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Show H if U The First Violin. H, f "Is oo' Tired?" 'I Ess. 4 i "Is oo' Seepy?" H I , 1 Ess. H 'j f "Where's oo'Mouf?" H This came from the next stall in the restaurant mm U after the tiresome First Violin, where wc were dis- M cussing what there was to discuss in the frightful B inactive play. It was the best description we had Hj heard, and woke us from the letcrgy we had fallen H into waiting for the) omeletts and the steins. Every- H one was tired and bored, and looked it. The novel H il yes, the play, no Mr. Mansfield, yes Mr. Mans- H j field's people, no. The character work, particularly H1' ,, in the station scene, was well sustained by the men, Hm' . but the frightful women were like the beginning of H t the world, without form and void. H i , Perhaps Mansfield puts on "The iirst Violin" to w I If rest, but he was wise in selecting the last night for B L it. $2.50 is easy for "Beaucaire" but the extrac- r ') tion of 25 cents from a trouscr recess for the First m "f , Violin would be, again, a painful operation. Mr. H r Mansfield, of course was artistic, but there was mm fLt nothing in his stupid lines, and Miss Mollison m j K poor woman was a correct imitation of a limp rag. H . j )' Let us hope that Richard will never again try to mWg ' string us with anything so out of tune as The B ! 'i $ s First Violin. mm , , r |