SOMETHING LIKE ENJOYMENT.
I was ton ring in the colonies once Willi a melodrama of a very pathetic nature (says a well-known actor ) . It invariably affected the audience to tears—sometimes even to sobs. I had not been very long on the stage then, and it seemed to me very cruel to get a lot of people inside a theut re and make them cry all evening, until my eyes were opened in a rather amusing way. One night my landlady asked me to give her a pass, which I did, not without inwaid qualms of conscience. Judg? of my astonishment, when on rriuhing my rooms, after the performance, I found her red-nosed and swollen-eyed indeed, but otherwise beaming with delight. " Well, Mrs. B—,:' I said," did you enjoy the play ? " '.' That I did, sir," she replied. " Why, I never cried so much in my life ! " "
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 190, 15 April 1902, Page 3
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145SOMETHING LIKE ENJOYMENT. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 190, 15 April 1902, Page 3
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