Show Actor Would Not Die Dutton Cook in his Book of the Play tells an American stage anecdote anec-dote of an English melodramatic actor act-or with the pseudonym of Bill Ship ton who enacting a British officer In the Early Life of Washington got so stupidly Intoxicated that when Miss Cuff who played the youthful hero had to fight and kill him In a duel Bill Shlpton wouldnt die he even said loudly on the stage that he wouldnt Mary Cuff fought on until she was ready to faint and after she had repeated re-peated his cue for dying which was Cowardly hired assassin for the fourteenth time he absolutely Jumped off the stage not even pretending tc be on tho point of death Our indlg nant citizens then chased him allover all-over the house and he only escaped by Jumping into the coffin which they bring on in Hamlet nom co and Richard |