Comments on John Brougham as an actor. Transcription: the ?ǣHappy Man ? followed, [John] Brougham playing the Irish Hero of it. Verily he is marvellously rich in Irish parts, and every way a fine actor ? does no vulgarisms or gag too. When in Sir Lucius he has to say, ?ǣIf I cannot succeed myself, I ?m glad to see success in others, ? the audience took the phrase as applicable to his own ill fortune in former Lyceum management, & cheered lustily, which pleased me. / A glass of ale at an English place, (where I met [James P.] Neagle,) and at midnight down Broadway with [Alfred] Waud, [Augustu
Comments on John Brougham as an actor. Transcription: the ?ǣHappy Man ? followed, [John] Brougham playing the Irish Hero of it. Verily he is marvellously rich in Irish parts, and every way a fine actor ? does no vulgarisms or gag too. When in Sir Lucius he has to say, ?ǣIf I cannot succeed myself, I ?m glad to see success in others, ? the audience took the phrase as applicable to his own ill fortune in former Lyceum management, & cheered lustily, which pleased me. / A glass of ale at an English place, (where I met [James P.] Neagle,) and at midnight down Broadway with [Alfred] Waud, [Augustus] Fay soon quitting us. Arrived at our corner, a talk with watchman Murtough & decent into a small basement cellar that day opened in the very bottom of ?our ? building [290 Broadway] as an oyster & drinking place. Not much bigger than a pantry, proprietor to match; ? a b ?hoy imbibing and a girl of the town. Ten minutes & a drink, then with Waud mounted aloft to my room, & to bed. He on floor with buffalo-hide & long sofa lid of my box, & pillow; I in box. 26. Sunday. Breakfast at Sweeneys with Waud. He back reading ?ǣBleak House, ? I drawing ?ǣSontag ?s ? portrait on wood for Lockington, who called for it, once alone, (ere we had risen,) & anon with Holbrook, after Waud had gone down town, to draw at [] Chapin ?s. Finished at 1, & straight to Mr [Frank] Royal ?s as promised. Dined, though after time, Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 54, September 25-26, 1852 . 25 September 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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