Yates, Edmund, [26]
FOOTNOTES
1 Since I wrote this, I have again visited my native town--this time to receive its civic congratulations on the occasion of my jubilee, and as recently as March of the present year I acted at the new Empire Theater.
2 Of course, all salaries are bigger now than they were then. The "stars" in old days earned large sums—[Edmund Kean] received two hundred and fifty pounds for four performances—but the ordinary members of a company were paid at a very moderate rate. I received fifteen shillings a week at the Princess's until I played [Puck], when my salary was doubled.—E.T.
4 A "join" in theatrical wig-makers' parlance is the point where the front-piece of the wig ends and the actor's forehead begins.]
5 This was a favorite story of Henry Irving's, and for that reason alone I think it worth telling, although Sir Squire Bancroft assures me that stubborn dates make it impossible that the tale should be true.
6 Mr. A.B. Walkley, the gifted dramatic critic of The Times.
7 From my Diary, June 1, 1887.—"Westland-Marston Benefit at the Lyceum. A triumphant success entirely due to the genius and admirable industry and devotion of H.I., for it is just the dullest play to read as ever was! He made it intensely interesting."
8 Alexander had just succeeded Terriss as our leading young man.