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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE.
BUMPTIOUS PERSONALLY WELCOMED EACH BUDDING THESPIAN INTO HIS ROOM.
"Oh, Bumptious, Bumptious, wherefore art thou Eomeo ?"
But the president was so taken up with admiration of his attitude, of which he caught sight in a pier glass at the other end of the room, that the query escaped his notice.
"The first rehearsal, ladies and gentlemen, will take place here on Thursday next at seven o'clock precisely."
And with this he dismissed his myrmidons.
On the Thursday evening in question, Bumptious was all smiles, as he personally welcomed each budding Thespian into the room, and soon the rehearsal began. Dick Larkyn was in an especially good humor that evening, and his side remarks were sometimes quite audible enough to create more amusement than was appreciated by the deadly-in-earnest Bumptious. Larkyn's advice, sotto voce, to the worthy president to keep both his legs in one State of the Union was received with giggles from the ladies, whilst his answer to the world-renowned question, "Eomeo, Eomeo, wherefore art thou
Eomeo/' which was whispered into the ear of a young lady sitting beside him,
"Well, 'pon my soul, my love,
my dear, I haven't got the most remote
idea"
nearly upset the equanimity of all those who heard the sally.
"What's in a name" aroused Larkyn to doggerel verse again. He muttered under his breath,
"Were you called Jones, I'd love
you just the same, You'd be no worse — you couldn't
— at this game!"
In the fencing scene between Paris and Eomeo, Bumptious swung his foil around so vigorously that he endangered the electric lights, to say nothing of the lives of those near him. In fact, his enthusiasm carried him away so far that he very nearly ran Muddlework thru the body in real earnest. Larkyn kept up a running flow of humorous remarks during the whole rehearsal. When the dialog came, "What shall I swear by?"