Appropriate.
'At an evening party in the home of Charles Mathe'ws, the eminent actor, a gathering of iistiru^uished men were being amused with a
raffle for penny toys. Each drew a number and, if successful, drew a toy.
Palgrave Simpson, the dramatic author, took a prise, and said, in his finical way,
What shall I chooee
" D&?.r, dear me! amongst these?"
Henry J. Byron, another well-known dramatist who was present, immediately look up a penny sword, pulled it out of its sheath, and exclaimed, "Take this, Falgrave ; you nead something that will draw."
The truth was t^at Fal grave Simpson had just perpetrated a play which had proved a iaikire.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2412, 24 May 1900, Page 66
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110Appropriate. Otago Witness, Issue 2412, 24 May 1900, Page 66
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