Show coleman with macready macready had been advertised for many weeks he was a star whose advent invariably filled the company with dread on account of hla hia brusque behaviour coleman had acted with him previously and informed the company a few days before the arrival of the great mall man that lie he was on intimate terms with him and that macready thou thought glit gilt very highly of his coie Cole moans roans attainments tain tall ments oa the arrival of the london star the e company on tile hie tiptoe of expectation thronged thron ged tiie the wings and stage to see seo tile tho crept greet ins n 16 between tween the tho patron and his hb PO toge tege I 1 you remember hie me said I 1 mr co coleman leman ieman going ups up r confidently with outstretched hands no sir replied macready coldly why I 1 had iad the ho lionor nor or of playing lago to your othello at bath last year do you remember now ve yoi sir lre irl f good li heavens eav e ns I 1 shall never forget you 11 macready once met an actor by the name of fort who like coleman spoke larg largely ely of dav navor favor or received from the tragedian the rest of the company complained of Macre adys adya z insolent and grumbling propensities as they had appeared when they had met him he never uttered an unkind word tome toine said fort 1 I played the rounder of nil all the second parts to him zago rago lago vilric macduff ac and not a syllable of fault finding ever passed his lips he had a first class opinion of me I 1 know this was of course highly satisfactory to all parties and more especially pec lally ally to the stage manager ma nager on whom devolved the task of I casting the pieces in a way that would not only be canduci conducive to their being well received by the audience but agreeable to the london star the morning arrived macready stalked bd on the stage stag i e tild th e prompter placed a chair nor for him at the prompt table and macready lyla lyia cready ente entered red at once into a conversation with the stage manager how are the pieces cast asked bia Bla macready cready the stage manager began to turn over his riera papers and hurriedly placed one or two thin narrow slips beneath the eye of the great man these are some of the casts he said nol N 0 no said macready Ara cready impatiently in pushing them from him pm im not particular as to who play the minor characters but I 1 should like to know who is my lago iago ulric macduff ac 1 the stage managers face brightened there I 1 think we can please you W we e have a gentleman you have played with before 12 groh gloh oh indeed where did I 1 meet him icat at bristol at bristol when two years ago bring my book of engagements said sald macready to hi his attendant agent the volume was produced Cc bristol two years ago mug mus mused ed macready as he turned the tile pages why he said starting suddenly up as a his eye fixed upon the entry it was wa the very worst company I 1 ever performed with fort fort rort fort Is he mf my second roared the tra tragedian edian edlan certainly replied the manager r oh heaven help me answered macready striding up and down the stage why why said the other following him he said he was a favorite of yours A favorite cc yes he be said that while you fo found und fault with everybody else you oudia did not once nind find fault with him lm with him no with the others othera there was iome tome HOPE norn of doing good but with him by heavens there waa was none amal the arcadian |