“I have had a long trip in the stage coach. . . . Did you bring me to England when I was an orphan child?”
“Miss Manet, it was me, but you aren’t an orphan.”
She kneels.
“Quick, sir, the truth!” she cries.
“Your father is found. He is a wreckage in prison.”
Lucy Manet faints. Curtain.
Both actors were forced to take a curtain call after this. Isabelle manages to push fat Margie into the wings while she stays on, bowing, to announce:
“Margie Hunter is Dr. Manet this scene.”
The next scene discovers Margie Hunter, in a long beard, cobbling a shoe, hastily contributed by Tommy Page at the last moment. A dramatic and tender meeting between father and child was played in a tense key, only slightly marred by the frequent loss of Father Manet’s hirsute appendage.
The scene changed suddenly and unexpectedly to the court room in England where D’Arnay appears as prisoner. Margie Hunter played the judge. Teddy Horton as D’Arnay was so overcome with stage fright that Isabelle had to tell him all his lines. However, when it came to Lucy Manet’s testimony the scene lifted. At the climax, just when Sidney Carton was to make his dramatic entrance into the story, it was discovered that Tommy had not his shoe. In the quick change, it had been left in the corner of Manet’s garret. The action was held up while it was restored to him, but he put it on so hastily that he lost it once or twice during the scene. It kept his mind off his lines, rather. The moment came when the striking resemblance between D’Arnay and Carton is pointed out by Lucy. Tommy Page—plump, short, red-haired, with freckles—and Teddy Horton—tall, gangling, half a head taller than his double—stood side by side facing the audience.