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xix / A M E S [ 1909-19111I9O9-I9HEvery evening at lighting up o'clock sharp and until further notice inFeenichts Playhouse. (Bar and conveniences always open, Diddlem Clubdouncestears.) Entrancings: gads, a scarb; the quality, one large shilling.Newly billed for each wickeday perfumance. Somndoze massinees. By arraignment,childream's hours, expercatered.—Finnegans Wake (219)To the secret disgust of Stanislaus, Nora and Joyce encountered eachother, when he returned to Trieste in September 1909, like bride andbridegroom. James gave her the 'little gift' of the necklace, and whenStanislaus read the inscription on the pendant, 'Love is unhappy whenlove is away,' he dryly commented, 'So is love's brother.' 1But Joyce hadno attention to spare for his brother's mutterings. All that Stanislaus couldelicit from him about Dublin was an account of the reception, as of avisiting dignitary, which he had been accorded there. 'Did nobody askabout me?' Stanislaus at last timidly inquired. 'Oh yes, everybody,' saidhis brother, i got a whole lot of messages for you but I've forgottenthem.' 2Stanislaus had borne the expenses of supporting Nora and Luciaat home and James and Giorgio in Dublin, he had paid for the trip back,he had helped to prevent an ugly rift between James and Nora. He wasnot amused.There would probably have been a violent quarrel between the twobrothers if Joyce had not got away again. The new departure came aboutby accident: Eva Joyce, small and timid but observant too, found herselfhomesick for Dublin and at once spoke of returning. She liked, however,one aspect of Trieste, its cinemas, and remarked one morning how oddit was that Dublin, a larger city, had not even one. 3This casual word setJames off like a fuse. He must find a syndicate to back him. In Trieste,as it happened, there was a group of four small businessmen who hadbeen remarkably successful not only with two theaters in the city (theEdison and the Americano), but with a third, the Cinematograph Volta,300