Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . , and groans, and hisses, wereredoubled. Mr. Macready stood quiteunmoved—not the slightest tremor visible—not the least bravado, either, in hismanner. Another chair was hurled on thestage, a
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . , and groans, and hisses, wereredoubled. Mr. Macready stood quiteunmoved—not the slightest tremor visible—not the least bravado, either, in hismanner. Another chair was hurled on thestage, and the curtain suddenly fell. Theladies hurried from the boxes—all but afew, who betrayed not the slightest the uproar continued, and there wasloud talking in the lobbies. A greatcrowd outside thundered at the doors, andthreatened to break into the theater. and a strong party of his policemenbarricaded the entrances. The ladies werehurried. out by one of the doors that openin Eighth street, and in a few minutesafterwards, Mr. Macreadj, in a close car-riage, was driven rapidly and safely person on the stage was injured by anyof the missiles thrown during the evening,but almost all of the actors received a co])i-ous allowance of the fetid liquid whichwas discharged from the gallery. Someof the ladies expressed their feelings infavor of Mr. Macready by waving their. handkerchiefs; and many of the maleaudience who were most enthusiastic infavor of Mr. Macready, were Americans. During the pantomime upon the stage,the American actors playing with Macreadywere frequently warned by the people in the gallery to go off the stage, or expectsimilar treatment hereafter. In conse-quence of these warnings, after the playwas suspended, Mr. C. AV. Clarke appearedin front of the curtain, as an apologist;he remarked that his family was depend-ent on his exertions for a maintenance,and he pleaded this fact in justification ofhimself for having consented to play
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