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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1901)
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They embrace passionately : So runs the manuscript, and Sir Athol presses his lips to here for several sec onds, and Edwin and Angelina in the pit for it is Early Closing Day in Brix ton squeezs each other's hands and look into each other's eyes and yearn. "You bet he's pretty sweet on her in reel life," observes the sapient Edwin on the way home, "or he'd never kise her like that!" "Oh, do 'uBh!" replies his "divinity coyly. "Not but what I thought so too." And the ardent young stockbroker's clerk, who has a reputation in his home circle as a "regular flirt," feels that he is being wasted in mere business; that, loving the stage, he would make a splen did "stage lover," and, with 00 other qualification than that of suburban Don Juanism, he forthwith joins Mr. Squeeg er's X Company "fit-up" towns and starts on his theatrical career at Salis bury Town Hall. In reality, a stage kiss is a thing of little ecstacy to the parties concerned. It is, as a rule, dreaded by both. Where the artists are of a nervous tempera ment.the thought of the stage kiss keeps them awake at night. Never since the days of Judas has anything in kisses been invented so completely giving the lie to the real article. In the first place, however it may seem from the front, it is not easy to put much "soul" into the affair under the eves of several hundred spectators. It would not be easy, 1 imagine, in actual life; it is doubly dif ficult when all these hundreds of specta tors many of them themselves experi enced in the art of osculation have nothing else to attract their attention, and, having paid their money, mean to see the thing properly done. The audi ence forgets that, which is probably the case, these ardent lovers are the merest acquaintances, possibly even not on speaking termB outside the theatre, es pecially if there be a great discrepancy in their respective salaries. No, the dress circle sees nothing but a sweet, pretty girl clinging to her lover, her blue eyes wet with tears, her sunny ringlets falling on his manly bosom. But what does he see, poor fellow? He is the earnest lover. He has exchanged vows with her, three inches from her nose, bellowing into her face in order that the "gods" may hear and understand. She has assured him, in the same bellow, that his love is not in vain; she has loved him, oh! ever since before ehe saw him. He "thrills" a stage thrill is comparatively easy and BtartB on the kiss. He looks her full in the face (for now he is bound to), and what does he see? . Glaring into his, two unearthly look ing eyes, the lids painted dark blue, with a touch of red body-color in each of the inside corners. The lashes are thickly coated with a black substance not unlike burnt cork. On her brow he can discern the line of the wig with the sunny ringlets attached. He knows the sickly taste of the ultra-sanguine, rose bud lips. But, loyal to his author, he plays the man. He strains the yielding form to his heart; he "kisses" her; the curtain falls on a picture of unexam pled love, and, as the lights in the audi torium are switched on, Edwiu and An gelina yearn again. And Io! Angelina's soft eyes are filled with tears, she iB that happy! Who, who can question the stage-lover's right to a bottle of stout, or any other refreshment he may require, after this? And surely the ghastly business is no less disagreeable to the poor femi nine victim, fresh, very likely, from all the comforts of a refined home, with flowers and things. If only in a stage kiss each wasn't so near to the other! It only each could not see the other! But, by Jove! he can, and that iB where the trouble of stage kisseB comes in. The crowning torture of a stage kiss may be anJ, where possible is avoid. nd hv thn "kind imnlinH" motVmd lin.. ' the author's victims shoot their heads over each other's shoulder, and, by their ecstatic thrills, give the audience to understand that a kiss is going on some where in the region of the ear. Hut the "kiss implied" must be done very adroitly, or the implication will be miss ing; and he must carefully guard the lapel of his dress-coat from contact with her cheek, for both their sakes. But it is a cowardly subterfuge at best. Or it may be that a mere planting ot the lips on her brow, just near the wig, will suf fice; but the "kiss paternal" denotes a flabby, degenerate sort of lover. Again, if matters have not gone to extremes.7' the young man may get off with kissing the' lady's hand; the "kiss reverential" is a good way out of the difficulty when practicable. But the best way of all, from the actor's point of view, is to cut out the objectionable lines and episode, or to re-write the play. From The Sketch. A Famous Newspaper Correspondent. There are few if any newspaper men in the United States with a more bril liant record than that achieved by Mr. William E. Curtis, the famous Wash ington correspondent of the Chicago Record-Herald. Among newspaper men as well as among the careful readers of newspapers, it is generally conceded that Mr. Curtis is the dean of the large colony of trained journalists at the na tional capital. His relations with the eminent men in Washington are so inti mate and bo personal, that he has an immense advantage over the ordinary correspondent. They give to him their confidence, knowing that he will prop- nrly discriminate what should be sa'd and what should not. The newspaper career of Mr. Curtis began in Chicago in 1872. Starting as a reporter, he worked his way upward rapidly to the position of managing edi tor, which he resigned to become the secretary of the South American Com mission a government appointment. While in this position, Mr. Curtis trav eled extensively in Central and South America, producing several popular vol umes as the literary result of his labors. Later on, in co-operation with Secre tary of State James G. Blaine, Mr. Cur tis organized the work of the Bureau of American Republics, and was placed in charge of that organization; and at the World's Columbian Exposition he dis tinguished himself by his labors as the executive head of the Latin-American departments. As correspondent of the M Chicago Record, Mr. Curtis' travels car-r ; ried him not only into all quarters of the United States, but almost every where abroad. His letters to the Rec ord from Japan and China were pub lished in book form; likewise his letters from England, Germany and France, and also those resulting from his travels in Mexico and in South America. A letter from Mr. Curtis iB published in every issue of The Chicago Record-Herald, daily and Sunday. "1 cannot sing the old songs." Her promise sweet and terse, She kept . But then she went and sang "2 he new ones which was worse . Town Topics. Wife Isn't fifty dollars a month a good deal to spend at your club, con sidering it takes you away from home so much? Husband Yes. But it's worth it. Town Topics. r j
