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Show PUT END TO AMBmON. I W. 8. Gilbert's Early Choice of the Stage Nipped In the Dud. At the early age of IS, according to tho author of a recent biography of Sir W. 8. Gilbert, the future dramatist showed his theatrical bias, to his owu Undoing. ICnraptured with n splendid performance per-formance of "The Corslcan Brothers" at tho Princess theater, thon under the management of Charles Kean, young Gilbert packed up a few clothes In a handbag and actually succeeded In making an entrance to the theater, with a view to going on the stago. Greatly elated nt rocelvlng the men-sngo men-sngo that Kean would Bee him In his room, tho boy lost courage when ho was face to face with tho great actor. "So you would like to go on the stago?" said Kenn, "Yes. sir," replied Jaster Ollbert trembling In every II in ft "Whafayour namoJ'Mi The boy's Ining'.natloifofalled him at a critical moment In its life. "Gilbert," "Gil-bert," he faltered, sowing refuge In tho truth. ' "Gilbert, Gilbert," reiterated Kean, with n sharp felance at the eni' barrassed boy. ''Are you the Bon ol ray old frlendwilllaru Gilbert?" "Yes." Kean tunned to an attendant "3h this young gentleman homo," sold h. Yoiuhjfc Companion. |