. An actor's notebooks, being some memories, friendships, criticisms and experiences of Frank Archer. d his manly pathos in aline of parts, particularly his own—parts of the DanielPeggotty type. His rendering of a character heassumed in a melodrama called Lost in Londonwas extremely good. Without being that unrealisable quantity, a perfectHamlet, there were in Fechters performance of thepart some very admirable and beautiful points, Ithought. But naturally the French accent and elementswere conspicuous in his acting. In The DukesMotto these heightened the effect of his assumption,which was exc
. An actor's notebooks, being some memories, friendships, criticisms and experiences of Frank Archer. d his manly pathos in aline of parts, particularly his own—parts of the DanielPeggotty type. His rendering of a character heassumed in a melodrama called Lost in Londonwas extremely good. Without being that unrealisable quantity, a perfectHamlet, there were in Fechters performance of thepart some very admirable and beautiful points, Ithought. But naturally the French accent and elementswere conspicuous in his acting. In The DukesMotto these heightened the effect of his assumption,which was excellent. The mention of Fechter recalls his friend a youth I was always hopeful, like many others,that one day I might meet the great novelist, but itwas a pleasure denied me. Once only I heard himread. It was on March 13, 1862, at St. JamessHall in Piccadilly. His readings then consisted ofScenes from David Copperfield and Bob SawyersParty from Pickwick. He left on me the impressionthat his powers of impersonation were greater thanhis ability in sustained, even reading. For instance,. **You cant have no warm water** 35 in level passages such a reader as Bellew ^ was hissuperior, though when it came to realising any of thecharacters of his own creation, dramatically, he reignedsupreme. The one thing I remember most clearly inthe Pickwick reading was his rendering of Betseythe small servant, at Bob Sawyers lodgings. Therewas a dash of a cold in the head in her, PleaseMister Sawyer, Missis Raddle wants to speak to you,and, You cant have no warm water . . MissisRaddle said you warnt to have none. An inimitablebit of Cockney character. Other allusions to Dickenswill come later ; but what apology is needed for intro-ducing the subject ? Surely no literary name has agreater fascination. W. E. Henley aptly expresseswhat thousands must have felt: I love to rememberthat I came into the world contemporaneously withsome of his bravest work. ... I love to think thatwhile Englis
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