Gag.—Luguet, the French actor, is an inveterate " gagger," as it is termed in theatrical slang, and is, besides extremely ready and quick at seizing passing opportunity. It is told of him that, playing once at Brussels, in a. drama of the Middle Ages, he was oharged, in the course of his role, with the task of bearing to the king an important despatch, on the contents of which the plot of the drama turned. The property-man by mistake gave to Luguet a blank sheets of paper, and the actor who, personated the king, nqt heaving studied the contents of the despatch, was in somewhat of a quandary; but, without being disconcerted in the least, he handed the paper to his faithful re trainer, with the grandiose command, " Eead it to me, sirrah!" "Alas, sire," made answer ■Luguet,;:with perfect composure, " b.pjrq of poor but honest parents, 1 have never learned .to re^dj." ,; "
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2077, 31 August 1875, Page 3
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