Show rehearsing KISSES are Mn mustaches staches then really such implements of fascination after all the very startling question was put to a popular and pretty actress at a jolly supper do yoa you ever rehearse stage kisses the young lady smiled and replied that she always did not repeatedly she eaid said but juet once I 1 dont care to be our surprised by a peculiar sort of kiss on the night of a performance BO so I 1 always have an actor show me before band hand just how heis he Is going to do it theres nothing in a acting I 1 dread BO so much as a kiss no im not a prude I 1 and do not buffer from the actual contact of a polite and good looking fellows lips bat but there are more chances of disaster in a stage kiss than in almost any action in the drama in the first place it is apt to disturb my makeup make up ap then the actor may be a nervous man and pull away my wag wiit it im wearing one or be he may c clutch a me BO so tight that when he lets me go I 1 lose my balance and get laughed at my aly worst stage experience peri ence resulted from a kiss it was fergence ia Feri aa a scene of immense pathos while I 1 am banging about my lovers n nock ock who is beine being taken to prison the actor who played the wooer was an awful nice fellow follow and not in the least disagreeable to bang to I 1 did BO so with extra tenacity on the night in question and I 1 noticed that he tried to tree free himself of me bat I 1 clang on tight and glued my face to bis his let me goll go be gasped and tried to drug drag back but I 1 pressed my face still closer determined to get A lot oat out of the scene suddenly as I 1 was rapturously kissing him be sneezed ob oh what a sneeze it was I 1 it seemed to start from his boots and I 1 bounded away from him dazed by the bebock then I 1 heard a roar of laughter in the audience and saw my lover rushing f from 0 in the stage with one section jofh of his i s black mustache missing there was another speech before the act should hp have ve ended bat but the stage manager did not wait ait tor for it lie rang down the curtain and then informed me that I 1 had better return the actors mustache to him I 1 found a big piece of the falge false mustache sticking kingto to my chin I 1 bad had not kissed it away the actor had lost it in the sneeze |