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and to make our mirthe the completer, Sir J. Minnes was in the highest pitch of mirthe, and his mimicall tricks, that ever I saw, and most excellent pleasant company he is, and the best mimique that ever I saw, and certainly would have made an excellent actor, and now would be an excellent teacher of actors.
He was not in any sense of the word a great actor, but he well adorned the station of theatrical life in which it had pleased heaven to place him, and strutted his lengthy hour upon the stage with much satisfaction to his companions and the public.
"That's why he chuckled at us!" and Dolly's eyes twinkled at the joke. Somehow, she seemed more at ease with the actor than the other girls. "You see, Mr. Brown, we thought you'd be more like you are on the stage. Of course we didn't expect you'd be dressed like the Lascar, or or made up, isn't that what you call it? but we thought you'd be stagy and actory " James Brown laughed.
Only ten hours earlier her nephew had bid her farewell for the day. Christian began an explanation in a weary, mechanical way, like an actor tired of the part assigned to him, but the old ladies would not listen. Aunt Hester interrupted him promptly. "Your shallow excuses are wasted on us, Nephew Vellacott.
TALMA. The great reputation which circumstances and his friends have given to this actor has, probably, rendered him celebrated in England. Accordingly he made his debut in that line about fifteen or sixteen years ago. Without being brilliant, his first appearances were successful, and he was received on trial. He soon caused himself to be remarked by the correctness of his dress.
Christy would not have known him if he had met him on shore. "You look like another man," said he, laughing. "A French detective has to learn the art of disguising himself; in fact, he has to be an actor.
He himself had received a rap and we don't hate ourselves. Great is the syllogism! But there is a class of arguments less vulnerable. In this predicament was the Poet Laureate. So the miscreant Proteus no bad name for an old actor took his little cocked hat and marched, a smaller, if not a wiser man.
"Oh, Alice!" protested Ruth. Mr. Sneed was observed to be walking about, peering at the various sign boards on which the destination of trains was given. "What are you looking for?" asked Russ. "I want to see that we don't start out on track thirteen as we did when we went to Oak Farm, and had the wreck," the actor answered. "I've had enough of hoodoos."
Or if the book was one of travels, I found myself the traveller. New lands, fresh experiences, novel customs, rose around me. I walked, I discovered, I fought, I suffered, I rejoiced in my success. Was it a history? I was the chief actor therein. I suffered my own blame; I was glad in my own praise. With a fiction it was the same. Mine was the whole story.
As an actor, and especially as an English actor, it is a great pleasure to speak for my art in one of the chief centres of American culture; for in inviting me here to-day you intended, I believe, to recognize the drama as an educational influence, to show a genuine interest in the stage as a factor in life which must be accepted and not ignored by intelligent people.
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