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Updated: June 14, 2025
"How goes it?" said Edward Henry, curtly, as they drove down to the Grand Babylon Hotel now Edward Henry's regular headquarters in London. Said Mr. Marrier: "I suppose you've seen another of 'em's got a knighthood?" "No," said Edward Henry. "Who?" He knew that by "'em" Mr. Marrier meant the great race of actor-managers. "Gerald Pompey.
Now, it may be observed that in most of his tragedies, though not guilty of writing "star" parts, Shakespeare, himself an actor, took very great pains to create "fat" acting parts, and the actor-managers of the eighteenth century were careful that, in the mutilated versions which they presented, these parts did not shrink in relative importance.
The audience at the Society Theatre is a special one; as at the plays in which the favourite actor-managers and jeunes premiers perform there are always far more women than men, at this theatre there are always far more men than women. The stage box opposite our friends was filled with a party of about ten men. 'It looks like a jury, said Edith.
What Signor Borsa calls the "restaurateurs-proprietors," and also the actor-managers with a few exceptions may hold aloof, but Mr Shaw has brought to the theatres a new public, and taken a good many of the old as well.
Mortal men are liable to motor accidents; even kings' cars have backfired; but it seems strange that actor-managers are not specially exempt from these occurrences. Mr Levinski was not only angry; he was also a little shocked. When an actor-manager has to walk two miles to the nearest town on a winter evening one may be pardoned a doubt as to whether all is quite right with the world.
The writing of the play and, perhaps, its refusal by all the actor-managers of the town had traced a tiny line at each corner of his mobile mouth. The third daughter of the London clergyman his sentiment for her had taught his hand the slightly episcopal gesture which was so admired at the Lambeth Palace Garden Party in the summer of 1892.
The fact that so many theatres are in the hands of actor-managers is one reason why these phrases are important, for the actor-manager is compelled very often to choose or refuse a player on the strength of hearsay testimony: ours is hearsay evidence in the most accessible form, and even the managers have some belief in the soundness of the judgment of several of us.
But, bless you, that was nearly five years ago. Each morning now, among the usual pile of notes on my plate from duchesses, publishers, money-lenders, actor-managers and what-not, I find, likely enough, an envelope in Margery's own handwriting.
Sincerity does not necessarily exclude heroic characters, but it does exclude those mock heroics which actor-managers have been known to prefer not to real heroics, perhaps, but to simple and sound studies of character. Why is the Censorship against it?
Tonight he seemed to have fallen a victim to that spirit of ambition which intermittently attacks actor-managers of his class, expressing itself in an attempt to prove that, having established themselves securely as light comedians, they can, like the lady reciter, turn right around and be serious.
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