A Novel Vaudeville

  

To the Garden of Allah they went

     The Breath of the Gods to feel;

The Man of the Hour, His Heart’s Desire,

     The Gambler, the Girl, and the Deal.

They took A Dark Lantern along,

     Minerva’s Maneuvers to see;

Also the Marriage of William Ashe,

     Performed by bold Stingaree.

Ayesha and Pam and Sanna were there,

     And Nedra, Sabina and Kipps;

“O Rose o’ the River”, Pole Baker declared

     “The Orchid’s not sweet as your lips.”

The Rose of the World grew jealous of this,

     And hid in the Crimson Blind;

While Lovely O’Malley and Terrance O’Rourke

The Game and the Candle defined.

My Friend the Chauffeur brought Mrs. Jim

     And Mrs. Jimmie along;

To witness The Game in The Brooding Wild,

     And listen to Sandy’s song.

But The Deluge came and the Reign of Gilt,

     And The Storm Centre opened wide;

And The Man on the Box threw The Grapple to

     The Partners of the Tide.

The House of Cards got soaking wet

     And Millions of Mischief was wrought;

Sunrise Acres were washed away,

     And The Venus of Cadiz was caught.

The Master Mummer, The Quakeress

Sought The Ancient Landmark,

And The Ultimate Passion was overcome

     By The Tyranny of Dark.

Starvecrow Farm and The Abandoned Farm

     The Princess Passes no more;

The Accomplice must settle The Ancient Grudge

     Behind The Little Green Door.

The Social Secretary took The Ravenels

     Out Under the Rocking Skies,

Where Baby Bullet At Close Range flashed

     The Divine Fire from her eyes.

Oct. 9, 1905

Garden of Allah, Robert Smythe Hichens,1904

The Breath of the Gods, Sidney McCall, 1905

The Man of the Hour, Octave Thanet (Alice French), 1905

His Heart’s Desire: A Romance, Katherine S. Macquoid, 1903

The Gambler, Katherine Cecil Thurston, 1905

The Girl and the Deal, Karl Edwin Harriman, 1905

A Dark Lantern, Elizabeth Robins,1905

Minerva’s Maneuvers: The Cheerful Facts of a Return to Nature, Charles Battell Loomis, 1905

The Marriage of William Ashe, Mary Augusta Ward, 1905

Stingaree, EW Hornung, 1905

Ayesha, the Return of She, H Rider Haggard, 1905

Pam, Bettina Von Hutton, 1905

Sanna: A Novel, Mary E Waller. 1905

Nedra, George Barr McCutcheon, 1905

Sabina: A Story of the Amish, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, 1905

Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul, HG Wells, 1905

Rose O’ the River, Kate Douglas, 1905

Pole Baker: A Novel, Will Nathaniel Harben, 1905

The Orchid, Robert Grant, 1905

Rose of the World, Agnes and Egerton Castle, 1905

Crimson Blind, Frederick Merrick White, 1905

Lonely O’Malley: A Story of Boy Life, Arthur Stringer, 1905

Terence O’Rourke, Gentleman Adventurer, Louis Joseph Vance, 1905

The Game and the Candle, Rhoda Broughton, 1899

My Friend the Chauffeur, An Early Automobile Novel, CN & AM Williamson, 1905

Mrs. Jim and Mrs. Jimmie, Stephen Conrad, 1905

The Game, Jack London, 1905

In the Brooding Wild, Ridgwell Cullum, 1905

Sandy, Alice Hegan Rice, 1905

The Deluge, David Graham Phillips, 1905

The Reign of Gilt, Davin Graham Phillips, 1905

The Storm Centre, Charles Egbert Craddock, 1905

The Man on the Box, Harold MacGrath, 1904

The Grapple, A Story of the Illinois Coal Region, Grace MacGowan Cooke, 1905

The Partners of the Tide, Joseph C Lincoln, 1905

House of Cards, John Heigh, 1905

Millions of Mischief, Headon Hill, 1905

Sunrise Acres, Benjamin Brace, 1905

Venus of Cadiz, an Extravaganza, Richard Henry Wilson, 1905

The Master Mummer, E. Phillips Oppenheim, 1905

The Quakeress, a tale, Charles Heber Clark (Max Adeler). 1905

The Ancient Landmark, A Kentucky Romance, Elizabeth Cherry Waltz, 1905

The Ultimate Passion, A Novel, Philip Verrill Mighels, 1905

The Tyranny of the Dark, Hamlin Garland, 1905

Starvecrow Farm, Stanley J Weyman, 1905

Abandoned Farm and Connie’s Mistake, Mary Jane Holmes, 1905

The Princess Passes, CN & AM Williamson, 1905

Accomplice, Frederick Trevor Hill, 1905

The Ancient Grudge, Arthur Stanwood Pier, 1905

Little Green Door, A Novel, Mary E Stone Bassett, 1905

Social Secretary, David Grah Phillips, 1905

The Ravenels, Harris Dickson, 1905

Under the Rocking Skies, A Novel, Lewis Frank Tooker, 1905

Baby Bullet, The Bubble of Destiny, Lloyd Osbourne, 1905

At Close Range, Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1905

The Divine Fire, May Sinclair, 1905