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Drama 35
mats or rugs in unexpected positions so that an actor or an actress upon entering, would have to step over them; or he would place chairs upside down to see if they would have sufficient savoir-faire to put them right. Pauline now learned to expect to find Edward anywhere on the stage except where he was supposed to be.
Like many others, Edward also loved to play jokes, and how disconcerting these could be! One night in " The Little Gray Lady," Pauline encountered one that all but stopped the show! The second act of the play was set in Anna Gray's bedroom in a Washington boarding-house. The scene reveals her seated by a table quietly sewing, and then she goes through all the motions of preparing for bed. After tidying up the room and winding up the clock, she next went to the closet to pull down the folding bed, generally adding a touch of comedy by looking under the bed, after it has been pulled down, to see if there were any burglars. On this particular night Pauline made the usual preparations, but when she went to pull down the folding bed, it would not move. Unperturbed, she gave it another tug. Nothing happened. Another wrench and this time it was getting urgent that it should come down, for she had reached the end of her lines. There was a slight titter in the audience as Pauline pulled again but to no avail. Half turning towards the bed in the hope of detecting what was wrong, she began to ad lib. lines, whilst giving the bed a determined tug. It would not budge. Obviously something was wrong and the bed would have to be given something more than a casual tug. It just must come down or the scene would be ruined. There is nothing an audience hates so much as to be left out of a joke. Just as a crowd gets a thrill when the game is stopped while a player is carried off the football or baseball field, so the audience in a theatre really gets a thrill out of the unexpected happening on