| Show abend abena A bena bead yong vitas don platt piatt in his reminiscences of old actors relates the following story at 0 ry of mr dean bean father of julia juiia dean he knew know pretty well how it ought to be done but the old duffer cant act himself lord how I 1 did laugh at aimone night he was playing that funny old king to booths richard bichard one cold old night in bumm Buff buffalo malo ialo when booth stabbed hirthe awkward old dubber duffer fell flat on the register of the stage some devil of an actor seeing this ran down and told the man at the furnace that everybody was freezing on the stage to rush up the fires we who were in the secret watched the result first the dead ring king broke into a profuse perspiration while bichard richard was delivering his long soliloquy how the dead king did sweat but as the fire increased he began to squirm the audience was startled to see the body quiver and the legs give little post mortem kicks not in accordance with the text we could hear him muttering to richard bichard hurry up hurry up pm im roasting but richard richand continued rattling out his heavy thunder as slow and deliberate as if his royal royat highness was on a bed of roses at last when he growled out down down to hell and say I 1 sent thee thither 11 his departed majesty tyros rose eup up and walked off the stage rubbing his back as if he felt ridiculous to the utter amazement of the audience but booth was equal to the occasion striking an attitude he roared out can such things be and overcome us like a summer cloud without our special wonder dean got a black eye and broken nobe nose while attempting to kick the fireman |
