Show dead romeo protested one alexander manager of a glas gow theater who was also a very bad actor when he had become an old man was playing the part of romeo one night the juliet being a young girl after swallowing the poison he was lying dead when the grotesqueness of the situation evoked applause from the gallery alick the name by which he was universally known felt this was meant tor mockery rising to his feet he came to the front of the stage and said you think I 1 can t play romeo but I 1 can play romeo I 1 have played it before naming some people of distinction and I 1 shall play it again he then lay down and died a second time |