TIE HUMORS OF A DUBLIN AUDIENCE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1682, 8 October 1887, Page 3

TIE HUMORS OF A DUBLIN AUDIENCE

. «. Mrs Kemble, m her ' Reminiscences,' cays: — "The humors of a Dublin audience, much as 1 had heard of them before going to Ireland, surprised and diverted me very much. The second night of our acting -there, as we were leaving tbe theatre by the private entrance, we found the carriage surrounded by a crowd eagerly waiting for our coming out. As soon as my father appeared there was a shout of ' Three cheerß f^r Misther Charges !' then came Dall, and ' Three cheers for Misthrees Charles !' then I, and "Three chters for Miss Fanny!' 1 Bedad, she looks well by gaslight !' exclaimed one of our admirers. ' Och, and bedad, she looks well by daylight, too !' retorted another, lhongh what his opportunity for forming that flattering opinion of the genuineness of my good looks had been I cannot imagine. What further remarks passed upon us I do not know, as we drove off laughing, and left onr friends vociferously cheering My father told us one day of his being followed up Sackvllle street by two beggar women, between whom the following dialogue passed, evidently with a -view to his edification : ' Onb, bnt he's on litigant man, Is Mhther Charles Kemble .' 1 An ' 'deed, so was his brother Mister John, thin — a moighty folne man ; and to see his demainour, puttln' his hand In his pocket and glvin' me sixpence, bate all the world.' Lord 0 , whose tall, lathy figure and prominent teeth were well known to the pauper population of Dublin, having told a tiresome old female beggar who w»b pursuing bim to 'go along,' received the pgreeab'o re joiner : 'Ah, go 'img wid yonr own self; ye're like an old comb— all back and teeth.' When I was acting Lady Townley, In the scone where her husband complains of her late hours and Bhe insolently retorts * I won't come home till four to-morrow morning,' and receives the startling reply with which Lord Townley leaveß her : ' Then madam, you shall never come home again,' I was apt to stand for a moment aghast at this threat ; and one night, during this pau-B of breathless display, one of my gall.sy auditors, thinking, I suppose, that I was Wanting m proper spirit not to make some rejoinder, exc* aimed 'Now, thin, Fannj?' which very nearly upset the gravity produced by my father's impressive exit both In me and m the audience."