Echoes of the Playhouse Reminiscences of Some Past Glories of the English Stage
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Several seasons later (1721) the actor was to figure in another exciting episode, although one of a far differ- ent character. 'A certain noble earl, who was said (and with some degree of certainty, as he drank usque- baugh constantly at his waking) to have been in a state * Bowen was evidently half crazy at the time from his numer- ous libations. 1 84 ECHOES OF THE PLAYHOUSE. of intoxication for six years, was behind the scenes (at Lincoln's Inn Fields) at the close of a comedy, and, seeing on...e of his companions on the other side among the performers, crossed the stage and was accord- ingly hissed by the audience. Mr. Rich was on the side the noble earl came over to, and on hearing the uproar in the house at such an irregularity, the man- ager said, ' I hope your lordship will not take it ill if I give orders to the stage door keeper not to admit you any more. ' On his saying that, his lordship saluted Mr. Rich with a slap on the face, which he immediately returned, and, his lordship's face being round and fat, made his cheek ring with the force of it.
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