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Lewes was fond of talking about acting and actors, and in telling stories of celebrated theatrical personages, would imitate half involuntarily perhaps their voice and manner. I remember especially his doing this with reference to Macready. Both of them loved music extremely.
I hardly wish to revive a very painful matter: on the other hand, as I have said; my play subsists, and is as open to praise or blame as it was forty-one years ago: is it necessary to search out what somebody or other, not improbably a jealous adherent of Macready, 'the only organizer of theatrical victories', chose to say on the subject?
Hill, and an apology for this long letter, which however, when once induced to write it, I could not well shorten, believe me, Yours truly ever Robert Browning. I well remember Mr. Browning's telling me how, when he returned to the green-room, on that critical day, he drove his hat more firmly on to his head, and said to Macready, 'I beg pardon, sir, but you have given the part to Mr.
I have scarcely met with a more high-bred man, or a more agreeable companion, than Charles Kemble. Indeed, were I called on to name the professional men I have known most distinguished for good breeding and manners, I should name our four tragedians, the two Kembles, Young, and Macready. Sir Francis Burdett dined here yesterday en famille, and we passed two very pleasant hours.
To him, evidently, the word act in a printed play meant chapter; the word scene meant section. In his early days he had gone occasionally to see a play, and in 1875 he went to see Irving in Hamlet and liked him better than Macready, whom he had seen in the part.
I was utterly abashed, but Mr. Macready, looking down with a very kindly smile, only answered: "Never mind! You are a very polite little girl, and you act very earnestly and speak very nicely." I was too much agitated to do anything but continue my headlong course to my dressing-room, but even in those short moments the strange attractiveness of his face impressed itself on my imagination.
It represented a most thrilling stage picture, while underneath, and in type scarcely a shade less pronounced than that devoted to the eminent comedian T. Macready Lane, appeared the announcement of the great emotional actress, Miss Beth Norvell, together with several quite flattering Western press notices.
Has not one also read similar descriptions of the triumphs of Hannah More, or of Johanna Baillie; cheered by enthusiastic audiences, while men shed tears.* *Mem. Hannah More, v.i. p.124. 'Julian' was the first of Miss Mitford's acted plays. It was brought out at Covent Garden in 1823, when she was thirty-six years old; Macready played the principal part.
Four years before the publication of 'Sordello' he had written one play, 'Strafford, of which the name sufficiently indicates the subject, which had been put upon the stage with some success by Macready; the forerunner of a noble series of poems in dramatic form, most conveniently mentioned here together, though not always in chronological order.
To be sure, there was an utter absence of stage-management, and all the 'traditions' were remarkable for their absence; but I fancy that the spirits of Siddons and Kemble, Macready and Garrick, looked down with kind approval upon these earnest young actors as they recited the matchless old words, moving to and fro in the quaint setting of trees and moonlight, with an orchestra of cooing doves and murmuring zephyrs.
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