A flavour of romance always clings about pearl diving. It raises -in.the mind pictures of manifold-danger—typhoons, sharks, octopus, and alli the perils of the deep, counterbalanced by the prospect of a prize. which will oompensate for all the danger -beaved,: As 8 matter of fact, from, the inside, pearling is an industry pure and simple, just like coal mining. The risks are exagerated, or at aay rate modern appliances have minimized them. The profiteare aleo exaggerated. Nowadays the grounds are well known snd preserved, the season's harvest may be calculated with a fair amount of certainty. Of course, unlooked for prizes do come, bat they are ce fow and far between that are scarcely taken into account, Also the old bale of romance has now gone, never to return. Pearl fishing is prosaic, even a sordid business. Like the search for most other precious things nowadays, the search for pearls is not a theme for the post or even for the descriptive writer. moment he comes in. Just as Grace has decided not to confess she bears his step and be enters the room with the letter in his band. Has be read it? No, it is unopened. He places it on a table, talks to her on ordinary topics. She becomes more and more distrait all the time. Suddenly be sees that the hsndwritiog is here and is on the point of opening the note when she sostches it out of his hand and barns it—tells him how much she loves bim—and the curtain falls, Grace, Miss Irene Vanbargh has just the kind of rile which lately she seems to have made particularly her own—the guilty. wil enviable pvrt, nor is it a light one as she is on the stage pearly all the time and there are four long acts in the piece.
ie excellent, and -practically Miss Lillah Macarthy is good as Mies Vernon, and as I said before, Lady Tree could not be better, bat she has not " grest deal to do, Mr. Dennis Eadie was Claade Tasole, bat I did not think the part saited him well Misa Vanbargh's dresses were by Madame Hayward. The frat was an svaning dress of cream over dress of ninon edged with for. In the second act she wore an afternoon drees of bieqait coloured Ince, In the third a white cloth morning dress with a bright rose coloured golf jersey which suited her besntifally, and in the last fact a green and blae shot satin house Grosses which was very prettily dr: bat otherwise perfectly simple, I
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