The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-03
EMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1875.
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speak OF Inere were several, Why,
belonged to two. We meyer |
brought to light an actor, but we
succeeded SO far as to ruin more
than one lad who had brains |
enough to make a tradesman, till
we heated those brains and they
boiled all away.
The way we destroyed youth
was this: Of course nobody would
pay shilling at the door to see us
running wild among Shakespeare's
lines like pigs broken into a gar
den, so the expenses fell upon the
actors, and they paid according
to the value of the part each played.
Richard the Third cost puppy
two pounds; Richmond, fifteen
shillings; and so on; so that with
US, as in the big world, dignity
went by wealth, not merit. / re-
member this made me sore at the
time; still there are two sides to
everything: they say poverty ur-I
ges men to crime; mine saved me
from it. III could have afforded, )
would have murdered one or
two characters that have lived
with good regulations from Queen
Bess to Queen Victoria; but, as !
couldn't afford it, others that
could did it for me.
Well, in return for his cash
Richard, or Hamlet, or Othello
commanded tickets in proportion;
for the tickets were only gratui-
tous to the spectators.
Consequently, at night, each
important actor played not only
to q merciful audience, but a
large band of devoted friendly
spirits in, it, who came, not to
judge him, but expressly to carry
him through triumphant,-like an
election. Now when a vain, ig-
norant chap hears q lot of hands
clapping, he has not the sense to
say to himself "paid for" No, it
is applause, and applause stamps
his own secret opinion of himself.
He was off his balance before, and
now he tumbles heel over tip into
the notion that he is genius;
throws, his commercial prospects
after the two pounds that went IN
Richard or Beverly, and crosses
Waterloo Bridge spouting,
.tAfico for the shop and poplins base!
Counter, avaunti am his southern baDl
VIII fire the Thames"
Noodle, thus singing, goes ovel
the water. 4 But they won't have
him at the Surry or the Vic, 81
he takes to the country; and
while his money lasts, and he cal
pay the mismanager of a small
theater, he gets leave to play will
Richard and Hamlit. But whel
the money is gone, and he wants
to be paid for Richard IL Co., the,
laugh at him, and put him in hi
right place, and that is a utility
and perhaps ends a super;
when, if he had not been q cox
comb, he might have sold ribbo
like a man to his dying day.
We and our dramatic schoo
ruined more than one or two G
this sort by means of his vanit
in my young days.
My poverty saved me. Tn
conceit was here in vast abu
dance, but not the funds to intoz
icate myself with such choice lie
uors as Hamlet IL Co. Nothin
above old Gobbo five shillings
ever fell to my lot and by my Ia
emit.
When 1 had made and let o
fireworks for q few months,
thought 1 could make more as
rocket-master than a rocket-mal
l had saved q pound or tive
Most of my friends dissuaded N
from the attempt; but Paley said
"let him alone now; don't kee
him down; he is born to rise. l
risk q pound on him." So b
dint of several small loans, &C
the materials and made a set {
fireworks myself, and agree
with the keeper of some tea-gal
dens at Hampstead for the spo
At the appointed time, attende
by trusty band of friends, pU
them up; and, when had take
tolerable sum at the door, l Il
them all off.
But they did not all profit b
the permission. Some went, bU
others, whose supposed destins
ton was the sky, scared about a
high as the house, then returne
and forgot their wild nature, an
performed the Office of our house
hold fires upon the clothes of m
visitors; and some faithful spirits
like old domestics, would not leav
their master at any price, -Woul
not take their discharge. The
there was a row, and ! should hav
been mauled, but my guards rallie
round me and brought me o
with whole bones, and marche
back to London with me, quizzin
me and drinking at my expense
The publican refused to give m
my promised fee, and my loss b
ambition was twenty-eight shil
lings and my reputation,-if yo
could call that loss.
Was not l quizzed up and dow
the Seven Dials. Paley alone con
trived to stand out in my favol
Nonsense! a first attempt" sal
he; "they mostly fail. Don't 20
give in for those fools! I'll te
you a story. There was 3 cha
in PRISON. forget his name. H
lived in the old times a few huI
dred years ago. l can't iustl
say how many. He had failed,-
at something or other,-I don
know how many times, and tner
he was. Well, Jack, one day b
noticed a spider climbing up
laundering great slippery stone i
the wall. She got 3 little WAY
then down she fell; up again, aa
tries it on again; down agar
All! says the man you will neve
do it. But the spider was game
She got six falls, but, by George
the seventh trial she got up. 5
the gentleman says, "A man ough
to have as much heart as q spider
won't give in till the sovent
trial Bless you, long before tn
seventh he carried all before him
and got to be King of Englan
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