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" Madame X " Again — London 141
of mystic tragedy and her sobs were the most poignant ever heard in the theatre."
From Los Angeles they went to San Francisco. Again the critics were sceptical but curious. Would the critical audiences be interested in this revival? Were they? This is what they said the next day: " From the very outset the old timers knew their fears were baseless. And the youngsters began to learn at once just why they'd heard their elders say so often, ' Oh, but you should have seen Pauline Frederick as Madame X.' ' The thunder of applause which she received at the final curtain swept even Pauline off her feet. Fresh from her triumphs in Australia and with those other triumphant years behind her, she was by now accustomed to prolonged applause when she did a good part, but it was something which never ceased to affect her. This San Francisco audience shouted, it hurrahed, and the gallery whistled until it was dry. Thirty -one curtain calls she took! And then she broke down and cried from sheer happiness and the whole audience cried with her! Who says that modern audiences aren't as emotional as their grandmothers? It was one of those moments that Pauline never forgot. She tried to speak to them but couldn't. All she could say — and that was in a little weak voice hardly more than a whisper — " I know I ought to say something but I simply can't. I — I — there's just no audience in the world like you."
Nor did her triumph end there — but before going into that, just a word about the cast supporting her, for among them was one who was then quite unknown but who today, if he appeared in person on a San Francisco stage, would himself be mobbed. He played one of the lesser parts — that of Valmorin, the public prosecutor. His name was CLARK GABLE. At that time he was still several years away from Hollywood and stardom. And what a different looking man