AN ACTOR'S JOKE.
Asr amusing scene occurred on the occasion of Mr* Sothern's last appearance m Boston a few weeks ago. The piece, was "A Hornet's isTeat," and it ran. smoothly up to the last act ; when as Mr. Sothern was speaking 'the tag, having reached the words "We'^e not flown high— aur aim is not ambitiousA.merry trifle, not too meretricious—" ;he. was suddenly interrupted by a young m^n m one of the proscenium boxes, who rose to his, feet, and, snouted that he considered the , play; exceedingly meretricious. The audience biased, and at the same time the friends of the uninvited orator endeavoured to repress him by pulling at hia coat-tails from the recesses of the box, but he yelled wildly to them to 'let him alone,' and insisted on speaking. , ■ , . ■ • < ■ ■ ; >-:.: Mr Sothern then reqaated the audience' to let the young man have his say; Whereupon he shouted, 'Mr Sothern i have come all the; .way from Providence with my friends torattend your benefit) and now I want to know about this play— l can't make it out. y H . •'■'• 'Well, buV.we can't play it all over -again, said Mr Sothern, at which there was a burst of laughter. i ;; ; •-
: 'J&dfel can't male' head or tailofifcV. the plot ?' yeUed-tte*;g6|i^r':'pfqi| from his box, jar^ingiy^;i|M^6|il^ grasp of his invisible friends. :r^M 'My friend, this isn't a two-cent , said Sothern ; adding, 'He says he cam head or tail of it.' **• Here rose great laughter, of course, man, notwithstanding the evidences of favour' shown him by the ■> audience, in* ;on being allowed to speak, bat was md by the actor to promise to do him' one fa and on asking what; that might be' he told that it was only to do what every aoter m the play had done , 'Come roan' ; morrow V ' ''"[' Tae curtain being quickly* dropped, hi escorted oat of his box by a policeman, great excitement and numerous threi violence. 'It's a pity to add that this w» a pre-arranged practical joke, and the < actor a friend of Mr Sothern.
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 723, 3 February 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)
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341AN ACTOR'S JOKE. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 723, 3 February 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)
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