. An actor's notebooks, being some memories, friendships, criticisms and experiences of Frank Archer. that when the right arm was extended the clawsrested on the muscle of it, and by bending the limb andputting the mouth to the wide end of the horn, drinkingwas natural and easy. This I found to be the the chances would have been that if the Kinghad tried to drink with any liquor really in the vessel,it must have been attended by an unseemly and veryunregal slobberiness. There was doubtless goodauthority for the particular form of cup used. Thecostumes, etc. chosen were of the earli
. An actor's notebooks, being some memories, friendships, criticisms and experiences of Frank Archer. that when the right arm was extended the clawsrested on the muscle of it, and by bending the limb andputting the mouth to the wide end of the horn, drinkingwas natural and easy. This I found to be the the chances would have been that if the Kinghad tried to drink with any liquor really in the vessel,it must have been attended by an unseemly and veryunregal slobberiness. There was doubtless goodauthority for the particular form of cup used. Thecostumes, etc. chosen were of the earlier part of thethirteenth century. The revival was altogether veryinteresting, though it was over-heralded, and conse-quently begot disappointment. On May loth the MacKayes gave a pleasant littledinner to the actors in the revival, at the SalisburyHotel near Fleet Street. About two months afterwardsa tour was made in the country with Hamlet, and Ithink with other plays—not, I am afraid, a very profit-able venture. MacKaye returned to America, andthough he failed to satisfy the English critics in. Photo by London Stereoscopic Companx. ADA CAVENDISH AS MERCY MERRICK IX THE NEW MAGDALEX. p. 146] A Luncheon at Wilkie Collinses 147 Shakespeare, he eventually became a well-knowndramatist in his own country. He was the authorof a popular play called Hazel Kirke. As Ihave said, I have the most pleasant memories ofhim, and also his wife and his father. His deathoccurred in 1894 while in the train on his way toSan Francisco, Thanks to the kind recommendation of the Bancrofts,I was selected by Wilkie Collins to play the part ofJulian Gray in The New Magdalen, and wasengaged by Miss Ada Cavendish, who was to produceit at the Olympic Theatre on May 19. Up to thistime her management had been rather disastrous.** The New Magdalen was her first attracted large audiences, and was played without abreak until September 27—about nineteen Gray was an excellent and m
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