The occasion was one of the ceremonious annual banquets of the Eoyal Society. Mark Twain wa* down .« respond ti> the .tdasjfc "Literature." "Ladies and gentlemen," he began in his famous drawl, "1 am sorry to say that Literature is in a pretty bad way. Shakespeare is dead and gone. Hilton has been gathered unto his fathers. Tennyson we have no. longer with us, and, ladies and gentlemen, I am not feeling very well myself." Then he sat down, "I saw Booth, the American actoT (relates W. Pett Bidge), play in 'Kiufc Lear.' It had not been don®, I fancy, in London for some time. When the scene between the demented King and his daughter, Goneril, was ended a matronly lady in a private box turned to another matronly lady in the next private box: 'Bather,' she said in tones which could be heard all over . tho theatre, 'rather an unpleasant family, these Learsl ' '? v 7 '
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18722, 19 June 1926, Page 13
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