" You must not play with that girl, \ my dear ; her father is a shoemaker. " \ " But I don't play with her father, I f play with her, Bhe isn't a shoemaker, i ma." It was at Sadler's Wells. A young man called on Phelps, asking for an engagement. By request he recited '■ Othello's address to the senate. "Sir," ' said Phelps* "don't go on the stage ; it's " an ill-requited propession." Theaßpixant , however, was not to be diverted from ; his resolution. "In that oaae," re- [ marked Phelps, " come here ;£2 a week . to commence with." The youth thought , it better to have a provincial training. . His name was Henry Irving.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1138, 4 October 1880, Page 2
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