The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-08

NtAAtAAANo -'AeShAAiAs a nDlNlltllu dCtOl III
his day, and great favorite in Dublin,
is the subject of many witty stories.
Like many great actors, he was very dog
matte, and possessed of a very irritable
temper. AT rehearsal he is stated to
have been very particular, and was very
tenacious about actors throwing in words
of their own. In rehearsing his comedy
of Love la Mode" one morning, an
actor who was playing Squire Groom,
said something which he thought smart.
"Hoy! Hoyr said Macklin, whats
that?'
"On," replied the actor, cts little
of my nonsensep'
aye" replied Macklin "but l think
my nonsense is better than yours; so
keep to that, if you please; STRIP -
D. Okeefe says "that Macklin was full
Of information, had a powerful mind,
and his conversation gave me great
pleasure. ! often contradicted him, pur-
posely to draw him out. This few. dared
to do, except myself; but ! was his IA
vOrite Of all whom he made happy byhis
society His conversation among Young
people was perfectly moral, and always
tended TO make us better; he was, in my
opinion, as to intellect, very shining
character, and in all instances knew him
to be very worthy man, but a great sit
ter-up at nights for the sake of convcrsa-
tion. Many a morning sun has pceped
into our convivial parties. He was then
between seventy and eighty years of
age"
Dawson, the Dublin manager, put his
pen over some smart things in my little
piece of collins Welcome" On Mack
lin remarking that Dawson had wit, and
cut good jokes himself, ] replied in a
couplet:
Dawson has wit, and cuts good Jokes no doubt
lie finds them in play-and cuts them out.
Macklin repeated this in high glee to |
Dawson, who restored my Jokes
DUBLIN COLLEGE LIFE.
Some amusing stories of college life in |
Dublin are told and how the collegians |
( lived. They each had a cellar book, as |
it was called; they were in the habit Of |
! lending these to their friends, as it gave |
them the privilege of entering the |
college cellar and obtaining the fare pro-
! vided there. O'Keefe described his |
visit. He took two companions with |
! him and awaited the ringing of the bell,
at o'clock, the notice that the cellar
was open. The place stretched under
4 the great dining-hall of the college in
| low arches, extending long way, and
| containing large butts Of ale, regularly
arranged. Close by the entrance, on the
left hand, he describes box, like an old
| fashioned pulpit, in which sat the butler
| You delivered to him the book. and he
gave orders to his attendants, and then
you were led to a large table On it was
a large iron candlestick containing a wax
candle rs thick as a mans wrist, and
silver cup or vase with two handles, con-
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college ale called Lemon October" was
placed before you. \ wicker basket was
also brought around, full of small loaves,
called "manchets." O'Keefe goes into
raptures over the quality of this bread
and ale, and calls it a delicious regale.
He also takes a peep into the kitchen,
and saw five or six spits, one over the
other, and of great length, full of legs of
mutton roasting. And the notice for
dinner to be served was given by y man
bawling up under the cupola: "The I
Deans in the hall; the Deans in the
hall" o..
DUEIING.
Dueling was in constant practice in
O'kcefc's time in ireland, and many COM
ical stories are told of the absurd way in ]
which some Of the quaTrels were made i
up, and how the lood-thirsty combatants
became good friends again over bottle :
of wine, although it sometimes resulted !
differently, the favorite mode of settling {
an affair Of honor being to fire across a
table with horsc-pistols, large enough to
blow a mans head off =
FOOTE.
Foote must have been an excellent
comcdian he made great reputation in
Dublin. He wrote piece called " Piety
in Pattrns' which had a great run. Its
object was to ridicule the sentimental !
comedies. which where then coming into
fashion. The famous Mrs. Jewel PLAYED
in it, and the main humoT of the piece .,
was in its grandiloquent sentences and
high-fOwn words. 1t was really a bur
lesque on forced sentiment. =,
Tom Sheridan, Moody Henderson and ,,
Richard Daily were among the wits of the
Irish stage at the time and many are the. :
good stories told of them and their cx- .
pIoits. In O'Kcefcs later days he be |
came almost blind, and he tells Of many I
of the scrapes it led him into, with true
Irish humor. On one occasion, he says: !
81 was with my brother Daniel in a read
ing room at Margate, and wishing to get :
some news by the aid of his optics, and ,
having Just sight enough to see the white
papers on the green table, | hastily got
one, and, handing it to my brother, said,
read that to me- \ loud and surlcy Y
voice the same instant came to my ear l
from lips not two feet from me: What u
the devil, SIR, do you mean by snatching
that newspaper out Of my hands; | u
haven't done with it, | was too CON
founded to apologize, and walked off, ;
leaving my brother to explain the state =
of my sight which led me into the mis-
take of seeing only the newspaper, and :
not the gentleman who was reading it." y
On another occasion he relates that. y
according to the privilege of an author II
franking Il friend, his brother once asked .
him for an order to the theatre. He re- Il
fused him, Us he had already given away II
more than was proper. The same even d
ing he unexpectedly went himself, and u
gentleman coming in and standing near Il
him, he thought he recognized his e.
brother and said: GLOW the deuce did d
YOU get in?' \ strange voice answered: '
g How did | get in, sir? Why, with my a
money. How did you get in?' II
'' Another gentleman" he adds, Eek C
planned it, and saved me from pistol tt
work, either on the stand of Clontarf or II
behind Montague house, or in a little IL
tavern room across a table, or any other tC
west Of Mother Red Caps" c'
MICHAEL KELLY.
Kelly was a coJemPorary of O'Keefe's, i
also 4 Dublin boy, and one of the finest 4
musicians that city has ever produced. Il
He was the oldest of fourteen children. "
who were all musical, and when only 4
three years old his father used to daily l.
place him on the table aftcrd dinner. tohowI | =
song on " Love in Village"
There WAS Jolly miller,) for the enter
tainmont of the company. vt seven he Il
began to study music under a musician Il
named Moreland, a genius. but a great a
drunkard; afterwards he was the pupil I
Of the famous DIR. Arne; he afterwards a
studied in Italy, and made his debut in h
Florence, in I'll Francese en- Italia and "
he atterward sang at the opera house in b
Niennas a
His life was full of adventure, which IL
Is narrated with racy humor In his W
early Italian experiences ne states that W