Sir Henry and the Lunatic : A Successful Imitation.
Successful Imitation.
Asking Sir Eenry Irving on one occasion how far he conld reproduce in his acting the vesußs of actual observation, he said : "While I was\ playing ' The Bells,' 1 visited Broadmoor one day, when I noticed that one of the patients, as soon as he paw me, began dodgir-g round and peering at me in a curious, hunted kind of way,.. Evidently he had seen im during his period of sanity, and the sight of mv f?ce had iccalled some confused me-
"When I was acting that night, in the trial scene, where Mathias first seea the mesmerist. I instinctively imitated the madman I had &een during the day, and the effect was so natural and good thai I have always adopted it since." — Cas?ell's Magazine. .
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Otago Witness, Issue 2409, 3 May 1900, Page 72
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136Sir Henry and the Lunatic: A Successful Imitation. Otago Witness, Issue 2409, 3 May 1900, Page 72
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