The Ice Palace TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text "A Southerner wouldn't talk the way you're talking now," she said evenly.<br><br>"They haven't the energy!"<br><br>"Or the somethin' else."<br><br>"I'm sorry Sally Carrol, but I've heard you say yourself that you'd never marry---"<br><br>"That's quite different. I told you I wouldn't want to tie my life to any of the boys that are round Tarleton now, but I never made any sweepin' generalities."<br><br>They walked along in silence.<br><br>"I probably spread it on a bit thick Sally Carrol. I'm sorry."<br><br>She nodded but made no answer. Five minutes later as they stood in the hallway she suddenly threw her arms round him.<br><br>"Oh, Harry," she cried, her eyes brimming with tears; "let's get married next week. I'm afraid of having fusses like that. I'm afraid, Harry. It wouldn't be that way if we were married."<br><br>But Harry, being in the wrong, was still irritated.<br><br>"That'd be idiotic. We decided on March."<br><br>The tears in Sally Carrol's eyes faded; her expression hardened slightly.<br><br>"Very well--I suppose I shouldn't have said that."<br><br>Harry melted.<br><br>"Dear little nut!" he cried. "Come and kiss me and let's forget." That very night at the end of a vaudeville performance the orchestra played "Dixie" and Sally Carrol felt something stronger and more enduring than her tears and smiles of the day brim up inside her. She leaned forward gripping the arms of her chair until her face grew crimson.<br><br>"Sort of get you dear?" whispered Harry.<br><br>But she did not hear him. To the limited throb of the violins and the inspiring beat of the kettle-drums her own old ghosts were marching by and on into the darkness, and as fifes whistled and sighed in the low encore they seemed so nearly out of sight that she could have waved good-by.<br><br>"Away, Away, Away down South in Dixie! Away, away, Away down South in Dixie!"<br> COMMENTS: Visual Text This story asks the question: "Can a Northern man fall for a Southern gal" You'd have to find a way to make that question relevant in order to make this story work. And substituting a current unlikely pairing probably isn't sufficient, as there isn't much PLOT here. CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: TheIcePalace.pdf
