Days of the dandies . sitor was horrified, andrushed away, asking, Is hell broke loose ? Thisgrotesque picture brings the actress vividly beforeus. Yet with this reckless humour there was inher a strain of sentiment and seriousness, — acombination often found on the stage. Antici-pating a little by a few years, we find ourselvespresent at another exhibition in the greenroom,when an unseemly quarrel occurred between and Mrs. Woffington, which amused andastonished the town. In the year 1754, when Henry IV. wasacted, a very beautiful and accomplished actress(Woffington) condescended, in
Days of the dandies . sitor was horrified, andrushed away, asking, Is hell broke loose ? Thisgrotesque picture brings the actress vividly beforeus. Yet with this reckless humour there was inher a strain of sentiment and seriousness, — acombination often found on the stage. Antici-pating a little by a few years, we find ourselvespresent at another exhibition in the greenroom,when an unseemly quarrel occurred between and Mrs. Woffington, which amused andastonished the town. In the year 1754, when Henry IV. wasacted, a very beautiful and accomplished actress(Woffington) condescended, in order to givestrength to the play, to act the trifling charac-ter of Lady Percy. The house was far fromcrowded, and a celebrated comic actress () triumphed in the barrenness of the pit andboxes: she threw out some expressions againstthe consequence of Lady Percy. This produceda very cool and cutting answer from the other, Peg IVoffington and Kitty Ctive in the GreenroomScuffle Coloured caricature by Gilray. MRS. CATHERINE CLIVE 229 who reminded the former of her playing to amuch thinner audience one of her favourite parts,and now the ladies, not being able to restrainthemselves within the bounds of cool conversation,a most terrible fray ensued. I do not believe theywent so far as pulling of caps, but their altercationwould not have disgraced the females of Billings-gate. While the two great actresses were thusentertaining each other in one part of the green-room, the admirer of Lady Percy, an old gentle-man who afterward bequeathed her a considerablefortune, and the brother of this comic lady (Raf-tor) were more seriously employed. Mr. Swineystruck the other with his cane; thus provoked, hevery calmly laid hold of the old mans jaw. Letgo my jaw, you villain, and Throw down yourcane, sir! were repeatedly echoed by the com-batants. Barry, who was afraid lest the audienceshould hear full as much of the quarrel as ofthe play, rushed into the room and put an endto the ba
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