John Drew . observationthat he took his lesson seriouslyto heart, and worked as he neverworked before in mastering hisnew part. He spent hours lockedin his room, long after he hadlearnt the words, piecing togethersignificant bits of illustrative busi-ness, harmonising in his mind thedetails of action settled upon atrehearsal. His reward came inthe boisterous applause bestowedupon his alert, humorous, grace-ful acting in the new play. An J O H N DREW Arabian Night, November 29,1879. His character was Alexander Sprin-kle, a young married man oppressedby a formidable mother-in-law, who,in the mos
John Drew . observationthat he took his lesson seriouslyto heart, and worked as he neverworked before in mastering hisnew part. He spent hours lockedin his room, long after he hadlearnt the words, piecing togethersignificant bits of illustrative busi-ness, harmonising in his mind thedetails of action settled upon atrehearsal. His reward came inthe boisterous applause bestowedupon his alert, humorous, grace-ful acting in the new play. An J O H N DREW Arabian Night, November 29,1879. His character was Alexander Sprin-kle, a young married man oppressedby a formidable mother-in-law, who,in the most innocent mood imagin-able, occasionally seeks adventurein the manner of that renownedCaliph of Bagdad whose glory iscelebrated by Scheherazade. has acted many better partsin a similar vein since that nightof his first notable triumph ; towardthe close of his long and memo-rable engagement at Dalys, he tookup the same r6le under a differentname, in Sydney Grundys muchmore compact version of the same. JOHN DREWAs the Adjutant in The Passing Regiment y O H N DREW German play which, like the origi-nal of The Big Bo?ia?iza, was writtenby Von Moser. But that was thenight that made him quite,though I fancy he would not havebeen undone if the popular ver-dict had been against his perform-ance. His inborn talent wouldhave told in time. An ArabianNight had the first considerablerun of that first season at Dalys,and John Drews was the mostdistinguished personal success in itsperformance. From that time onhe was an actor to be reckonedwith. From that time the goodqualities in his acting never lackedappreciation in as large measure as 13 J O H N D R E ^ the best of actors can hope had passed safely through hisapprenticeship, and was, hencefor-ward, until he deliberately becamea star, a leading man, thoughMr. Daly discountenanced eventhe empty forms of lines * ofwork among his is necessary, before proceedingfurther with this record of hiscareer, to put down some of
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