The late Charles Mathews userl to describe a scene "witnessed by himself in an American theatre down South. It was a mixed company of performers, black and white, a set of stage-dominoes, in fact, The play was "Hamlet," and the Prince of Denmark was performed by a curly -pated Sambo. All went fairly well until the actor came to the soliloquy, "To be, or not to be?" and then a demon of perversity or weariness entering the spectators, they demanded, with irresistible clamour, that the soliloquy should be dropped, and "Possum up a Gunitree" sung in its stead then and there.
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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 525, 29 May 1869, Page 3
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101Untitled Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 525, 29 May 1869, Page 3
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