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152 Pauline Frederick
into the intensity of the play that most of them were too busy wiping their eyes and blowing their noses to be able to spare a hand to clap! When they did, the applause was so startling after that pregnant moment of silence that the entire cast jumped. Moreover, the applause, so late in starting, continued through twenty-six curtain calls.
On her arrival in Dublin, Pauline found herself once more mobbed, for where can you find anyone more emotional than an Irishman! At the station a bevy of admirers had collected and presented her with a lovely bouquet of roses. Pauline smiled and waved her hand and signed autographs, good-naturedly allowing herself to be jostled here and there. To try and make her way through this seething mass of humanity to the waiting car looked almost impossible. Mr. Carroll took the roses from her so as to leave her as free as possible and he made a valiant attempt to clear a way for her. Struggling ahead of her through the crowd, he held the bouquet above his head in the hope of preventing the roses from being crushed. The next time Pauline looked in his direction, all she saw was this dignified impresario holding aloft a bunch of spikes! Every rose had been stripped from the supporting wires, and when finally they sank breathless into the car, he presented Pauline with something that more closely resembled the back of a hedgehog than a bouquet!
The tour of the British Isles lasted ten months and they played in more than sixteen towns. During her visit in England, she also made a film at Twickenham under the direction of Herbert Wilcox. Herbert Marshall was her leading man and the well known British actor, Nelson Keys, was in the cast. The film was called " Mumsie " and was her first and only British film. This film was Herbert Marshall's first appearance before a motion picture camera and he says he was terrified. To make one's debut with an actress from an