 Kemble was performing, at some country theatre, one of his most favourite parts, he was much interrupted, from time to time, by the squalling of a young child in one of the galleries. At length, angered by this rival performance, Kemble walked with solemn...  The Irish harp, ed. by M.J. M'Cann - Page 48edited by Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 504 pages
...one of the galleries. At length, angered by thie rival performance, Kemble walked with solemn step to the front of the stage, and, addressing the audience...play is stopped the child cannot possibly go on." The effect on the audience of this earnest interference, in favour of the child, may be easily conceived.... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Poets, Irish - 1856 - 394 pages
...one of the galleries. At length, angered by this rival performance, Kemble walked with solemn step to the front of the stage, and, addressing the audience...play is stopped the child cannot possibly go on." The effect on the audience of this earnest interference, in favour of the child, may be easily conceived.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1857 - 612 pages
...the galleries, he came out not a little angry at the rival performance. Walking with a solemn step to the front of the stage, and addressing the audience in his most tragic tone, he said : " Unless the play is stopped the child cannot possibly go on." The loud laugh which... | |
 | 1885 - 720 pages
...interrupted by a squalling child in the gallery, came forward and said, with his usual quaint solemnity, " Ladies and Gentlemen, unless the play is stopped the child cannot possibly go on." Lord Malmesbury, perhaps in order to increase his knowledge of theology, assisted at a school examination... | |
 | Charles Kent - Biography - 1864 - 492 pages
...of the galleries, until at length, angered by this rival performance, Kemble walked with solemn step to the front of the stage, and, addressing the audience in his most tragic tone, said, " Ladies and gentlemen, unless the play is stopped the child cannot possibly go on." A... | |
 | 1872 - 502 pages
...in the audience, and having lost all patience, advanced to the front of the stage and exclaimed, " Ladies and gentlemen, unless the play is stopped the child cannot possibly go on." The uproar of applause which followed this aanouncement was enough both to quiet the child and to put... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - Wit and humor - 1899 - 534 pages
...may the Lord have mercy on his guilty sowl!" thinking for the moment that the scene was a reality. As absurd blunder is related in Tom Moore's " Diary"...play is stopped, the child cannot possibly go on." THERE was pluckiness in the appeal wrung from the unlucky representative of crook-backed Richard, who,... | |
 | James Mason - Biography - 1875 - 674 pages
...one of the galleries. At length, angered by this rival performance, Kemble walked with solemn step to the front of the stage, and addressing the audience...play is stopped, the child cannot possibly go on.' The effect on the audience of this earnest interference on behalf of the child may be conceived. Although... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - Wit and humor - 1899 - 548 pages
...squalling of a child in tho gallery, until at length, angered by this rival performance, Kemblo walked *ith solemn steps to the front of the stage, and addressing the audience in his most tragic tones, ^d: "Ladies and gentlemen, unless the play is stopped, the child cannot possibly go on." THERE was... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 284 pages
...one of the galleries. At length, angered by this rival performance, Kemble walked with solemn step to the front of the stage, and, addressing the audience...play is stopped, the child cannot possibly go on.' The effect on the audience of this earnest interference in favour of the child may beeasily conceived."... | |
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