Show the cockney and the lady mra pat campbell has rather a caustic austli wit as tier her friends and more especially her enemies can t testify on one occasion an interview I 1 with her wua was besought by a london playwright fair or whom personally mrs alrh kampbell tild did not care very deeply the play playwright t in question was a self educated cockney and sometimes in moments of forgetfulness he lapsed into the idioms of his youth ile desired an opportunity to ten der mrs compbell a play he hod had just completed and in which ho he hoped 1 bt consent to take the star she se sc la in attentive silence while lie he read che script act by act when he had finished he looked up ap expecting some word of approval or at least of comment from froin his auditor mrs campbell Cain with a noncommittal noncom look on tier her face said nothing ut at all an awkward pause ensued ahem said the dramatist at length im afraid my rilay play seemed rather long to you long well ra rather therl I 1 drawled the lady it took you over two hours to ran read it without the 11 ll ba |