Things unforeseen my hand should force.

If all goes well, though, at that age

I mean to gladly quit the stage!

Meantime, until my time arrive,

I’m thirty-five! I’m thirty-five!

Truth Christmas Number. 1884.

Mrs. Kendal (of the St. James’s Theatre, London) read a paper on the modern stage at the Social Science Congress, held in Birmingham, in September, 1884. Some of the opinions she expressed gave great offence in theatrical circles.

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FAR AWAY.

A Song of Swindling Directors.