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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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talked MabelMuriel out of that in a hurry. We saidwe would write the play first, just wefour girls, and we would have only fourcharacters in it, because then we couldact it all ourselves. If it was good wewould tell Sister Irmingarde about it asa pleasant surprise and let her read it;and perhaps later we would have a specialperformance for the Sisters and showthem how the stage could be elevatedand uplifted, Maudie said. So MabelMuriel agreed (Mabel Blossom hadagreed at once, because she said her mindneeded something to bite on, too), andthen we began to talk about the play. First of all we agreed that instead ofwriting a brand-new play we would takean old one, or two or three old ones, andwrite them over. That would be easier,you see. Maudie said she thought itwould be a good idea for each girl towrite her own part—the character shewas to be, you know. So I suggestedthat I would be Juliet and write a partlike hers, where the lovely girl is onlyfourteen and has drunk the cup of life
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598 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. to its dregs, and dies in the last act.Maudie said in that case she would beRomeo, and rewrite all his part andmake it stronger. We were both so de-lighted we stopped and hugged each other,and did not observe, alas! that darkclouds were lowering on the brows of ourdear friends Mabel Blossom and MabelMuriel Murphy. Mabel Muriel spokeright up and told us she wanted to playa part like Cleopatra, and die with anasp on her breast, and she said she knewshe could write a lovely part carrying outall her own ideas. She said she wouldmake Cleopatra love Julius Caesar witha love that knew no death, and spurnMark Antony coldly,—because she, MabelMuriel, had never liked Mark Antonyvery much, anyhow. Almost before shegot through, and ere our tongues couldfind fitting words to point out the poorchilds errors, Mabel Blossom struck inand said that for her part she was goingto be like Laura in The Pit, for shewanted her character to be right up todate and in Chicago. The

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