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Reggie has joined his Sissie on the music-hall stage; and all those who have witnessed his immensely popular performance of the Drunken Gentleman before the Bow Street Police Court acknowledge without reserve that, after "failing for everything," he has dropped at last into his true vocation. His impersonation of the part is said to be "nature itself." I see no reason to doubt it.
Impersonation may be more easily achieved intellectually, requiring only keen observation and the power of imitation. Dramatic interpretation, on the other hand, deals mainly with the phase of human nature which is not exterior the interior force of the character. We would classify these two departments in this way, though in the highest dramatic work elements of both phases are combined.
"I am speaking of the kind of man who had made such mistakes, and he would end as I say. Few men, if any, would leave the world for the bandbox, shall I still say? without having a Nemesis." "But the Nemesis need not, as you say yourself, be inevitable. The person who holds the key of his life, the impersonation of his mistake " "His CRIMINAL mistake," Mrs.
Mary was always on the eve of laughing at these aristocratic recollections of her aunt; and to her credit be it said, she always restrained herself, though with great difficulty. She, so wildly brought up, without rule or guidance in feminine matters, could not be brought to comprehend that prim line-and-rule life, of which her aunt was the very impersonation.
Opinion is divided as to whether he were a real personage, or a mere impersonation, formed by the poetic fancy of a credulous people.
William of Orange, on the other hand, looked upon his young antagonist as the most brilliant impersonation which had yet been seen of the foul spirit of persecution.
Thompson was, in face and figure, in dress and speech, the very impersonation of vulgar and ostentatious wealth.
I was Don Juan too, and I was Tom Jones; but my most natural impersonation in those years was Tristram. The luxury of that champion's sorrows had a swooning sweetness of their own of which I never tired. Iseult meant nothing. I cared nothing for her. I was enamoured of the hero, and saw myself drenched in his passion.
He was a poor enough rogue himself, hustled and abused by everybody, an unsuccessful and shabby vagabond, notwithstanding his new fortune; but Jack was the glorified impersonation of cleverness and wickedness and triumph to Wodehouse.
To meet him in his books is one of the desirable experiences of contemporary literature, as to hear him speak is one of the desirable experiences of modern politics. Protest, daring, chivalry, the passion for the colour of life and the colour of words he is the impersonation of these things in a world that is muddling its way half-heartedly towards the Promised Land.
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