Henry Irving, a biographical sketch . a5th, 1859), Masks and Faces was represented,Mr. and Mrs. Wyndham acting Sir Charles Pomander and PegWofBngton respectively, Irving appearing as Soaper. The com-pany then migrated to Dundee and Kirkcaldy. During theshort vacation of this year, Irving gave readings in Dalkeithand Linlithgow. The amusing story of his failure to draw allLinlithgow to hear The Lady of Lyons, was told by himin the Christmas publication called The Stage Door, in 1879: Many years ago I made an ambitious appeal to the publicwhich I dont suppose anybody remembers but myself. I hada
Henry Irving, a biographical sketch . a5th, 1859), Masks and Faces was represented,Mr. and Mrs. Wyndham acting Sir Charles Pomander and PegWofBngton respectively, Irving appearing as Soaper. The com-pany then migrated to Dundee and Kirkcaldy. During theshort vacation of this year, Irving gave readings in Dalkeithand Linlithgow. The amusing story of his failure to draw allLinlithgow to hear The Lady of Lyons, was told by himin the Christmas publication called The Stage Door, in 1879: Many years ago I made an ambitious appeal to the publicwhich I dont suppose anybody remembers but myself. I hadat that time been about two years upon the stage, and was fulfill-ing my first engagement at Edinburgh. Like all young men, Iwas full of hope, aind looked forward buoyantly to the time whenI should leave the bottom rung of the ladder far below me. Theweeks rolled on, however, and my name continued to occupy auseful but obscure position in the playbill, and nothing occurredto suggest to the manager the propriety of doubling my salary,. IRVING AS EUGENE ARAM. I8S6-59-] JT LINLITHGOW. 17 although he took care to assure me that I was made to may be mentioned that I was then receiving thirty shillingsper week, which was the usual remuneration for what is termedjuvenile lead. At last a brilliant idea occurred to me. It happened to bevacation time—preaching week/ as it is called in Scotland—and it struck me that I might turn my leisure to account bygiving a reading. I imparted this project to another member ofthe company, who entered into it with enthusiasm. He, too,was young and ambitious. It was the business aspect of theenterprise which fired his imagination j it was the artistic aimthat excited mine. When I promised him half the profits, butnot before, he had a vision of the excited crowd surging roundthe doors, of his characteristic energy in keeping them back withone hand and taking the money with the other; and afterwards,of the bags of coin neatly tied and carefully
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