Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-09-24
Actors and Auditors. I
J a singilaf phase of tha tIlaatriea

A singdlhr phase of tie tt1eatricaI ieS.
istence is the e passionate 8 ifondness
evinced by ibsrs of that 5callin9- for
attending enter tainmneeants lent tI,emssiyss S,Si
Apostles of most :ot hest t,fofessit,ng ai53d
tradea gladly eink the shop when theY
are fairly put oft. The lawyer off duty
does not frequent the courts. Tho iedI
itoriis not continually hanging around
other Offices when not, confined in his
own. Doctors do not rest themselves
by visiting The patients of other doctors.
But the actor or sctress, Of high or low
degree, when not directly busted on the
glaring side of the footlights, is surge 60
be found In the auditorium. B The mosE
persistent theatre oers in the world are
theatrical people. s.. ''i'as { ''7Ss'' :
Mrs. Chanfrau reached aOhfcag ga tone
AFTERNOON IHBI week. Il She mud Srayeied
straight throagh from New York, aud,
after twenty four hours rest. was ai'st to
push on to San Francisco. But shs was
one OF McYicker's audience that night.
and sat the play through. Her business
manager passed all OF The sitiiet ne eveninp
at the Academy. Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
Adams arriyed jim that city three or four
days before that gentieman's engage. !.
mentiwas to begin. They Attended the
theatres every night and matineeI and
were among the most eager and atten-
tive of the spectators. ~ 'lHShfi : p
IL is 60 always, every where, Z! The wife
OF O theasrlcal manager may he seen in
the audience night after night. month
IN and month out. A shoemaker's wife
does not follow her liegeb to his shop
every day. Clergymen'a wives are not
regular companions of their husbands
on pastoral callsTit might be prudent
If they were. The actor of repnlar
company, when not cast for duty. csn
invariably be seen in the front OF the
house or that of rival establishment.
And the puzzle OF it all 'is, they grow as as
excited, often, over the fortunes of the
players as the greenest of the auditors,
They gutfaw with the comedian. soowi
with the villain, and rub away d Sheen.
ish tear two at the. Woes, of. the, dis
traoted maiden. One would think that
the work3on the stage woinld seem the
dreariest sof routine to them. but iit
does not, else are they better actors
when looking at q play than when per.
forming IN it. tssl
Notabls performers never lose an, ION.
portunlty of witnessing their great CO.
Temperatures. Booth is q afreu1ent via.
itor to the theatre when Fechter and
Adams play. Mrs. Bowers chases after
Charlotte Cnshman every chance she
can get. Salvini was an earnest student
OF Booths Iago in Baltimore. and nm.
plauded unstintediy. Indeed. the
most lavish, as we'll as the most dis
criminating of applause comes from
professional actors and actresses in the
audience. The numbskulls who are
always rafting their brogans and per-
cusslng their paws inopportunely, are
never members of the dramatic or oper-
alto calling. You do not hear actors haw-
haw when Joe Jefferson, in plaintiye
broken English, wonders if Hdere ia
anybody alive round here?" CLARA
Louise Kellogg waits until her sister
song bird shas finished her aria before
breaking in with applause.
This love of attending places of
amusement, on the part of amusement
people. is one of the best proofs of the
permanent attractiveness of the stage.
They never tire of seat in the audi.
ence, fully as they understand the nm.
reality of all that is enactinp on the
boards. How, then, can the casual
theatre.frequenters ever weary of the
entertainments which, to them. have so
much of variability? Critics may af-
feet 5lase, and wonder at the verdancy
which can eternally accept the crude
sham as real. But what are they going
to do with the lifelong disciples Of the
calling. who make as enthusiastic Spec
tators as the rawest pumpkin in the
audience2
The Real Chinaman.
Bret Harte, in describing Chinaman
in n Ekafnln in Sn,i h,,o ~, .,s..., ~ Z