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DRAWBACKS OF SUCCESS. 



Mr. Kdgar was talking to Mrs. Harvey about the 

 difficulties and pleasures of an actor's life: — 



■' People il<> imt separate Sidney U.iitoii from Murtin 

 llar\e.v i>r .Muni from myself." said .Mrs. Harvey, "especially 

 ihe s.iiipler playgoers. They imagine we live the life of 

 the play. They identify us with ttie actnal 8elf-sa<'rifl(e of 

 S.dney Carton and Mimi. This is \ery emh.arrassing-, and 

 hiw proved a iliihcult influence to Hifht. It makes the 

 (■hoi<'e of plays very uncertain, and all our new plays ha^e 

 to fight their way against this stranse inflneiu e. Mr 

 riarvey in a new play. w!n<-h presents him in a diflerent 

 light — say The Bree<l of the Treshams '- offends some 

 proportion of <mr audience at first. They siuip'y will not 

 re<ou<ile liis <onduct in the new part with the exalted 

 • ipinion they ha\e formed of Sidney Carton. If I play 

 4-onie<iy I offend those gentle people w-ho find .Minii their 

 ide.il. T am Mimi to. them, and when I play some part 

 (luite diflerent. they fo€l:- and say— " That is not what Mimi 

 would have done." They love the old play, and we dare 

 not change a button on the costumes- When I changed 

 the colour of Mimi's dress the protests were so many that 

 the old costume ha*i to he replaced exaotly as before." 



A " SLOW " STORY. 



Here is one story told by Martin Harvey against 

 himself. Describing the rehearsal of one of his 

 plays, he .savs : — 



" Well, daddy." I saiil. stopping in the passage. " how 

 did you like the play?" 



H« pondered the question deeply. 



"A little slow, ft'jmetimes." he said at length, and with 

 great gravity. 



"Where is it a'.ow?" I asked, 



Wright e.ved me with increasing defiance in his benevo- 

 lent old eyes. 



" Do you w.mt to know?" he asketl. " Do you want the 

 truth?" 



" Ye«. of course!" I replied. *' Where is it slow?" 



"Whenever you come on," he said, passing gravely on 

 his way. " Vol! want the truth, and now you've got it." 



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