The Nevada journal., 1856-12-26
McDERMorrs APPEARANcE

mas pfouuced parallel TO what was
exhibited at the theatre ON Monday
nights we are not at all dubious on the
point that Nevada never before saw
the like. Those who have seen Me
Dermott in his inimitable character of
Richard Three Eyes. as played at San
Francisco, Sacramento and Marysville.
may have some conception of the per-
formance we witnesseG but the fact is,
Mac outdid himself in his last great
attemptfn personating Richard.
A casual reader of Shakespeare would
be liable to fall into the opinion that the
misshapen Gloster was more of knave
than fool-Mac personates him directly
the reverse. Thus he starts out for
himself in new track, entirely original
and unique. But his idea of Richard is
not more new than his elocution, which
puts to blush all attempts at oratory
from the great twin masters of Greece
and Rome, down. 1t is something
deeper, emanating from the bowelary
regions, and on this occasion did><11ot
rise out of its source. The press of cir
cumstances may have had some in
huenee in the matterfprobably it did.
1t is singular how the reversion of the
the character of Richard produced a
corresponding change in the effect of
the piece. Ordinarily the phrase is,
''it took the house by Storm" but on
this occasion the actor himself was taken
seven times by storm of all the escu-
Tents known ~from Greenland's icy
mountains to India's coral strand, $tripe
and sausages Mrosca IN beStass. -
Before Gloster made his appea arance,
"expectation was on tip-toe~ Ashortly
afterward half the pit was in the same
fix, basting him with a force and pre-
cision hitherto unknown in the science
of projectile propulsion. Richard re-
tired before completing his first soliloquy
in Scene II of the first Act, but soon re-
appeared, and with a 5scowling brow
worthy of the veritable Plantagenet
declared he would not stand such abuse.
Warwick came before the curtain, gave
his earnest opinion that Roscius himself
could not play under such a pressof cir
cumstances, and begged the audience to
allow the thing to proceed. Mac also
peremptorily refused to come again upon
the stage unless no ~missiles" were
thrown. W.
~tgaia the curtain. liftedIon scene HI
King Henry receives severe poke in
the ribs, from Gloster, luckily with a
pointless sword, and dies-to all appear
aGces. A shower of cabbages, potatoes,
eggs and other edibles, aimed at the
butcherer, had the effect to show the
King was only playing possum, being
quickly restored to life and locomotion.
The curtain fell-Warwick came out
and apologized for his too sudden resur-
rection, and again, after moment, up
went the rag The play proceeded.
Gloster presents his, sword to Lady Anne
in Xct II, Scene l. , She takes it, say
ing, "What shall say or DO 2" XIII
him! kill him Cd -l-a=rin4, kill
him - shouted a hundred impatient
fellows, wishing to witness something
more like tragedy. Lady Anne cellars
de kitchen" soon, and Gloster catches it
all over in a terrific volley of garden
sass, knocking off his crown and making
unseemly spots on his toggery.
The play proceeds. Gloster shouts
to Buckingham, "Chop off his head p
when vegetable storm Nu.f caused a
precipitate retreat, not, however, with
out palpable hit-in the eye of the
deformed Duke.
The curtain again rose, after some
preliminaries, such as laying in another
stock of produce, ,-aee., but the play pro-
ceeded no farther than where the
Rrinces leave for the Tower, in the first
Scene in the third Net, when another
stampede ensucd, effected by the com
bined agency of squirt-guns, tripe, sau-
sages, pumpkins, Ne~-- 5 os,~d
A tornado of packages of -four, cay
enne, and the old articles of offense, for
the sixth time pelted the luckless Clos
ter from the stage, as soon as the curtain
rose on Scene Hof the same ,Xct. The
drop here fell, not to rise till after al
interregnum lasting till Act V,Scene II
which ended in summary manner by
a liberal supply of the raw produce
Down came the drop, and out came
Warwick, to say that the affair woulf