. Reminiscences of Toole; related by himself, and chronicled by Joseph Hatton. Illustrated by Alfred Bryan and Margetson. a very important is a great privilege, in ones serious undertakings,to have the clear-headed and disinterested counselof such a friend as Parkinson. The Folly was a poor little house, but it hadpossibilities, and to-day it is one of the prettiesttheatres, and (with a laugh) one of the plea-santest theatres I have ever played in. How onegets to like what belongs to oneself! I kept to-gether my stock company, which is one of thefew stock companies now
. Reminiscences of Toole; related by himself, and chronicled by Joseph Hatton. Illustrated by Alfred Bryan and Margetson. a very important is a great privilege, in ones serious undertakings,to have the clear-headed and disinterested counselof such a friend as Parkinson. The Folly was a poor little house, but it hadpossibilities, and to-day it is one of the prettiesttheatres, and (with a laugh) one of the plea-santest theatres I have ever played in. How onegets to like what belongs to oneself! I kept to-gether my stock company, which is one of thefew stock companies now existing ; I mean bythat, the members of it are not merely engagedfor the run of a piece, but are with me all theyear round. I have to make occasional changes,of course; but Billington, Miss Lyndon,Miss Johnstone, Mr. Shelton, Mr. Gardner,Mr. Westland, Mr. Ward, Miss Thorne, andMr. Lowne have been my companions, some ofthem for many years ; Ward has left me for 278 REMINISCENCES OF J. L. TOOLE. America, Gardner has gone to the Adelphi,Mr. Cortly, and Miss Phillips are new comers ;but what I wanted to point out is that my com-. MR. JOHN BILLINGTON. pany is formed and maintained on the old stockprinciple, and they have had parts written forthem by Byron, Burnand, Merivale. Pinero, and the best of friends must part. 279 other authors, in several of my best originalcomedies. I find it pleasant to see the same faces yearafter year, and most valuable to be working withthe same artists. There can hardly be a happierfamily than we are, myself and company, alwayson excellent terms on and off the stage, in businessever anxious to do our best with any piecein which we are engaged. The principal worksI had played up to this time were writtenby Byron. Poor fellow, he had most endearingqualities, and a wonderful fund of humour ; hisfun was always genial, never coarse, never cruel,he was more than a wit, he was a true humorist;and this can also be said of Burnand, and what adelightful thing i
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