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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3323, 16 August 1879, Page 4

M* Emm, a popular ;actor, recently undertook for a wager of £50 to perform in the three towns of Swansea, Cardiff and Newport, on the same night, within a given time. A Saturday night was the evening fixed foe the attempt. Mr Emm commenced at the Star Theatre. Swansea, and assumed the character of Timothy Tickle. The drami #as played extraordinary smartness, and the audience cheered Mr Emm most lustily ai the curtain fell. At the High street station .a .number of the versatile actor's admirers, who were congregated, greeted him with many cordial expressions. ■of encouragement. At Landorej Neath, Port Talbot, and Bridgend—at all of which places the people seemed to hare heard of the intended feat—numbers of Mr Emm's friends assembled to give him a friendly greeting en route. At Cardiff he had quite an ovation, and it was thought he would alight at the station but the exigencies of the case did hot admit of this arrangement, and Mr Emm proceeded direct to Newport, arriving there,; thanks to "Hell-fire Dick," the driver of, the mail, to the very second if not'a 'little before. There was an enthusiastic audience assembled in the Victoria Great Hall/who received Emm with; thunders of applause. He quickly rattled off the adventures of Topsail Tom, and sang two comic songs. Then with-; out waiting to change his costume he drove rapidly back to the station just in time to catch the down express, which' landed him in Cardiff a few minutes after ;ten. The journey between the tWo; stations afforded him ample time V- to; change his dress, and he was thus enabled to appear on the stage at the Philharmonic Theatre, Cardiff, ready for his new part by 10.20. His reception , was enormous. Hats and handkerchiefs were waved, and the cheering was repeated. again, and again. ,Mr Emm, in a few well-chosen words,, thanked the audience for t the interest they had taken in bis winning the wager. He informed them that he had travelled more than seventy-one miles, and Raid that though he was not equal to Sir Hoche Boyle's bird, which could be in two places, at the same time, he had shown them that he could, be and act, in three places, widely apart one from tba other, within the' short space of four hours. ■

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