John Drew . but the fair Camille repHedinstead, Thirty francs,* and wenton with her part industriously, quiteunconscious of the amazement ofthe audience. In Diplofnacy^ Mr. Drew was AlgieFairfax. The company startedwell with good notices, and thebest wishes of all their friends; butthe vast machinery of the moderncombination system had not beenperfected then and the names ofBarry more, Majeroni, and Warde 47 y O H N DREW were not, indeed, names to conjurewith, though pertaining to esti-mable and comely young the subject of this biographicalsketch blithely expresses it, Busi-ness was
John Drew . but the fair Camille repHedinstead, Thirty francs,* and wenton with her part industriously, quiteunconscious of the amazement ofthe audience. In Diplofnacy^ Mr. Drew was AlgieFairfax. The company startedwell with good notices, and thebest wishes of all their friends; butthe vast machinery of the moderncombination system had not beenperfected then and the names ofBarry more, Majeroni, and Warde 47 y O H N DREW were not, indeed, names to conjurewith, though pertaining to esti-mable and comely young the subject of this biographicalsketch blithely expresses it, Busi-ness was very bad, so Warde andBarrymore decided to halve it, andsplit the company in two. TheBarrymores, accompanied by Drew,with Ben Porter, an old fashionedactor of some repute, and EllenCummins for Henry Beauclerc andthe Countess, went southward. InTexas, late that season of 1878-9,Miss Cummins, Porter, Drew, andBarrymore were making a poor andhasty meal in a railroad Currie, a statesman of that. JiJHX DREW AM) ADA Voan^ .Nlirabel and nana in 1 lie Inconstant J O H N DREW neighbourhood, paid his addresses,without waiting for the formalityof an introduction, to the lady, andher companions remonstrated withhim. Being in his most chivalrousand statesmanlike mood, Mr. Curriereplied in the renowned Texanfashion. Porter was killed, Barry-more wounded, and the tour ofDiplomacy ended by brief but effec-tual Civil War. 49
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