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Show Actor Badly Rattled A young man had to take part In some amateur theatricals. His part was quite a minor one and there was teally not a great deal for him to do or say. After the shooting scene the young ; man had to enter the wings and say: ' "Hark ! 'Tis the pistol !" Now. during -ehearsals a real pistol was never used, and the youth, on receiving re-ceiving his cue. walked in anil performed per-formed his part quite efficiently. On the opening night, however, a real pistol was substituted for the cue.J and this apparently took the young man by surprise, for ns the pistol went off he rushed on and gasped: "Ye gods! What on earth was that 7" j 1 |