LAUGHTER OUT OF PLACE.
The Lyceum Theatre, London, had nothing frivolous about it during Irving’s management except on >no occasion, when he was acting Othello to the Dcsdomona of Leah Bateman. Desdemona was strangled in a bed at tho back of the stage, and part of Irving’s “ business ” was to draw tho curtain slightly aside, afterwards turning a face of inexpressible anguish towards the audience. As a rule, Irving sternly repressed any levity on the stage, but one night, when there was to be a supper party after the performance, ho said in a sepulchral whisper, as he drew back the curtain: “ What have we for supper, Desdemona?” Miss Bateman was unequal to tho strain, and a merry peal of laughter from the corpse rang through the house. Citizen: “ That’s my car. The thief is just fixing a blowout.” Policeman! “All right, I’ll go over and arrest him.” “Sh-h-h! Wait till he gets the tyre pumped up.”
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Evening Star, Issue 18161, 29 December 1922, Page 7
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157LAUGHTER OUT OF PLACE. Evening Star, Issue 18161, 29 December 1922, Page 7
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