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Updated: May 25, 2025
Three highly advertised "personalities" tried to weather out a veritable emaciation of drama, and the result was, of course, a foregone conclusion. Slowly but surely is knowledge being forced upon the deluded manager, and he is learning to appreciate the vital truth of the much battered Shakespearian quotation, "The play's the thing."
I've found something big!" Hahn had never seen the boy so excited. "Oh, shucks! No play's as good as that." "Play! It isn't a play." "Why, you young idiot, you said it was good! You said it was darned good! You don't mean to tell me " "Oh, that! That's all right. It's good or will be when you get through with it." "What you talking about then? Here, let's take one of these things with two horses.
"About this time," writes Cibber, telling of the play's presentation, "Jacobitism had lately exerted itself by the most unprovoked rebellion that our histories have handed down to us since the Norman Conquest; I therefore thought that to set the authors and principles of that desperate folly in a fair light, by allowing the mistaken consciences of some their best excuse, and by making the artful Pretenders to Conscience as ridiculous as they were ungratefully wicked, was a subject fit for the honest satire of comedy, and what might, if it succeeded, do honour to the stage by showing the valuable use of it.
Well, for something like fifteen years those guys of Sachigo have been doing and working; and now, to-day, they've jumped into the market with both feet. I haven't the full measure of things yet. But the play's a big thing. They're out for the game we've been playing. Say, they're combining every old mill we've left over. All the derelicts and moth-bounds.
He opened and emptied the table drawers, as if a hurried search had been made. Slipping the compromising jewels into his overcoat pocket, he turned about and faced the room like a stage manager judging of a play's setting.
One thing that incensed Chupin was that they loitered there, when one of them had a ticket for a box at the theatre in his pocket. "Idiots!" he growled; "they'll wait till the play's half over before they go in. And then they'll let the doors slam behind them for the express purpose of disturbing everybody. Fools, go!"
Abroad he had been a valiant first-nighter; but he learned presently that at home the house for a premiere was composed largely of people whose tickets came from the exposition of theatre "paper" throughout the week in their storefronts it was on Monday evening that they were paid off; and he found himself little disposed to join in judgment with a raft of small shop-keepers, until he recollected that a premiere was not a premiere, after all the play's footing having already been secured at some other place, at some other time, before some other audience.
"Iss, iss: can't stop no longer must be off to warn the Methodeys! 'Stablished Church first, but fair play's a jewel, say I." He rushed off inland towards High Lanes, where the meeting-house stood. Parson Babbage closed the book without finishing his sentence, and his audience scrambled out over the graves and forth upon the headland.
"Say next Wednesday, two hours after midnight." "Then that is settled. And now I'll square the old account agreed." He drew his check-book toward him again. But Henry slopped him. "Fair play's a jewel," said he smiling. "The moment you sacked me " "Say the Trades, not me." "Dr. Amboyne hired me, at six guineas a week, to inspect the works. So you owe me nothing; but to be true to me."
We imagine that many audiences at the Fulton Theater were astonished at the play's showing of sheer strength as acted drama. Possibly it might not interest the general public; probably it would be inadvisable to present it to them.
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