New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-23

very mnch upOn the flank of the animal INTO whicn
You dig It. [Laug hter.l There Is also great de''i
in that Sc -possesaed exemp0raneousn e-s WHICH
man carries III his pocket on sheet OF paper. ~
reminds one of the compliment which the iiishihnu
maid his own weapon, the shillelah, when ne salo,
It's n weapon which never u sses brf, bnt tneh IL
may he said tbat it applies itself directly 10
the he nj than To the heart. Langh6erI ! thinN
have a very capital theory Of what an aiter,dinner
speech should be. We have had some examples tnis
afternoon and have made a great many excellent
ones myself: but they were always on TIE way i"o,
and after bad made very poor one when WIS
on my egs. Laughter Ny caunan HaS p'el ,ne
con6lant of An amount Of humnr OF apt quotations.
and clever sayings winch You VIII mover A"o" anu
which yOu VIII never gu ces. ,. %
But something in what has been SAID by one OF
my countrymen recalls to my mind q mgt1er OF
Qrlvcr character. A. man who mas hFe9 II l,ao
life IN the country, to my shame De ~ s'llu i, ~,
not been habltuai theatre-soer came lVV ~
for the elder kean NV theatrical experience ocgdh
with Fanny Kemble i forget how many years ago.
but more than | care 10 rememner-an1 Tfconeo.
the IMPRESSION made up0n me bv her ana by h"r
father | was too your co DC critical; was you"k
enough 60 enjoy; but | remember that what re-
manned with me and what remains Win me
still OF what | heard AMI saw, ana espeelauy
with regard to Charles kemble, was the pei,
feet,on OF his art. IL was not ms Individual
character, stics-thougb. OF course, i rene nDer
man has lnded to the fact that at one time 10 was
Iticult for an actor 10 grt breakfast mnch more
Ia nave ue of red 70 hiD and that recalls 70 my
mind fhe touching words OF the great master oil
vonr -shakespeare-gh in one OF his sonnets
said:
0. FOR my sake do you with fortune chde'
The guilty goddess Of my narln VI geeuF'
Tfat Oid nor better Tor nv he pfoViuN -,
Than public means, winch puOilt niuhneIn III 'e''7'
Thence comes 70 that nv name fecelF Vi''N-'
And almost thence my nature Is sub0ueu
To VEar u works IN, Ike the dyers hand
"Cer.arnlv the consideration IN which the theat-
rica profession Il held has greatly even Nlthll
uv own recollection. IL has risen greatly since 'n
time when Adrienue Lec0uvreur was dcnleu DuiIa'
In tha. cousecrafed ground where raAes anu "c4ll-
reus could complete the corruption they hal began
on earth and This due 90 tie tact that u ls now
looked upon not only by the public m general Du'
by the members Of your profession, as mo az !.
10 - perfectly true that the stage ma often iebs
ifsaf / val NOS say 10 rhe democrat zltlon or
the puhIic but to things which | mink none
~ "a wouid altogether approve This, however l
fnrnlc has been due more To the fact that IL nOt
oulv holds up the mirror 10 nature but mat inc
srl ~ Is a mirror IN inch the public Use IL ren'c-
led linear AeaTl and the public itself Is to blame II
tue siag. rs ever degraded. lCheers.l IL mas Deeh
10 men of my profession. perhaps th1t the degada-
non has been due. more than 10 those VINO Itple-
sent their plays. They have interpreted pethAp7
I'm too literal q sense, even the famous saving OF
DRYDEN thab hc whO hives To Wrte must Wilte 10
live - :
4" Blu BEGAN with the Irishman'a weapon, ana
shall not forget that among Its oJner virtues ~ us
bTeyify and ~ in the list OF tOasts-whch IS 10 Io-
low caught che name of son or MN VINO was cel-
family the greatest poet though he wrote IN prose-
and who PERHAPS possessed the most Original inlHu
that America has gwen the wOrld' snail 9lI
sure. with your enure APPRECIATION, make way ioi
the next speaker"