Adding to the Solemnity.
Some local amateurs gave a performance of “ Hamlet ” one day last week. (Jus De Smith was Hamlet, The day after the performance Kosciusko Murphy met Gus and asked —
“ How did the performance come off last night ?” “ Everybody did well except old Dr. Pennybunker. I’ll be dashed if ho goes on the stage with me any more. I’ll take him and tie him on a railway line and let the train run over him before be shall play Ghost to my Hamlet any more.” “Was he the Ghost?" 1
“ Yes, and the blooming old idiot stalked across the stage with his spectacle on. He made a circus of the whole show. If ever there was a melancholy Dane I was one. I haven’t got over it. And the old graven image says he put on his specs to add to the solemnity of the scene.”
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Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 281, 3 September 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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148Adding to the Solemnity. Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 281, 3 September 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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