The Last Scene of All (1914) Online

The Last Scene of All (1914) Online

For John Arden, the future holds nothing but the promise of dreamless sleep and rest. He is very old and very tired. Because the present is sad and profitless, he seeks the past in his dreams. The link which connected him with his vanished youth is a scrapbook of brown paper. In it Arden had carefully pasted the programs of the plays in which he had won his laurels as an actor. As he sits and muses over the pages, the scene fades and Arden lives again the history of his life. It was in "Richelieu" that he made the first step toward greatness. He was only a minor actor in the company of the great Celia Torrence when suddenly one of the principals was taken ill and Arden was given the part. His success was startling and immediate. The next year Arden's name was mentioned under Celia's in the program heading. But it did not stop there. As the months went by, Arden's reputation grew mightily until it fairly equaled that of the great Celia. And then, one momentous day, the star came to the...