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Strictly B' us in css 7
professor, curb broker, and farmer, has a play tucked
away somewhere. They tuck 'em in trays of trunks,
trunks of trees, desks, haymows, pigeonholes, inside
pockets, safe-deposit vaults, handboxes, and coal cellar,
waiting for MIr. Frohman to call. They belong among
the fifty-seven different kinds.
But Bob Hart's sketch was not destined to end in a
pickle jar. He called it "Mice Will Play." IIe li:i
kept it quiet and hidden away ever since he wrote it,
waiting to find a partner who fitted his conception o
"IIelen Grimes." And here was "Helen' herself, with
all the innocent abandon, the youth, the sprightliness, and
the flawless stage art that his critical taste demanded.
After the act was over Hart found the manager in the
box office, and got Cherry's address. At five the ne\xt
afternoon he called at the musty old house in the Welt
Forties and sent up his professional card.
By daylight, in a secular shirtwaist and plain roilc
skirt, with her hair curbed and her Sister of Charity eye.s,
Winona Cherry might have been playing the part o,
Prudence Wise, the deacon's daughter, in the great
(unwritten) New England drama not yet entitled anything.
"I know your act, Mr. Hart," she said after she had
looked over his card carefully. "What did you wish to
see me about?"
"I saw you work last night," said Hart. "I've written
a sketch that I've been saving up. It's for two; and II I
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Henry, O., 1862-1910. Strictly Business, book, 1910; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139374/m1/19/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.