Show I C I IBy I I By J BAU BAUER R I I General Manager Valley Volley Music Hall I Stage annals show that the towering actor of Covent Covent Cov Cov- ent Garden and Drury Lane Charles Macready was too ready with his negative answer Last week it was noted how he turned I down Charles Dickens an and his bis hia friend Forster when they consulted him on the practicability of dramatizing nog ing Oliver was classic tragedian was performing performing at the Birmingham Theatre in Au August 1823 One night he e ej j ha left feR the playhouse s after playing the title tide role i in in Proceeding on ont t to his hia lodgings he approached apt ap ap- t t preached small cottage m an times b surrounded by a I r of 01 people eager to look on but unwilling k J. J cry of f distress was beard nI f bes 4 W within thin He in in- 1 I threw off his coat anti t and with the theof j la of 01 a harlequin e I into the pour parlour jW Dit w. w lIe He was out again in carrying carrying an an- anin in in- tad fait in m fua hi arms and LId pre- pre BC the little cl child Jd to toM toito ill M ito s other who was in such an an a y at tahe she could not Dot speak aft The hat hai t and waist waist- coati coat of oJ th th adventurous hero were wera r gone ne and he darted the he crowd ashe as asbe the be he was towards hi his ings No a one den the sane Mine of tb then uan who had hadBO so BO ri risked ed his life A pecuniary reward of considerable considerable con con- 1 am amount was offered offered of of- to the to-the the unknown by a committee committe of gentlemen A circumstance occurred which brought his forward against himself a poor fellow was apprehended selling a handsome coat in inthe inthe inthe the sleeve of which was written Macready's name He was sent for by the po police Ii c e magic magistrates and identified the coat stolen from him at the fire They Tb now now lauded his modesty more than his courage and the thunderous applause greeting him jn et his hie reappearance reappearance re reap I at the th theatre tre must have been the most grateful tribute to a feeling heart Mr Macready's Macready goodness did not stop there As M was the custom in those days he be played a performance t the h e entire proceeds of which accrued to his benefit benefit bene bene- fit This was a complete sell out He received in an J Je er a bank banknote banknote anonymous note 0 of f ten ten pounds as u. u a tribute to his humanity and courage in D re resetting rescuing the cottagers cottager's daughter the lames flames ames The actor instantly called U upon p 0 n the Jt e a unfortunate couple w who who O had lost Host their all in hi the re and presented present present- ed them with that sum saying nr have peen fran een only I the mean interment instrument in D the hand of God in procuring it for ya you yoa u I |