A TOOLE STORY.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5474, 31 December 1904, Page 10

A TOOLE STORY.

During the run of “Dearer than Life.” Tool© and Lionel Brough betook themselves to a photographer’s to be “taken” as the broken-down brothers in tho garret scene. Brough, wonderfully made up, wore the regulation workhouse costume, and Toole was as shabby as an ont-at-elbows, insolvent tradesman could well be. While the operator was at work Toole suggested that they should take a stroll in their stag© make-up. in the adjacent West End Square. Toole knocked at the door of the mansion of a wealthy, purse-proud individual, who, . having sprung from nothing, waa notoriously ashamed of his less prosperous relations, and anxious to pose as tho intimate friend of his aristocratic neighbours. The door was opened by a pompons, powdered, and plushed footman, who looked in dismay, on the disreputable intruders. “Master in?” asked Toole. “No, ho is not," said the flunkey. “Not in?”.said Toole, with an air of disappointment, which was also conveyed by the byplay of Brough. “Well, when he comes in, young man, tell him as his two brothers from the workhouse called to see him.” —Prom T. Edgar Pemberton’s ‘ Sir Charles Wyndham.”