TRUE APPRECIATION
(Overheard at the Theatre)
Mrs. Parvenu. "I don't know that I'm exackly gone on Shakspeare Plays."
[Mr. P. agrees.
Conversationalist. "Do you play ping-pong?"
Actor. "No. I play Hamlet!"
To Actors who are not worth a Thought.—We notice that there is a book called "Acting and Thinking." This is to distinguish it, we imagine, from the generality of acting, in which there is mostly no thinking?
A Crusher.—Country Manager (to Mr. Agrippa Snap, the great London critic, who has come down to see the production of a piece on trial.) And what do you think, sir, of our theatre and our players?
Agrippa Snap (loftily). Well, frankly, Mr. Flatson, your green-room's better than your company.
The higher walk of the drama
"Auntie, can you do that?"
Theatrical managers are so often accused of being unable to break with tradition, that it seems only fair to point out that several of them have recently produced plays, in which the character of "Hamlet" does not appear at all.