...
The poor girls especially were terror-stricken ... and many of the boys
were too innocent to conjecture what was the matter ... at first they
thought that the rented costumes had imparted some obscure skin disease
to the entire company ... and word was conveyed to the costuming firm
that they were to be sued....
But when it was discovered that an indecent sort of vermin was the
cause, the case was dropped....
Suit could not be conducted on such grounds....
But the joke was passed around and caused considerable merriment among
the wise ones.
* * * * *
The only thing I allowed the elocution teacher and directress to do was
to put on my make-up for me ... including the sticking to my face of a
close Van Dyke beard....
I refused to avail myself of her instruction for acting, as I perceived
that was all bosh....
* * * * *
The curtain went up, I sitting there, the orchestra softly breathing
Massenet's _Elegy_--meant to be the music sent from the spirit world,
the melody that I, Iistral, heard, whenever my dead mistress was
present....
The orchestra finished the melody. It stopped and left the house in
expectancy.
A mistake had been made on the entrance-cue of little Lisel, my
child-nephew.
There I sat, in my strange robe, like a bath-robe, with stars cast over
it, waiting.
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