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" Madame X " Again — London 149
that a much better performance can be given when all are " like one happy family." With her, there was never that aloofness that is common with many stage stars who require that even the members of the company shall make an appointment before they venture to pass beneath the portal marked with a star. Pauline's dressing room door invariably stood open, and as the members of the cast arrived to get ready for the performance they usually poked their heads inside to greet her. To all of them she was just " Polly." So it was that within a very short time she was on the best of terms with the reserved English who were her fellow players in " Madame X."
The play continued at the Lyceum until May 7 th and every night it played to packed houses. On no night were there less than fourteen curtain calls. The play so moved the audience that on more than one occasion their emotions were audible. The worst instance of this occurred one night when a woman in the top gallery was so overcome during the agonies of the trial scene that she became hysterical. On the stage the atmosphere was tense and quiet as Raymond Floriot, as " Madame X's " attorney, strove in vain to get her to reveal her identity. In the midst of this tense quietness came the most piercing shrieks from the hysterical lady in the gallery. Immediately the attention of the entire audience was directed towards the disturbance, and people began to murmur audibly so that the lines of the players could not be heard. To this was added the efforts of those who, with the very best of intentions, kept murmuring " Shush," and " Quiet." Ushers carried the screaming woman out, and as they proceeded with her down the stairs from the gallery to the upper circle and from the upper circle to the dress circle, until they reached the main floor, the screams became worse, until they were finally able to get her outside the