AN INDIGNANT ACTOR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 234, 10 February 1880, Page 3

AN INDIGNANT ACTOR.

A late issue of the London Era contains the most amusing letter we hav Seen for a long time. That journal, commenting on the performance of a Miss Nevara, at Margate, praised her veryhighly, but there was a but in the butter. u Her part, trying as it was, was played with great ability. the lady’s appearance was not much In he ■ favour, but this was fully com nsab d for by her refined elocution, j r true perception of the character,” and a number of other virtues. Her iusb nd Ywrites to the Era —“ Your issi of last Week contains a false anti mos malicious Tibet upon my wife, Mip.s Nevi.fa. You say that the lady’s appearance was not much in her favor, than which a more utter falsehood was never printed, There is not a shadow of excuse for such a sham'less allegation. On the contrary, I (who was sitting in the stalls) heard the people in the pit draw their breaths and say.‘ Is she not beautiful ?’ Others said,‘She is just like an angel,’ To do as you have done is to inquire Miss Nevara’s prospects iti her profession most seriously, and entitles her to claim very heavy damages from you. I call upon ycU therefore to give up the name of this most cowardly and most malicious slahder'cr, and on Wednesday I shall come to London and instruct my solicitors. The jury have only to look into the face of Miss Nevara in order to see—stamped in every line of it—beauty of a very high order, aud talent such as In s not been seen on the stage since the days of Mrs Siddons. Ask Mr Wills, dramatic author, 16th Avenue, and 16 Fulhara-road, what he thinks of her appearance? And he will tell you that he could have got her in the Royal Theatre, but that she was too beautiful for the manageress to permit of it. As we waits: in London, and as we do so here, men and - omen turn round and stare at Miss Nevara. . . . She has eyes just like a gazelle, and a natural color just like that of a peach, and I (who earned eff the prize for anatomy in the University of Edinburgh) tell you that 1 have never seen so splendidly porporTiohed a figure. Ask Mr John Ryder what he thinks ; and ask him, also, whether he knows any one who will less tamely submit to an act of injustice than will tie grand-nephew of the late Joseph Hume, M.P. P.S.—I forward thr* e newspapers, not one of which dares to say what >ou have done,” Did -the genius of Dickens himself conceive anything so droll as this ? And if it had done so, would it not have been pronounced extravaj. •it and exaggerated 7 To tho grand-nephew of the late Joseph liume. M.P., 1 am sure our readers will acknowledge a debt of gratitude. A& a specimen c»f indignant letter-wr.ting composition beats that of the would not live in the Cromwell road all to’ nothing. It is not the immense number of fools that strikes one so much as the immense size of them.