The Actor Or a Peep Behind the Curtain Being Passages in the Lives of Booth a
The Actor Or a Peep Behind the Curtain Being Passages in the Lives of Booth a
Thomas Ford
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In consequence, a full and fashionable house assembled at an early hour on Friday evening, to witness his debut. " The first scene of the play, though respectably supported, was uninteresting from the anxiety all felt for the appearance of the young candidate for histrionic fame. At length he appeared, and was welcomed with three long, distinct rounds of applause, which must have been very gratifying to the young actor, and who, we could perceive, was sensibly affected. " In the earlier scenes ...Mr. B. Was evidently embarrassed ; in the course of the second act he began to recover, and in the third he evidently gained upon the good opinion of the audience ; in the fourth he produced a great impression in his favor, but in the fifth act, while he astonished, he confirmed the high opinion many- had expressed of his talents as an actor. " We are well aware it is not very difficult to produce effect in most of Shakspere's plays, because the characters are relieved with such prominence and vigor, that the hand cannot be laid upon them without bearing away some kind of impression ; but to transmit them into full and accurate beauty to the eye, to transmit the image from the volume in its splendor to the stage ; to summon up before us in actual, tangible existence the concep- OR, A PEEP BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
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