HUMOURS OF A DUBLIN AUDIENCE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2557, 17 March 1877, Page 3

HUMOURS OF A DUBLIN AUDIENCE.

The humours of a Dublin audience, much as I had heard of them before going to Ireland, surprised and diverted me very much. The second night of our •eting there, as we were leafing the theatre by the private entrance, we found the • carriage surrounded by a crowd eagerly waiting for our coming out. As soon as my father appeared, there was a shout of "Three cheers for Misther Char-les! " then came Dull, and "Three cheers for Mistress Char-les ! " then I. and "Three cheers for Miss Fanny!" "Bedad, she looks well by gaslight!" .exclaimed one of my admirers. " Och, bedad; she looks well by daylight too!" retorted another, though what his opportunity for forming that flattering opinion of the i genuineness of my good looks had been I cannot imagine. What further Remarks passed upon us I do not know, as we drove off laughing, and left onr : friends still vociferously cheering. My father toM us one day of his being followed^ up Sarkviile s«|eet by two beggar-women, between wlio'm the following rlialoe'ie passed, evidently with a view to his edification : " Och. but he's an illigant man, is Misthpr Char lt-s Eeroble ! " " An' 'deed, so was his brudher'. Misth'nr John, thin, a miglity fcine man! and io see Bis demanonr, putting his hand in bis poc' et and given' "me sixpensp, bate all the world ! " Lord C -, whose tall, lithy figure ; and prominent tepth were well known to ; the paper populat:on of Dublin, having told a Uresome old female beggar, who was pursuing him, to" " go alone." received the sgreoable rejoinder, •' Ah !Go 'Ion? wid your own self! ye're liVe an old comb! all back and taath !" When I was acting Lady Townley, in the • scpre whprp her husband complaiDS of her late hours and Bhe insoJently retorts,; '" I won't conic home till 4 to- rabrrowmorning," and receives the stHrtHng ; reply with which J : brd 1 owley leaves her, " Then, madame, you shall never come home again," I was apt to stand for a moment aghast at this threat; and one night during this pause of; breathless,dismay, one, of nay gallery auditors, thinking, I, suppose, that I was wanting in proper spirit not to make some rejoinder, exclaimed, "Now ■- thini = Fanny ! " which very /nearly upset the gravity produced by my? father's impressive exit, both in me and in the BUdipnce.~Mrs Kemble, in the Atlantic Monthly/ i;-'^ ;; :;'' ; ;"" .. ■■■";;; '■ .