History of the London Stage And Its Famous Players 1576 1903
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By one o'clock on December ist, 1804, the date of his first appearance, a prodigious concourse filled Bow Street. Towards evening the crowd assumed such alarming proportions that it was considered necessary to send for a guard of soldiers to clear the entrance and to form passages and approaches, that a probable catastrophe might be averted. Within a few minutes after the 126 THE LONDON STAGE doors were opened the theatre was crammed, seats, lobbies, passages even that did not command a glimpse... of the stage ; gentlemen wedged into suffocating corners were only kept from fainting by ladies' fans, while swooning persons of both sexes had to be dragged out of the human mass every few minutes. Drury Lane took ^300 from the overflow. The roar of applause that burst forth as this infant phenomenon, who appeared in a version of Voltaire's Mdrope called Bar- barossa, dressed as the slave Achmet, stepped from the wings, was overwhelming, and as the audience had come determined to adore this new fetish, his success was proportionate to his reception.
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