The Cotton Factory Times. — 1909-05-07 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

ACTORS SEIZED WITH ILLNESS.  Several instances have occurred of famous actors being seized with serious illnesses while perforniing on the stage. lho celebrated liklinund Keen, while playing the part cf Othello at Covent Garden, was cuddenly SIII4ILC7I with an illness, from which he never recovered. Hie last words, as he fell into the arms of his ton were, "I am dying; speak to them for mc, Charles...  Similarly,' the beautiful Peg Woffington, while acting as Rosalind in" As You Like It," was rendered speechless by a sudden attack of paralysis after repeating the words of the epilogue, " I'd kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me."  But Perhaps the most truly pathetic and intensely dramatic episode that has ever occurred on this boards of the stage was that enacted by the famous actress, Mrs. Montford, who was the subject of Gay's well-known ballad "Black-eyed Susan." After retiring from the stage the mind of this lady bad become unhinged by a love affair, and she had been confined in a lunatic asylum by her friends. One day, during a lucid interval, she asked the attendant what play was to be formed that evening, and was told Hamlet. In this play the part of Ophelia had been her greatest success, and the recollection must have stirred her frenzied mind to a strange resolution. With the cunning that insane people frequently possess she contrived to elude the care of her keepers, and escaping from the asylum niade her way to the theatre. Here Elie concealed herself on tho stage until the scene in which Ophelia enters in her mod state; ahe then pushed on the stage before the actress who had performed the previous part of the character could come on, and exhibited a more perfect representation of madness than the utmost exertions of the actor's art could effect. She was in truth mad Ophelia to the amazement of the performers as well asi the audience. The poor lady had, however, made her last effort; on quitting the stage she exclaimed, "It is all over," and allowed Arself to be conveyed back to her place of ceourity, where in a few ciays she died.  Hake sopkotiful at Billingsgate that the wholesale price is about a penny per lb. Seeing a pima on a garden wall at Holton, a pedlar took it, and was on Monday sent to gaol for fourteen clays. He said the temptation to take the purse was irresistible. It contained and had been temporarily placed there by the lady who lived at the house.  A burglary of an excep. &moocher was perpetrated on Monday morning by three foreigners at Thurston, a mansion situated on the extreme eitetern boundary of East Lothian. When surprised the burglars rode away on bicycles, but the pulioe followed in motor-oars, and csiiturod all three after an exciting chaise.  ...,„ Notice is at the Inner Temple of the diehermoot of Z7Vhyainaji Kriehnavarma, editor of the " Indian SoMologiet," the owner of India Home at Highate, and the author of letters to the " Tunes" which he advocated the murder of En.glialameu in India. A, Krishna...ma's meduel a dosorthed as " unworthy of a barrister," and he a accordingly dieharred. He has never practised in Ilkiglaad smeas he he a member of the Jan sevecal years ego