BLUE-GRASS AND BROADWAY



keeping with Miss Hawtry and Maggie
Murphy's character, and emanated from
that quality within her that a month later
put "The Rosie Posie Girl" up as high and
as brilliant in electric lights as "The Purple
Slipper," and kept it there an entire year.
Which goes to prove that the "tissue paper
world" is yet of heroic fibre.
  When Mr. Vandeford went to insert his
author into the international safety that eve-
ning at about the hour of midnight, he saw
that his friend the secretary was shooing a
chattering party of Christian ladies, who, as
his guests, had sat in a group, fifth row cen-
ter, in the New Carnival Theater that eve-
ning, off up-stairs. With his talisman key,
which had never left his pocket since it had
been presented to him, in his hand, he paused
to speak in a friendly shadow to his suc-
cessful and now truly eminent playwright.
  "You '11 have to go South Thursday, and
I 'll follow Sunday to get that little mar-
riage business over in Adairville before we
leave for the Klondike. My commission
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