Not in the Part.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3638, 14 October 1890, Page 2

Not in the Part.

To die gracefully oh the stage isan. art reyuiring_ considerable; practice ! but still 'more difficult to lie prono &nd motionless while the funeral oration is pronounced, or a, disconso* late lover with a blank face bewails ■.•' inblankverse his irreparable loss Convulsive twitchings seizb upon ; the prostrate form, and such' a desire to scratch hs' nerer" before tempted ■mortal. Thon perhaps anJF sharp strays from the orchestra, or emerging .: .'. j from the cracks in the dusty stage floor, pounces upon some vital part of 1 the recumbent staiv In such cases the agonies of death are adhere nothing to the agonies of life while

compelled to stimulate a moribund condition,*but will tho histrionic performoi'B know thiitn few, .sovereigns will be deducted from their snlnr'es if they give ,thp faintest; sign ; that their departnra-,fr'ori j. tlifs woild is not nn actual: fact.'How acuto then must have been tho misory of an actress who, while playing Juliotin a warm oilyof the westjound a mosquito buzzing around lier while Romeo was apostrophising her corpse I First tho winged worry alighted upon her bared bosbtn, and patiently enough tho infliction was endured, biit after promenading this charming arena the fiend settled upon poor Jiiliot's now. This was more than any creature oitlier dead or nliro' could bear. A loud smack resounded through , the theatre, while a louder laugh from tho audienco told the stage managor that tho spirit of romance had fled from tho building when tho Bpirit of the mosquito fled from its body. The actress still lives to tell the tale, but she does not forget to add tltat tho rolo of Juliot was then and there oxpunged from 1; her ropertoiro,