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But this sort of duologue could not go on forever. I could hear myself, in the office, saying, “I regret to report, Mr. Hearst, that I have no interview with the beauteous Clara Moores, but I offer you in its place seven pages of authentic chatter with Miss Moores’ mamma on the subject of bath-house drama.” That would never do.
So, not without some violence, I forced myself on Miss Moores. “What’s happened,” I said, “to make you give such an amazing good performance? Have you fallen in love, or did something fall on your head, or what was it?”
And the beautiful girl not only talked, she laughed.
“I haven’t fallen in love,” she said, with an assuring glance for mamma, “and nothing’s happened to my head. I guess it’s just the part. And the funny part of that is that once I rather looked down on the part, and wondered that Marie Doro — they insisted it needed a star — would play it.”
“You’re certainly another girl in ‘Lilies of the Field,’ ” I avowed. “You made me shed tears and laughter, too.”
“Then it was you!” exclaimed Mrs. Moores. “Somebody came back and said Percy Hammond was down in the front row crying. I knew it couldn’t be!”
“No; Mr. Hammond now does all his crying in New York.”
“I think it was lovely of you to feel that way about my performance,” said Miss Moores. “I got so sick of the other parts — they lasted so long. I was two years in ‘Bunker Bean,’ two years with William Hodge in ‘A Cure for Curables’ and two years with ‘Shavings’ — my smile got petrified. No wonder Amy