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Updated: June 22, 2025
The pretty and smart women and agreeable more or less good looking men who had chattered and laughed and made love in her drawing-rooms were chattering, laughing and making love in other houses at this very moment or they were at the theatre applauding some fashionable actor-manager.
In "Julius Caesar" he wanted to play Brutus. "That's the part for the actor," he said, "because it needs acting. But the actor-manager's part is Antony Antony scores all along the line. Now when the actor and actor-manager fight in a play, and when there is no part for you in it, I think it's wiser to leave it alone." Every one knows when the luck first began to turn against Henry Irving.
But, unlike the actor-manager, the old cabinetmaker had lived his philosophy, and a very gentle and tolerant philosophy it was. After she had looked her request for light upon what way she was to take, they sat silent, neither looking at the other, yet each seeing the other with the eye of the mind. She said: "I may not dare take it." "You won't have no choice," replied he.
A few years ago, when Antony and Cleopatra was reproduced at a London theatre by an eminent actor-manager, it was reported that his mind was much exercised over the lines referring to the flight of Pompey's galley: "The breese upon her, like a cow in June, Hoists sails and flies."
He had read portions of this play to his friends, who at last succeeded in driving Montague Ford, the popular actor-manager, to Hubert's door; and after hearing some few scenes he had offered a couple of hundred pounds in advance of fees for the completed manuscript. 'But when can I have the manuscript? said Ford, as he was about to leave.
Moncrief had left no perceptible trace on her; indeed she looked younger now than on that occasion, because she had been at the trouble of putting on an artificial complexion. Her careless refinement of manner was so different from the studied dignity and anxious courtesy of the actor-manager, that Lydia could hardly think of them as belonging to the same profession.
His fellow-guests were of divers types: a couple of peers and their womenkind, a popular actor-manager, two diplomats, and several military men of more or less note two of them, like the host, occupying high positions at the War Office. Such gatherings were of frequent occurrence at Hill Street.
"As honey a bear." "Good, then!" said Pinchas; "I shall not fail." The door closed upon him. In another moment it reopened a bit and he thrust his grinning face through the aperture. "Ten per cent. of the receipts!" he said with his cajoling digito-nasal gesture. "Certainly," rejoined the actor-manager briskly. "After paying the expenses ten per cent. of the receipts." "Thou wilt not forget?"
He was in the middle of his preparations when Harry Manders entered in a suit of light tweeds, clutching a flat-brimmed bowler hat in one hand and a leather-topped cane in the other. "'Mornin', Eric. Hullo, Phil! Sinister combination for a poor devil of an actor-manager author and agent. What's this you're givin' me? Well, only up to the top On my honour, boy, only up to the top!"
Mark had his vanities undoubtedly, but he would sooner have met an actor-manager than an earl; he would have spoken of his friendship with Dante had that been possible more glibly than of his friendship with the Duke. Call him a snob if you like, but not the worst kind of snob; a hanger-on, but to the skirts of Art, not Society; a climber, but in the neighbourhood of Parnassus, not Hay Hill.
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