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"Is that the way you feel about it?" "Yes." "Thanks, awfully," and with a defiant fling of the covers, Judy turned her face to the wall. When Judy Kean appeared at Chapel next morning she seemed serenely unconscious of the sensation she was creating.
The Montgomerys; the Paynes, Harry and Fred; nor should the name of "Old Billy" Payne be omitted. "Billy" Payne it was, it will be remembered, who, in 1833, helped, from the stage of Covent Garden, the dying Edmund Kean. Then there were the Marshalls, Harry and Joseph; Charles and Richard Stilt; and a very original and amusing Clown, Richard Flexmore, died August 20, 1860, aged 36.
Goethe presiding over the playhouse at Weimar, Euripides and Sophocles writing tragedies, the greatest genius of the English language acting in his own productions at the Globe Theatre, people like Siddons and Kean and Cushman and Macready illustrating this art with the resources of their fine intellects and great attainments, surely these need scarcely be mentioned, to relieve the drama from the reproach that some would put upon it, of puerility.
"And will you then allow us no actors of merit?" asked Vincent. "Mais oui! dans le genre comique, par exemple, votre buffo Kean met dix fois plus d'esprit et de drollerie dans ses roles que La Porte." "The impartial and profound judgment of Madame admits of no further discussion on this point," said I. "What does she think of the present state of our dramatic literature?"
Kean began the next scene, but it was of no use. He had to give in and send for us. Meanwhile old Ryder had been striding up and down the greenroom in a perfect fury. "Never mind, ducky!" he kept on saying to me; and it was really quite unnecessary, for "ducky" was just enjoying the noise and thinking it all capital fun. "Never mind!
Talma comes next in his regard as "the most finished artist of his time, not below Kean in his most energetic displays, and far above him in the refinement of his taste and the extent of his research equaling Kemble in dignity, unfettered by his stiffness and formality."
In the hands of Kean the play became like an exquisite performance on the violin. The long agony of one so gaily painted by nature's self, from his "tragic abdication" till the hour in which he Sluiced out his innocent soul thro' streams of blood,
In the end he took to presenting himself at the theatre in various stages of drunkenness, and on one unlucky night he practically settled his own fate by falling down on the stage after he had blundered over his lines a dozen times. The public saw little of him after that, for he had not the power of Kean, or Cooke, or Brooke. They all go the same way when they slip as Devine did.
She read "Rambouillet" on a passing station, and then the fact became clear to her that she was on the wrong train, going from Paris instead of towards it. "Rambouillet is at least twenty miles from Paris. Judy Kean, you idiot, you idiot, you idiot!"
The medal was a small silver one, and it bore the following inscription: And such is fame! It appears that Kean, always fond of excitement, had organized a tremendous pow-wow among these poor specimens of the red man, on his visit to Quebec. They adopted him, constituted him a chief of their tribe.
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