SOME THEATRICAL BY-PLAY.
A very weak tenor in Dublin singing feebly, caused one of the gods to about to an acquaintance across the gallery, “Corney, what noise is that ? ” “ Bedad,” said Corney. “ I believe its the gas whistlin’ in the pipe.” In the same lively city, a late mayor gave bis patronage, and was hailed with “a cheer for the ex-mayor! ” When quiet was restored, a voice called out, “Now, boys, a cheer for the Double X Mayor! ” (Mr Guinness, the great brewer, was the gentleman then filling the civic chair.) A “Sir William Fondlove,” in “The Lovechase,” summing up his personal advantages, says, conceitedly enough: “I’m every atom what a man should be.” A man slightly lame was playing the part, when at this point a voice from the pit cried, “ Barring the gamey leg, Freddy.” On an “lago,” who was disfigured by a frightful obliquity of vision, saying to “Othello,” “Wear your eye thus,” one of the spectators unkindly remarked, “He can’t, you fool! he hasn’t learned to squint.” —“ Chambers’ Journal.”
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1765, 16 October 1879, Page 2
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173SOME THEATRICAL BY-PLAY. Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1765, 16 October 1879, Page 2
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