THE DISORDERLY GENTLEMAN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2044, 10 May 1890, Page 3

THE DISORDERLY GENTLEMAN.

Sothern, the well-known actor, wag a mo«t practical joker on or off the atage. One night he arranged with big brilliant manager Goodwin, whilst he was playing at the Globe Theatre; Boston, that at a certain point in the perfdrmance Goodwin should interrupt him, pronounce him a humbug as a humourist ard a stick as an actor, and that much brilliant repartee should flow therefrom to the mystifloation of the audience and the amusement of Messrs Sptfcern and Goodwin themselves. Goodwin entered heartily into the spirit of the joke and at the proper moment, dressed in full evening costume and somewhat digguised, he rose in one of the stage boxes, interrupted Sothern, called him a delusion and a snare, and wanted him to stop immediately. Sothern, who enjoyed it even more than Goodwin, replied Very smartly, and a rattling controversy followed, in which Spthern evidently bad the sympathy of the audience, imagine the latter’s delight, and Goodwin’s ' astonishment, a policeman, v?ho was hpt in Goodwin’.* half of the'joke, marched jn under secret orders from 1 Sotflern,' anfl repioyed the disorderly fentlemap froju tflo bog, anfl Ihen frbm the ou»e to the police-station, amid cheers from the crowd. Some time after nsi* 1 ’* 5 ' Sothern visited the itatio* *■- * ... -"‘got »I'U, ,1 hi, “»