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Updated: May 31, 2025
"We'll now find out where your charming Kitty is," Hillard said, breaking the seal. But they didn't. On the contrary, the writer hadn't the slightest idea where the play-actors were or had gone. They had opened a two weeks' engagement at the Teatro Quirino. There had been a good house on the opening night; the remainder of the week did not show the sale of a hundred tickets.
"There now I have got 'em all endways nicely!" "What's the woman like? Just say, and I can tell in a moment if 'tis meant for one I've in mind." "My why 'tis dressed just as SHE dressed when she sat in the front seat at the time the play-actors came to the Town Hall!" Lucetta started to her feet, and almost at the instant the door of the room was quickly and softly opened.
In turning over the leaves of divers old periodicals in search of the "Religion of Actors," I accidentally and unexpectedly found an article by Charles Lamb entitled, "On the Custom of Hissing at the Theatres, with some Account of a Club of Damned Authors." Lamb, we know, was a great lover of the drama, a true patron and admirer of playwrights and play-actors.
With a dramatic gesture which was perfectly consistent with her character, she drew from her bosom a few limp green leaves, and, holding them out at arm's length, said in her quick vivid way, and in the queer pronunciation of her old life, which she fell into when unduly excited: "That's the poison plant you said would kill me. I'll go with the play-actors, or I'll eat this and die here.
This final scene, what justice, that it should be a mean waste, the wreck of silly pleasure-grounds, long forgotten, and now used only by grotesque play-actors. He must die, in both action and setting, without dignity. It was some comfort, he became aware, to find that the place was fairly private.
The girl paused and looked away to the river as if she saw it all again, and then added in a burst of confidence: "Do you know, I mean to be an actress some day, when mamma will let me." "Play-actors are wicked," said Phil, in a tone of decision; "our minister says so, and my uncle says so." "Fudge!" returned Celia. "Much they know about it. Did Alice say so?"
The wandering Jew, if he ever existed, did not lead such a rambling life as I do. We get at last to be like the roving play-actors, who have neither hearth nor home, and thus we pass through the world, playing our bloody tragedies, with the wailings of our subjects for chorus. When will it end?" "When your majesty has subdued all your enemies."
In the interests of playwriters and play-actors, I wish to see the playgoer our dramatic lawgiver be educated; and I think this might be done by means of a "Royal Dramatic Academy."
These players are not to be confounded with the play-actors whom the Puritans denounced, nor with those trained to the profession in the French capital. In the United States and in England we are born to enter upon any avocation, thank Heaven! without training for it.
However, the prevailing opinion among the wise seems to be that the Northern States will be obliged to give up the tariff, as the only means of preserving the Union; and if matters come to a peaceable settlement, we shall proceed in February to Charleston; if not, South Carolina will have other things to think of besides plays and play-actors.
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