ISBN: 9781153715812

Excerpt: ...even our own condescending admiration-pall on the jaded spirits of the poor player. How sparklingly is Miss Smith acting Lady Teazle to-night! we say, elegantly pressing our h… Plus…

Excerpt: ...even our own condescending admiration-pall on the jaded spirits of the poor player. How sparklingly is Miss Smith acting Lady Teazle to-night! we say, elegantly pressing our hands together in token of august favour. We are entranced, and it follows, therefore, that the actress must be entranced likewise. Mayhap Miss Smith does not share the same ecstacy; perhaps, as she stands behind the screen in Joseph Surface''s rooms, Sir Peter''s wife is wishing that the comedy were ended and she were comfortably ensconced in her cosy little lodgings round the corner. She pictures that crackling wood fire, and her old terrier basking in the gentle heat, and the tea-urn hissing near by (or is it a cold bottle of beer in the portable refrigerator?) and in the background sweet good Mr. Smith, who does nothing but spend his lady''s salary. In that temple of domesticity there are no thoughts of rouge, or paint-pots, or of Richard Brinsley Sheridan-it is merely home. Dost thou always hurry back to so attractive a one, thou patronising theatre-goer? Our Nance had a home to which she was glad enough to hurry back, like the aforesaid Miss Smith, after the play was over at Drury Lane. There was no husband there to await her, but a very devoted knight in the person of Mr. Arthur Maynwaring, who, though he gave not his name nor the ceremony of bell, book, and candle to the union, played the part of spouse to the fair charmer. The town looked with good-natured tolerance on the moral code, or the want thereof, of the frail one, just as other towns, in later days, have looked with equal benevolence upon the peccadillos of some petted favourite. The times were not of the straightlaced order and no one expected from an actress wonders of chastity or conventionality. Are we ourselves exacting where the Thespian is concerned? Illustration: ANNE OLDFIELD By JONATHAN RICHARDSON Fashion''d alike by Nature and by Art To please, engage, and interest ev''ry heart. In public... Edward Robins, Books, History, The Palmy Days Of Nance Oldfield Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153715812

Excerpt: ...even our own condescending admiration-pall on the jaded spirits of the poor player. How sparklingly is Miss Smith acting Lady Teazle to-night! we say, elegantly pressing our h… Plus…

Excerpt: ...even our own condescending admiration-pall on the jaded spirits of the poor player. How sparklingly is Miss Smith acting Lady Teazle to-night! we say, elegantly pressing our hands together in token of august favour. We are entranced, and it follows, therefore, that the actress must be entranced likewise. Mayhap Miss Smith does not share the same ecstacy; perhaps, as she stands behind the screen in Joseph Surface''s rooms, Sir Peter''s wife is wishing that the comedy were ended and she were comfortably ensconced in her cosy little lodgings round the corner. She pictures that crackling wood fire, and her old terrier basking in the gentle heat, and the tea-urn hissing near by (or is it a cold bottle of beer in the portable refrigerator?) and in the background sweet good Mr. Smith, who does nothing but spend his lady''s salary. In that temple of domesticity there are no thoughts of rouge, or paint-pots, or of Richard Brinsley Sheridan-it is merely home. Dost thou always hurry back to so attractive a one, thou patronising theatre-goer? Our Nance had a home to which she was glad enough to hurry back, like the aforesaid Miss Smith, after the play was over at Drury Lane. There was no husband there to await her, but a very devoted knight in the person of Mr. Arthur Maynwaring, who, though he gave not his name nor the ceremony of bell, book, and candle to the union, played the part of spouse to the fair charmer. The town looked with good-natured tolerance on the moral code, or the want thereof, of the frail one, just as other towns, in later days, have looked with equal benevolence upon the peccadillos of some petted favourite. The times were not of the straightlaced order and no one expected from an actress wonders of chastity or conventionality. Are we ourselves exacting where the Thespian is concerned? Illustration: ANNE OLDFIELD By JONATHAN RICHARDSON Fashion''d alike by Nature and by Art To please, engage, and interest ev''ry heart. In public... Edward Robins, Books, History, The Palmy Days Of Nance Oldfield Books>History <

ISBN: 9781153715812

Edward Robins (1862-1943) was an American author. His works include: Echoes of the Playhouse: Reminiscences of Some Past Glories of the English Stage (1895), The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfi… Plus…

Edward Robins (1862-1943) was an American author. His works include: Echoes of the Playhouse: Reminiscences of Some Past Glories of the English Stage (1895), The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield (1898), Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Statesman, Philosopher and Practical Citizen, 1706-1790 (1898), Twelve Great Actors (1900), Twelve Great Actresses (1900), With Thomas in Tennessee (1900), With Washington in Braddock's Campaign (1900), A Boy in Early Virginia (1900), Chasing an Iron Horse; Edward Robins (1862-1943) was an American author. His works include: Echoes of the Playhouse: Reminiscences of Some Past Glories of the English Stage (1895), The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield (1898), Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Statesman, Philosopher and Practical Citizen, 1706-1790 (1898), Twelve Great Actors (1900), Twelve Great Actresses (1900), With Thomas in Tennessee (1900), With Washington in Braddock's Campaign (1900), A Boy in Early Virginia (1900), Chasing an Iron Horse; or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War (1902), Romances of Early America (1902), William T. Sherman (1905) and Old Books and Passing Authors (1938). Books, Biography & Autobiography~~General, Palmy-Days-of-Nance-Oldfield~~Edward-Robins, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153715812

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