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Updated: June 29, 2025
The performances went with a bang, and when, at the conclusion of the playlet, I lifted Judy to the rickety shelf, so that her head and shoulders were framed in the mouth of the booth, it was the signal for a burst of applause. On one of these occasions: "It's not fair that I should take every call," she said, looking down at my upturned face. "My dear Judy, I have my reward." "What?"
"In the pretty language of the playbill," the contributor went on, "this piece was called 'A Pastoral Playlet, and I should have been willing to see 'Mandy Hawkins' over again, instead of the 'Seals and Sea Lions, next placarded at the sides of the curtain immediately lifted on them.
We are tired of the elaborately costumed person whose charms are trivial and insignificant, we are well tired also of the ordinary gentleman dancer and of the songwriter, we are bored to extinction by the perfectly dull type of playlet which features some well known legitimate star for illegitimate reasons.
His loneliness had forced him to revise that dream by the addition of Martha Bagley; he needed a companion, contemporary, and foil. His mental playlet no longer closed with James Holden standing alone before the Bench. Now it ended with Martha saying proudly, "James, I knew you could do it." Martha Bagley's brilliance would not conflict with his. He could stay ahead of her forever.
Kathleen West had written a clever little playlet "In the Days of Shakespeare," and Hilda Moore, who could do all sorts of queer folk dances, was to busy her light feet in a series of quick change costume dances, while Amy Devery was to give an imitation of a funny motion-picture comedian who had made the whole country laugh at his antics.
The lamplight on the delicately green walls was like that of a regular author's den, he was quite sure. Suddenly he roared at himself, "Get on the job there, will yuh?" A ONE ACT DRAMATIC PLAYLET by John Warrington, a railway president; quite rich. Nelty Warrington, Mr. Warrington's daughter. Reginald Thorne, his secretary. He was jubilant.
In those days I belonged to a Press-cutting Agency, and I discovered that to measure Fame by the square inch you may get many more yards of reputation by the most flippant playlet than by your literary magnum opus; to say nothing of the pictures and interviews of your actors and actresses.
On the strength of several opposing yeas, the playlet was booked, and removed after the second performance a little secret feather which Lilly wore jauntily on a little secret cap. In these eight weeks a quiescence that was like a hand to the reverberating parchment of a drum had come over her.
The singers were bell-voiced; the dancers graceful as clouds, and just touched with a beguiling naughtiness; and in the playlet there was a chill intensity that made her shudder when the husband accused the wife whom he suspected, oh, so absurdly, as Una indignantly assured herself.
He bought a dollar fountain-pen, which had large gold-like bands and a rather scratchy pen-point, and a box of fairly large sheets of paper. Pressing his literary impedimenta tenderly under his arm, he attended four moving-picture and vaudeville theaters. By eleven he had seen three more one-act plays and a dramatic playlet. He slipped by the parlor door at Mrs. Arty's. His room was quiet.
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