Personal reminis
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共 41 段- To this day I can remember the playing of Henry Irving as Ca
- He sat the play out with intense eagerness, and as the curta
- “The grand reception given to Mr. Irving in Trinity College
- But the play itself wanted something. The last act, in which
- This “Lyceum audience,” whose qualities endeared them to me
- _Drawn by Henry Irving, 1881_
- After a while we began to get anxious about the scenery. We
- The first time I saw _Eugene Aram_, June 6, 1879, I was much
- It would be difficult for an actor to explain in what this a
- _The Corsican Brothers_ was produced on September 18, 1880,
- When the Emperor Frederick—then Crown Prince of Germany—came
- Happy, I say, should be the real dramatist who has the co-op
- I went with Hallam to his own study, leaving Irving alone wi
- The room was well guarded against cold, for we had to pass f
- In the boxes and stalls sat the Indian Princes and the Colon
- Irving’s dressing of the part and that personal preparation
- If we could win from Shakespeare’s river
- Two years later we were all at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Irvi
- Lord Aberdeen was an old friend and had, when he was Governo
- Our next meeting was on September 18, 1886, when we were all
- The very early portrait of him in the possession of the writ
- In this connection and with the same illustration—the orator
- Mr. Gladstone was a really good playgoer and he seemed to lo
- “The actor is a joint creator with the author—even with such
- Another story was of a little boy, one of a large family. Th
- “The melodious character of the earth,
- Irving’s view of this was different to that of both Caine an
- In the early stages of the building up of the play there was
- “You are quite right!... I shall come with pleasure!” he sai
- He, the kindliest and most genial soul on earth, became a fa
- Ellen Terry had no sooner come into the Lyceum than all in t
- The Queen sat in the centre in front with the Prince of Wale
- “I am holding a sort of Court of justice the day after to-mo
- In 1894 Manchester had no University exclusively its own. It
- There was one other fire which had a bearing on Irving’s int
- I have myself seen Irving lifted from the stage by the Act d
- Only those who have experience of the working of a great the
- It was not till 7th December that he was well enough to get
- During that tour at half the places the visit was of farewel
- The Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey were memorialised
- Lloyd-Davies, William Allan, 448, 455