HIS ANSWER SUCCEEDED.
An actor now famous made his first appearance on the stage in a provincial city. He was young’ and nervous, and failed dismally in the part he was trying to present, and soon found himself the target for an assortment of disagreeable bric-a-brac. One of his disgusted auditors flung a cabbage-head at him. As it fell on the stage the actor picked it up and stepped forward to the footlights. He raised his hand to command silence, and pointing to the cabbage, said : £ Ladies and gentlemen, I expected to please you with my acting ; but I confess I did not expect that anyone in the audience would lose his head over it.’ He was allowed to proceed without further molestation.
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 24, 8 September 1894, Page 11
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123HIS ANSWER SUCCEEDED. Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 24, 8 September 1894, Page 11
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