The Century illustrated monthly magazine . ted the house,except on the conventional Friday night. quality who have been on the stage for years;and it is because they begin their careers byacting leading characters. Mrs. Mowatt and crowded the auditorium ; costly silks and laces James H. Hackett were examples of many in fluttered in the dress circle, and old-fashioned our profession who have committed this fatal rose and table-cut diamonds glittered in the error. No matter how bold and dashing they private boxes. Elderly dames with their white may appear, there is a shyness and uncer- hair dres
The Century illustrated monthly magazine . ted the house,except on the conventional Friday night. quality who have been on the stage for years;and it is because they begin their careers byacting leading characters. Mrs. Mowatt and crowded the auditorium ; costly silks and laces James H. Hackett were examples of many in fluttered in the dress circle, and old-fashioned our profession who have committed this fatal rose and table-cut diamonds glittered in the error. No matter how bold and dashing they private boxes. Elderly dames with their white may appear, there is a shyness and uncer- hair dressed (>/(^/t^/zz/rt^/Vw;-, and with long and tainty about everything they do. It exhibits brilliant pendants in their ears, nodded majes- itself in the casting of the eyes down upon the tically to one another, and prim old gentle- stage in an embarrassed way just after they men in stifily starched cravats looked coldly have made a point. This is very disastrous, on. A live baronet was on view 1 When a strong eftect is made, the eye, the. SIR WILLIAM DON. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH JEEEERSON. pose, the very feeling, should be, for an instantonly, a picture, till the public digest it. If itis disturbed by some unmeaning movement thestrength is lost, and the audience will at oncediscover that they are not looking at a characteristic of the amateur may wear oftin some instances, but I do not remember any. Sir William went with us to Wilmington,North Carolina, where we opened with thestock, he appearing at the beginning of thesecond week. The audience here did not likehis acting; they seemed to prefer our domesticgoods to the imported article. He saw this,but did not seem to mind it, and so bowed tothe situation. He became very much attachedto the company and remained with us sometime, joining in our fishing and boating par-ties. His animal spirits were contagious; andas we had no rehearsals, the mornings at leastwere devoted to amusement. We would dothe most boyish a
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