"_No, my dear old chap, you_ must _play the Baron. You see, anybody, why I myself, can rattle through the Count. Plays itself, don'tcherknow. But the Baron,_ that _wants an Actor. No, no, you must play the Baron_;" _i.e._, "_He_ play the Count, at his age, and with his figure, and cut me out of my favourite part! Put a spoke in _that_ wheel." "With _a song! Oh, but_ is _my voice good enough to go with Miss Seetop's?_" _i.e._, "Scraggy screamer; she'd spoil SIMS REEVES at his best." "_What I'm anxious about is the love-scene. You see I'm hardly up to the Romeo role_;" _i.e._, "With _such a Juliet_!" * * * * * --> NOTICE.--Rejected Communications or Contributions, whether MS., Printed Matter, Drawings, or Pictures of any description, will in no case be returned, not even when accompanied by a Stamped and Addressed Envelope, Cover, or Wrapper. To this rule there will be no exception. * * * * * Transcriber's Note page 267: 'pudent' (sic) retained ... possibly adjective from noun: pudency, n. Modesty. (f. LL pudentia) (Oxford Dictionary) or, from Latin Dictionary: Pudens, pudentis, modest; bashful. Pudenter, modestly, bashfully. "To pose as SCIPIO, that pudent Roman," page. 270: 'millionnaire', the French spelling of 'millionaire', has been retained. Errata: page 268: 'Brition' corrected to "Briton". "But the Briton hugs his tankard," page 268: 'responbilities' corrected to 'responsibilities' "when the Companies began really to understand their responsibilities"