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Show ONE ON SIB CHARLES. 0 e-s-HB- When Sir Charles Wyndham first played David Garrick In London Harry Hamilton, a playwright, perpetrated a bon mot that caught the fancy of the town. One afternoon, during the run of the piece, Wyndham was sitting in the corridor cor-ridor of the Garrick club, under Gar-rick's Gar-rick's portrait, in the Garrick chair, which is one ot the club's treasures, when Hamilton entered. He gazed upon Wyndham. then upon the portrait of Garrick, and then upon Wyndham again. "Charles," he said finally, "do you know that you are growing more like Garrick every day?" . "Do you think so?" returned the actor with gratification. "Very glad, I'm sure." "Yes, Indeed." proceeded Hamilton, thoughtfully, "and leu like him every night.- . ' ' ' .. |