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On Wednesdays there would be a dinner at six o'clock, served without pretence or culinary assistance from the pastry-cook outside even the ices were prepared at home. To these dinners any distinguished strangers who were passing through the city were sure to be invited. Malachi in his time had served many famous men Charles Dickens, Ole Bull, Macready, and once the great Mr.
The great tragedian seems not to have liked her with any cordiality; but he gives a pleasant account of a certain supper-party in honour of 'Ion' at which she is present, and during which she asks Macready if he will not now bring out her tragedy. The tragedian does not answer, but Wordsworth, sitting by, says, 'Ay, keep him to it. Besides the 'Life of Miss Mitford' by Messrs.
He was a good old port and whisky drinker, but he could carry his liquor like a Regency man. He was a walking history of the stage. "Yes, my dear," he used to say to me, "I was in the original cast of the first performance of 'The Lady of Lyons, which Lord Lytton gave Macready as a present, and I was the original François when 'Richelieu' was produced.
Yet he did what he could and insisted that Browning should go with him to the "Sunday evenings" at Barry Cornwall's. There Browning met Leigh Hunt, Monckton Milnes and Dickens. Then there were dinner-parties at Sergeant Talfourd's, where he got acquainted with Wordsworth, Walter Savage Landor and Macready. Macready impressed him greatly and he impressed Macready.
Macready, the actor, wrote of him: "He looks and speaks more like a young poet than any one I have ever seen."
Mr. Macready revived Massinger's fine play with considerable success, but both the matter and the manner of our dramatic ancestors is too robust for the audiences of our day, who nevertheless will go and see "Diane de Lys," by a French company of actors, without wincing. Of Mrs. Siddons's Mrs.
Anderson: it was solely through the admirable loyalty of the two former that . . . a play . . . deprived of every advantage, in the way of scenery, dresses, and rehearsing proved what Macready himself declared it to be 'a complete success'. So he sent a servant to tell me, 'in case there was a call for the author at the end of the act' to which I replied that the author had been too sick and sorry at the whole treatment of his play to do any such thing.
I should think not, says the serjeant. "Ion" is very different. The Talfourd household, as it is described by Mr. Lestrange, is a droll mixture of poetry and prose, of hospitality, of untidiness, of petulance, of most genuine kindness and most genuine human nature. There are also many mentions of Miss Mitford in the 'Life of Macready' by Sir F. Pollock.
The Announcement of his Appearance at the Astor-place Opera House, and Forrest at the Broadway Theatre the same Night posted Side by Side. Bowery Boys crowd the Opera House. Anxiety of the Managers. Consultations and Dramatic Scenes behind the Curtain. Stamping of the People. Scene on raising the Curtain. Stormy Reception of Macready. Howled down. Mrs.
The famous Macready, as he retired from the stage, wrote: "None of my children, with my consent under any pretense, shall ever enter the theater, nor shall they have any visiting connection with play actors or actresses." Dr.
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