CHAPTER XIX.
THE TRY OUT "Will the young lady on the extreme right please come forward ?" said Mr.
Southard pleasantly, indicating Marian Barber, who rather timidly obeyed, taking the book he held out to her.

At his request, she began to read from Orlando's entrance, in the first scene of the fourth act.

She faltered a little on the first two lines, but shortly regained her courage and read on in her best manner.

When she had read about a dozen lines he motioned for her to cease reading, said something to Miss Tebbs, who made an entry on her pad, and beckoned to the girl next to Marian to come forward.
Straight down the line he went, sometimes stopping a girl at her third or fourth line, rarely allowing them to read farther than the eleventh or twelfth.
Nora was the second Phi Sigma Tau to undergo the ordeal.

As she briskly delivered the opening lines, the actor stopped her.