
"Do you think that was what gave you bad houses in Chicago the double interest, or the weakened interest in Haxard?" "I think so," said Godolphin. "Were the houses bad comparatively?" Godolphin took a little note-book out of his breast-pocket. "Here are my dates.
He sees that it is a man whom he used to be in partnership with in Texas, where they were engaged in some very shady transactions. They get caught in one of them I haven't decided yet just what sort of transaction it was, and I shall have to look that point up; I'll get some law-student to help me and Haxard, who wasn't Haxard then, pulls out and leaves his partner to suffer the penalty.
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