STAGE ROMANCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2513, 14 May 1902, Page 57

STAGE ROMANCE.

PEER'S SON AND CHORUS GIRL. A romantic story is told by the members of the Silver Slipper Company, recently appearing at Hanley, in Staffordshire, the hero and heroine being members of the company. Some months ago Mr Tom B. Davis engaged a young lady of striking beauty and good family to take part in the chorus of one of his companies. Not long ago rthis young lady was proposed to by a gentleman, a peer's son, whose offer was emphatically refused, mainly on the ground of "difference in stations." Under anvissumed name the rejected suitor, who is an excellent musician, secured an appointment with Mr Davis, and was drafted into the same company as the lady with whom he had fallen in love. The situation became more interesting from the fact that the lady and gentleman had to take part in the double sextette, in which the gentleman sings — "So come, little girl, and tell me truly if you love me; You are my solitary girl up here." To which the lady has to respond in .a way that would be considered hopeful by the ordinary lover. For some months the lady persisted in her refusal to encourage the young nobj-jmr.n's overtures, but both have now handed*"* their notices, and Hanley is the last town m which they will appear on the stdge. Their new aogagement is to be of a matrimonial character.