Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1925, Page 22

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, The Spring Flight BY INEZ HAYNES IRWIN. Copyright. 1925, by the McCall Co. ay's Star.) akspere applauded T saw her not first. | think, and T )y of these poor scrib- blers he! were ever born to take from me dramatic share of the romance and poetry that lies bound in merry Eng- land. “Oh, Will"—Fletcher turned the talk —hast heard of Daborne and his new children’s company? More ‘little eyases’ to make us trouble. Of the new theater near the Paris Garder i The talk went on. The smoochy | ad—his s A eye scuttling ! on's e move to Jonson's nkards with Canary | again and again and The big fire died down at inte but some one always replenished it from a pile | of logs at the side. When the flames burned high they turned the little | rounds of opaque gl in the cz ments to files of glaring eves; the room scemed crowded. They illuminat- ed the farthest corne: t that one, | alread 1 by the flame of a | candle, nkling Tom He d crote 'steadily on, despite the talk— | ste steadily on even though he | oined in The big plain room | had an ome to Shaksp: for it h: nds of wine- bedewed, ion-ridden nights | ] touched the stars. ¥ drawing on its walls was famil far to ¥ And | the men in it were h s, true and tried. Not that he had not had his major and minor, with in some into the c And when the softer glow faces, on I the room listened and drew thens listened and, if the ta run into one of the of wit, drew them out did not happen often. By of will he made it a night of anecdote and reminiscence, There was plenty of talk. There were the latest tal of Henslowe's niggardliness—no Me maid night was a su without a Henslowe val. From Beaumont | there were stories of the production | of the “Knight of the Burning Pestle fl:‘mn Fletcher, of the handsome way Tom Heywood had helped them in their satire on him; from Ben, of the | production of the ““Alchemist” and of | the difficulties he having with a | new play, “Cataline”—*"a damned dull dnm\u‘ of desperation!” he des ribed it. 8o dull had it become, indeed, that he had begun a new, highly contrasting gne. When the talk turned to the past, mson spun a lon, of e week he and Marston and Chapmar sreos In prison the time produc us wa exi. blaze died down that failed to picl m on pewter ter-filled eyes in for to out rds, | oned { Shalspere | tened to uproarious duels | told of his acting s a chil . s went ronimo”—inters tmprompru ¢ hold their b As lon after turned into Mc a sense of pe had v *d in the hi, wind of London talk. Tomorrow would sit down and write. God, how he would w But next morninz, although ¥ was rare and the sun poured its heartening gold awer the entire Lon. don world, “though quill and white | paper were close at hand, through | Mistress Montjoy by whispered bribes | or threats held the entire household under the spell of a quietude like death itself, write he could not. Eves closed, mind held taut, he tried to relieve last night’s rapturous mood: to distill it into the day’s expression. All useless! He scribbled half lines and broken phrases, drew strange 8mateur pictures, thought hard with his down-bent head clutched in his han thought hard, pacing the | room the while: thought hard, face. down upon his bed All useless! An thing else he might accomplish. =But of a certainty one thing he could not do—and that was write. It added to his sense of gloom that out of his early-morning talk with Mistres: Montjoy he had gleaned a coming trouble in the Montjoy family. The old dispute in regard to their daught. er Juliet, and her dowry. Mont- Joy and his son-in-law no longer spoke: there were whispers about a suit at law. Of course, that case, he'd be summoned a Well, he'd stand with “Juliet”—the pet of his long years of living with the Montjc mily. This phantom care Kept coming between him and his thought. Maddened at last by his and deadne: he seized his 1 forth. Automati- 1 Cheapside. with m. All his mels the ally he made tow It was a fair London scene, the clear, the wind flawing but br and in other times or in another mood Shakspere’s heart would have leap- ed to the color and bustle and g: ety of it all. Cheapside was crowded with shoppers and strollers; house- wives with baskets; gallants in plumes Chevy Chase, Md. Vacant v desirably located south- ern exposure, on Taylor immediately east of Conn. 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Still a rarity in that yusy district, it provoked all the ridi- cule, ribaldry and raucousness of which the ’prentices of Cheap were capable notwithstanding the lovely lady inside, who, displaying a fosy indignation, hastily put on her mask. In the midst of ali this, an inquisitely fellow lolling at his @ork, an idle eye ranking the street, got glimpse of Shakspere. Immediately his shrill cry, “Ho lads, 'tis Wil ‘Shaks- pere! Will of Will of the King’s men!” up by his fellows till all about the streets rang with “Hi, Will'" and “Ho, Will Shakspere doffed his hat and it with his most professional—and mechanical—smile. How his heart had jumped the first time Cheap had heered him! He had not written, on that long-ago thrilled day, a single word—but it not from mental sterflity, only from surplusage of charmed emotion. Now that chorus was as_hollow to him as the beating of a child’s hand on a drum. He was conscious only of the city-stinks and, for the first time, of a longing for the sweet fresh of the Warwickshire ir: VHi Willl Ho W1 The c ran down the street as suc e lines of shopmen took it up. Shak- spere continued mechanically to smile. racefully to wave his hat. Presently the cheers ran down. He turned on the bridg, slowed down his brisk walk to a saunter. Now the scene, though less gay, was more beautiful He stopped and listlessly surveved it. The Thames—it the brief interval between tides—stretched like a vast carpet of satin, taut except where now nd then, as though insecurely fasten- ed. it rippled in the breeze; and blue save where the sun—his mind made a little flicker at verse: “Faint, gilded pools where yet the. And then it ught with violence on t oral snag, “gilded,” and ceased. Was ever poet haunted by a single word as he by ilded”? A cold, stark disgust with certain crystallized habits of ex- pression added its burden to his mood. Apathetically he continued to gaze on the scene. Boats were gliding from shore to hore ovef the suave river surface, and the cries of the boatmen, “East- ward ho!” and “Westward ho'’ came in a faint music to his ears. Close to the banks swans drifted. Along the north shore—flower gardens linking them softly with the river and the velvet lawns holding them rigidly apart—stretched the splendid pile of palaces which was the haughtiest ele ment in the city’s many-faceted beau- tv Along the same bank, but back of him, nondescript shops and dwellings n to the square, geometic gray hulk f the Tower. Between them. as though offering a sacred barricade nst_social_admixture—huge a Detached Homes Northwest Three Sold—Four Left Price, $5,750.00 Very Easy Terms Sample House 3907 Davenport St. N.W. 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One moment it brought strongly to his nose the odors from rried of the After a_while, he moved—almost without direction—on. His profes sional eve, sweepfhg the South Bank, had noted that no flag hung out at the Globe. No performance that day. He wondered vaguely why. In the same apathy, but following his habit, he looked up as he passed off the bridge to the superstructure which topped it. Yes, his luck-symbol of other the skull of some poor long traitorous devil which had always seemed, most amiably and encourag- ingly, to grin on him—still stuck to its pike. He had thought he would continue on to the Globe, but the absence of the flag changed his mind. After a moment of indecision, he turned to the left, plunged into a maze of tiny streets. ' They grew broader and more residential in character as they pull- ay from London Bridge. Final- ime to a trim little common. On the daisy-specked grass, children r A line of geese drew white strenk over the green as they rocked toward the water-trough in the center. At one of the small houses, half-timbered and of a smiling do- mestic appearance, Shakspere paused, knocked. Why, it's Master Shakspere!” ex- claimed the black-eyed, warmly-hued | woman who opened the door to him. And frankly she held up the bursting bloom of her lips to his “How now, Mistr Harvard,” Shakspere answered, saluting her. “How dare" flower so in the London air? Or is it Stratford roses that still glow in your cheek? = And how fairly you are placed!” he added as she conducted him inside. The room they entered was bigger than, from the outside, the hous seemed able to contain. High case- ments were partly open to the breeze and, burning through their bulleyes, the sun had flecked the floor with its own marquetry. At one side, a bunch of Spring posies filled a pewter bowl; and the bowl lay beside a big volume that nearly covered the table. Mis- tress Harvard drew a chair— high- backed and carved—for Shakspere, seated herself in another, the hand of each arm clasping the dimpled elbo: of its fellow. “Tell me of Stratford,” she begged, her big eves, a trifle too full for real beauty, dancing; the warm color flooding and receding. Shakspere conscientiously told her the news of the town. That was what interested her most, though she made perfunctory inquiries as to his work, ending with—was it a new play that 1d_brought him to London? To Shakspere's great relief, however, she did not ask him its name, nor what Adroit as he was in conversation—and he had enough in- stinctive sympathy and sense of hu- mor to produce unlimited v8lume of even Mistress Harvard's kind—he was consclous of a feeling of relief when her husband appeared. John Harvard was one of the few of the vounger generation In Strat- ford with whom Shakespere had a real mental clutch. He was a big, boned man; his broad shoulders in perpetual stoop: his gray eyes al- ways gaunt with his midnight study- ing. Harvard had none of the poet in him; but he was a student of an inspired order. Shakspere hal often gone to him when, in his work, he struck snags of history, science, medicine or the law. The big book on the table, a recent purchase which he immediately displayed to Shakspere, was an e dence of a scholarly rather than a religious trend in him. It was that new version of the Bible, of which for months there had been %o much talk. The two men drew up to the table, lost themselves in examination and discussion. “We have it not yet at Trinity spere_said " (Continued in Tomorrow’s Star.) 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Bunuan, director of the Philippine press bureau, declared that the Fili- pinos are fighting for the same free. dom and independence that the pa- triots of the American Revolution fought for during the Revolutionary ‘War, and made an appeal for help fér the realization of similar ideals by the Filipino people. “It matters not whether in your ¢ with England, you were the victims of tyranny, and In our case with vou we are the recipients of | generosity,” he said, “the principles | of human right, human justice ahd | human freedom govern each. The only difference is that in your case you thirsted for liberty and fought to get it, while in our case we have been| made, by your altruism and benevo- lence, to taste of liberty, and enjoving thus the benefits it conveys, we would have you bestow it to us full Mr, Bunuan cited facts and figures showing readiness of the Filipinos for independence. S MAY 23, 1925. 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