HE BOBBED UP SERENELY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 939, 5 March 1908, Page 18

HE BOBBED UP SERENELY.

An obituary notice is one of those things that the man it concerns never sees, but there are exceptions to the rule, and Mr Bert Gilbert is one of them. It was at Plymouth that the “ accident ” occurred which gave him the opportunity of reading what other people thought of him. He had gone for a row, and returning unnoticed to his hotel, had fallen asleep. The chambermaid, sent to his room at the instance of the manager of the company who missed him at 7 o’clock, found it in darkness, and immediately jumped to the conclusion that he was drowned —she never thought of looking on the bed which was b hiid the door. The news quickly got around and when Gilbert awoke at nine o’clock he was greeted as he rushed

down to the theatre by the shouts of the evening paper sellers crying “ Fatal accident to Mr Bert. Gilbert.” All his associates in the theatre had given him up but the gloom which overspread the performance gave place to rejoicing, not unmixed wivh consternation when he made his appearance supposedly from the dead.