Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-01-26 | Page 10 | Our First Year

OUR 0 l R FIRST FIRS T YEA YEARBY YEAR YEAR- R BY A BRIDE GRID I PLAYS TI Tim THIS THING Bonny Is s making all ali this trouble for fox everybody because she's so ignorant said I to Me She doesn't realize how shed she'd upset the play If she drops out of ot the cast She never stops stopa to think how awfully cut up her father will be if he has to take George Bradshaw for tor fora tora a son law the whole trouble with modern modern modern mod mod- ern flappers They're too young to have sense Peggy Madison Peggy Pegg Madison youve you've got some Job job job-It if you keep Bonny from eloping I used to believe that lifes life's complexities complex 1 ties were of slow growth and avoidable if one ona had sense Since my marriage rye learned that the most trying situ situ- situations situations develop in about half a min min- ute Alone as a spinster 1 i had to de decide decide decide de- de cide things for myself As a bride I never could make a decision without consulting Jack And that was the very thing we had planned to avoid Once upon a time I would have been completely absorbed In the play But marriage had made It impossible for me to handle any detail of my ex exIstence existence existence ex- ex so simply How Slow I 1 acted was now le less s Important to me than how Jack would react to m my work In my part How would he take the love scene when the Viking was reunited to his bride I made my entry In Barts Bart's arms I his queen was supposed to have come comedoWn comedown comedown down to the harbor to welcome him and he had picked me up and carried me me aboard his ship My returning hero had bad many rich gifts girts for me I sat by his side while captive maids spread the rich treasure I of the raid before me Bart made an elemental conquering Norse lover The captive maids who served me were all humble enough mere enough mere slaves the Vikings Viking's VIkIngs VIkIng's Vikings Viking's Vik VIk- except one She gazed g upon ings ing's wife with the eyes of an equal And I knew for a rival In my lords lord's affection Each recognized the fact without word each guessed the place and the e power of the other as hl rival women eaf af always and everywhere e have known Only the man In a triangle case is ever duped for long So ran the play Before Bart picked me up he had warned me Now Dont Don't make a a. row Heres Here's where Jack Madison gets what's coming to him Dont Don't pinch or 01 bite when hen I kiss you Dont Don't stick a pin into me when I hug you rou Peggy Youve You've got nothing to say in this little act Now If Jack can be made to feel hes he's going to have his chance Peggy listen to me Your Jack Is la in f for r a alesson alesson lesson lesson H Half lt way through the scene Beene Jack began to pace up and down the audi audi- Was he angry Or disgusted Or hurt 1923 NEA Service Copyright I ITo To B Be Continued