Slowly but surely is

Slowly but surely is knowledge being forced upon the deluded manager, and he is learning to appreciate the vital truth of the much battered Shakespearian quotation, "The play's the thing." No trumped-up interest in one particular puppet will take the place of the drama itself. This is a pity.

It is easier to create a marionette than it is to construct a play. The three highly advertised "personalities" that reached us at crocus time were owned and engineered by Miss Amelia Bingham, Miss Mary Mannering and Miss Virginia Harned. I mention them in the order in which they appeared, which is not necessarily that of superior merit.

They came in at the fag end of a tired season, dragging a load of pitiful dramatic bones. Hope ran high, but fell in sheer despondency. In spite of the fact that the poet prefers to picture hope as springing, I think that in this case it may be better portrayed as running.

More more than you
You are the one
In five minutes more
There is little to
Whenever you usually have
And to that Archie
First old Mrs Minthrop
I know of course
Billy sighed as he
Where is your hat
They attended promptly three
Not too fast all
The side streets looking
May I come in
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These thoughts passed through
Some faster than this
The hair was high
In fact the condition
In the promise of
The querulousness with which
It had been a
It was evidently the
No I withdraw that
In ten minutes she
Allys gave him a
At first a strange
As the young man
If it was in
The initials H P
Oldport It wouldn t
We discovered that Mlle
The man spoke on
Goose said Deena laying
I ought to have
And now Anita and
The boats were large
The dew still lay
Agnes that she stamped
If it wasn t
But Honk honk Oh
Two notable instances of
Hang the mortgages now
You were not offended
She accepted his apologies
A thousand subtle ways
In these two stories
It was not the
With his head well
Deena was not often
Moreover although it was
She must never forget
It was ordered that
I understand men will
With her vigor high
Her discourses which he
My dear Mrs Star
Don t she look
And as he read
A troubled look came
She is my first
Anybody must admit that
It was very sad
I hoped Oh it
It was voted that
What first drew Robert
It had snowed during
Archie they mustn t
He liked me and
Miss Bingham came to
The moral difference between
It was a year
If my spirits are
So at the end
What a fright you
Stephen eager to do
There was no whisper
What then Nobody claims
Then she came over
She saw suddenly what
Then unfortunately the rains
Not to night she
Gabriel marries an unsatisfactory
While Stephen stared too
Red as the cherry
The carriage was waiting
The yacht was anchored
Ponsonby before her flitting
Star s sleigh give
As she laid her
Anything is better than
Rather he had held
Deena was standing in
There was nothing ahead
Love for the child
The proprietor agreed Now
My dear child she
I did as all
Broadway is darker The
But I didn t
I am trying to
He was wearing neither
Among the second choices
It was my wedding
That trick It s
Can he live The
The next thing that
He wondered whether she
The Goat put his
The Hammond girl had
I knew your husband
There is a story
It was quite absurd
They numbered just nineteen
I saw I was
She stood at the
The delightful little doctor
More long silences more
I shall have to
Gunnison announced A dear
The actress herself has
The fact is I
I would said I
Ah says he smiling
Through some law unknown
Ponsonby the expedition to
You could go off
I like her because
Maybe it was cowardly
Ah senator she cried
It appeared that Ponsonby
It is no exaggeration
Allys pressed Billy s
It so happened that
The Boiler plate s
Ah that accursed simplicity
If I were an
Those who heeded my
At least let him
It makes one feel
She was not competent
Buck General Store to
SONG I gave to
I don t suppose
Everybody came prepared women
She eyed him with
When she was alone
They did not give
Robert was the very
The fair and welcome
This is an age
I tried to make
Deena had been trying
I might have seen
You were clever enough
French You are admirable
As they approached the
He has high ideals
Thank you very much
Was it a smile
Her family paid her
I had not seen
That is what certain
So he had decided
All up and down
You had better run
Was he sent for
Dickie flushed guiltily and
French and he laughed
Over my shoulder I
Deena she said when
It s been a
In his passion he
Twenty can play as
Then he had torn
In a moment he
Much better commented Miriam
Every now and then
Her lips tried to
Though I longed with
I hastened to introduce
It is ghoulish I
Them cussed lawyers have
No urging is necessary
And they were read
Sam Chauncey or Lady
A registered letter written
To the astonishment of
He is part of
I think the man
And this was occasioned
It never occurred to
London society is made
For the first time
But in the middle
Without disloyalty to his
Some swarthy dark eyed
For two days a
Bentnor was short stout
I couldn t sit
He drew a chair
Tim flung away his
Dicky who wore no
PLUG IVORY AND PLUG
McKinley As soon as
Joe was in the
Oh Deena she whispered
Don t hit me
We can remember feeling
I thought I had
The boy felt a
Her head ached slightly
And it s all
The Heathflower thing did
Before Miriam could reply
This well dressed gentleman
It is almost proverbial
When the Boston Lamb
I dodged out of
There is never anything
Was this Simeon She
It aroused a matinee
Deena was sitting in
In return for the
Whether Mrs Paget was
Should you like to
Toinette and Michel have
Ponsonby asked Stephen And
Is there any reason

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