Memories of a hostess : a chronicle of eminent friendships, drawn chiefly from the diaries of Mrs James T Fields . ooth — with one exception : he enclosed a notice fromsome newspaper, cutting up himself horribly and prais-ing Fechter. Ah ! that wont do; I shall send it backto him and tell him why. We are totally unlike in ourHamlets, and neither should be praised at the othersexpense. Mr. Fechter described minutely Mr. Dickenss at-tack of paralysis last year, and, the year before, hisprompt appearance in the box of the theatre at the lastperformance of No Thoroughfare, which he said heshould d
Memories of a hostess : a chronicle of eminent friendships, drawn chiefly from the diaries of Mrs James T Fields . ooth — with one exception : he enclosed a notice fromsome newspaper, cutting up himself horribly and prais-ing Fechter. Ah ! that wont do; I shall send it backto him and tell him why. We are totally unlike in ourHamlets, and neither should be praised at the othersexpense. Mr. Fechter described minutely Mr. Dickenss at-tack of paralysis last year, and, the year before, hisprompt appearance in the box of the theatre at the lastperformance of No Thoroughfare, which he said heshould do; but as Fechter had not heard of his returnfrom America, it was a great shock. If it had beenHamlet, or any difficult play, I could not have gone on !He should not have done such a thing. He told us astrange touching story of Mlle Mars, during her lastyears. She came upon the stage one night to give oneof the youthful parts in which she had once been sofamous. When she appeared, some heartless wretchthrew her a wreath of immortelles, as if for her was so shocked that the drops stood on her A NAST CARTOON OF^DICKENS AND FECHTER STAGE FOLK AND OTHERS 211 the rouge fell from her cheeks, and she stood motionlessbefore the audience, a picture of age and misery. Shecould not continue her part. He spoke with intense enthusiasm of FrederickLemaitre, much as I have heard Mr. Dickens do. Thesecond-class actors were always arguing with him (onlysecond-class people argue) and saying, Why do youwish me to stand here, Frederick? I dont know, hewould say, only do it. Mr. Appleton was deeply interested in the fact thatShakespeare proved himself such a believer in ghosts,as Hamlet shows, and would like to push the sub-ject farther, Mr. Fechter evidently finding much to sayon this topic also. Mr. Longfellow was interested to askabout the Dumas, pere et fils. Mr. Fechter has knownthem well and has many queer stories to tell of theirrelation to each other. Lefils calls mon per
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