Comments on a production of Pauline. Transcription: after supping with them [Charles Brown, Alfred Waud, and Joseph Brightly] at Sweenys, we walked through drenching rain to the Lyceum. Farce, then a melodrama ycleped ?ǣPauline ? by [Alexandre] Dumas, nonsense, intensely French nonsense, but amusing from its startling incidents, thunder storms, secret doors, pistollings & finally a duel across a table, in which the Satanic, Byronic, gambling, highway-robbing impossibility who ?s the hero of the piece gets artistically and anatomically settled. Withal it was very well played. Laura Keene ?s En
Comments on a production of Pauline. Transcription: after supping with them [Charles Brown, Alfred Waud, and Joseph Brightly] at Sweenys, we walked through drenching rain to the Lyceum. Farce, then a melodrama ycleped ?ǣPauline ? by [Alexandre] Dumas, nonsense, intensely French nonsense, but amusing from its startling incidents, thunder storms, secret doors, pistollings & finally a duel across a table, in which the Satanic, Byronic, gambling, highway-robbing impossibility who ?s the hero of the piece gets artistically and anatomically settled. Withal it was very well played. Laura Keene ?s English face, voice and acting I like, much. This Lyceum is a capitally managed little place, your ?e always amused ? The Old piece of ?ǣThe Ways of Windsor ? after, [John] Brougham in ?t. / Leaving at the close, we went to the Star at Lispenard Street, then ate Welsh Rarebits & drank ale, & reviled Brightly who would fain assume greater wisdom than the rest of us in not tolerating ?ǣPauline! The play & players were pretty freely criticized, when anon I find that one of the latter is in the room. ?Twas [Bill] Reynolds, who boarded at Mrs [Anna M.] Leave ?s, during my sojourn there. A few words passed between us anent old acquaintances. Broke up at 12, & each they to their mutual boarding house, I to my cockloft [290 Broadway], through such a fall of rain as might have sufficed for a circle of Dante ?s hell. 12. Saturday. Hither & thither. Drawing the greater Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 166, March 11-12, 1853 . 11 March 1853. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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