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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891. Excerpt: ... DRAMATIC TABLE-TALK. Memokies! well, there will be plenty of them crowding upon the brain whenever we take our seats to see the oldGreen Bushes at the new Adelphi. My own theatrical recollection does not take me back to January 27, 1845, for I was only three years old at the time, and certainly cannot conjure up Mrs. Yates or Mrs. Fitzwilliam; but in after years, many a time and oft, I saw tall, handsome Charles Selby, and Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, and Cullenford, and, of course, Madame Celeste. But I have many Adelphi memories of a later date--of the days when J. W. Anson, who compiled almanacks and financed the Dramatic College, sat down below us, and passed us into the theatre; of well-remembercd times when I used to visit Johnny Toole and Paul Bedford in their Adelphi dressing-room, where they hobnobbed together after the fashion of Wright and Paul Bedford; of days when old fossils like "W. H. Eburne played dashing young sparks at the age of sixty, or thereabouts, when Phillips played impossible flunkeys, and Bob Eomer was induced one memorable evening to take a Benefit at the Eoyalty, and play Othello. Shall I ever forget that Othello evening--Bob Eomer playing Othello as seriously as a judge, with a black face and his wellknown staccato, jerky utterance; Jeff Prowse, with his merry, twinkling eyes; and Bill Brough, with a contingent of "Savages," led by Harry Leigh, as members of the Venetian senate; and Tom Eobertson literally rolling on the floor with laughter at the back of the dresscircle. "Don't laugh so, Tom," I said to him, as he literally shrieked at the interpolated remarks of the audience to Bob Eomer's address to the senate, "you will do yourself an injury!" "I can't help it, Clement," he roared out, with laughter, and tears in his eyes....
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