Forgot to Crow
At a small theatre, Hamlet was being given, and a very poor actor played the principal part. In the scene with the ghost, he shouted like mad. Some one in the parquet said: “Quite true to Shakespeare, only the cock forgot to crow when the ghost appeared.”
“Instead of that,” some one else said, “an ass brayed.”
Don’t Meddle
A money lender once asked Garrick what he understood by “honesty”?
“Why should you want to know,” replied Garrick; “you had better not meddle with things that don’t concern you!”
Very Obliging
When a third-rate actor, playing Hugo in Müllner’s “Guilt,” stabbed himself, the audience cried: “Bravo! da capo!” (do it again). He jumped up, bowed, and stabbed himself a second time.