Ralph Henry Barbour

Name: The Playwright and the Lady — Chapter 9
Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

The Playwright and the Lady — Chapter 9 (1905)

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“The Playwright and the Lady — Chapter 9”, published in 1905, is a work by Ralph Henry Barbour. It explores elements such as actress, Aberthaw and Vynn.

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The Playwright and the Lady — Chapter 9 (1905)

“ In those days there was less of distraction to be found in life; a woman’s mission was to be loved, a man’s to love. Well, there they were, the pair of them; young, hot-blooded and wildly in love with each other. There was no one to offer restraint to either of them. You know what happened. Wrong? Of course it was wrong, damnably wrong! I beg your pardon! But—but it was uncommonly near the right thing to do—in those days! ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The Playwright and the Lady — Chapter 9 (1905)

“ A young girl and, if all the reports and her picture tell truth, a marvelously beautiful one, married to a man three times her age and brought up here to what in those days was little better than a wilderness. Left to her own devices more than half the time, I dare say, left to get through the days as best she might with half a dozen servants, maybe, and a few acquaintances scattered over fifty miles of country. How much love she may have had for her husband when she married him I don’t know. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The Playwright and the Lady — Chapter 9 (1905)

“ It only seems to me unlikely that an actress who must, from the natural condition of things, depend largely upon notoriety for success should refuse to be photographed.”
“I don’t like that word ‘notoriety,’” she said, frowningly.
“Then I will change it to ‘publicity,’” he answered.
“Then you don’t think that an actress has any right to lead a private existence off the stage?”
“Frankly, I don’t. An actor is a public personage, as much so as the King of England, the President of the United States, the last successful prize fighter, or a favorite Spanish toreador. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The Playwright and the Lady — Chapter 9 (1905)

“ To attempt to stand in the limelight for three hours a day and draw back into his shell the other twenty-one is absurd. And it can’t be done.”
“Perhaps you are right,” she said, with a sigh.
“However, very few of them ever attempt it,” he added. “And I don’t think this English actress is sincere in the matter.” ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The Playwright and the Lady — Chapter 9 (1905)

“ I know no more than you. And I'd like mighty well to know. It puzzles and worries me all the time. Perhaps when I have seen it played I shall know. Nydia Vynn may be able to solve that question, but it’s beyond me.”
“And if she doesn’t?”
“Then the audience must solve it for themselves: It will be another case of ‘The Lady or the Tiger.’”
“It will create discussion.”
“Let us hope so; discussion never yet damaged a play.”
“And folks will write you and beg you to tell them.”
“In which case I shall politely refer them to you.” ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The Playwright and the Lady — Chapter 9 (1905)

“ The second act terminates in a love scene between Miriam and Aberthaw, in which, after almost yielding, she sends the lover away. In the third act she strives to drive thoughts of him out of her heart by devotion to her child. Aberthaw has promised not to see her again, save at her request, and he does not again appear. But he writes her a letter in which he tells her that he cannot keep his promise while he is in the same country with her and that he has determined to go to America. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The Playwright and the Lady — Chapter 9 (1905)

“ I believe that, many years ago, our family lived somewhere in this State.”
“That must be it,” he said, eagerly. “There must be more than chance in it.”
“Very well; I am quite willing to acknowledge my relationship with such a charming young lady. And that, of course, makes you and I related, doesn’t it?” she asked.
“Second cousins,” he answered, promptly. “Really, I must apologize for making such a fuss about it, but the fact is, the resemblance took my breath away for the moment.”
She smiled carelessly and returned the case to him. “You are quite forgiven—cousin,” she said. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The Playwright and the Lady — Chapter 9 (1905)

“ Twice I have attempted it, both times in London last season, and each time something entirely unforeseen occurred at the last moment to prevent it. However, London thinks her a great actress, and I have no doubt that we on this side will agree with them; we usually do, I think. Sommers, who is to manage her here, expects great things. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The Playwright and the Lady — Chapter 9 (1905)

“ So I have brought the story down to date, placed it in a village outside of London, made the elderly husband the president of a city bank and the lover a young architect, a well-balanced chap in whom the practical and the artistic are pretty evenly mixed. ”

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