Autobiography of An Actress; Or, Eight Years On the Stage
Autobiography of An Actress; Or, Eight Years On the Stage
Ritchie Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt
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I had passed out of the narrow limit to which an actor's malice could reach. Half an hour before, I had stood upon the very brink of failure. By a sudden transition of feeling within myself, a similar revulsion had been produced upon the audience, and their verdict was reversed. That verdict we re- ceived at the close of the fifth act, in front of the cur- tain. The " call " had never before imparted to me a sensation of such intense pleasure. I needed this marked assurance that I had removed t...he impression made by my apathetic acting through three weary acts of the play. Mr. Davenport escaped the annoyances to which I had been subjected. The part of Clifford is not one in 282 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ACTRESS. which he could exhibit the extent of his talents ; but his fine person, manlj bearing, and quietly earnest act- ing won ready favor. It was six months before I wholly recovered from the mental efifects of that first night upon a London stage. CHAPTER XVI. London Editors, — The Daily Times and the Earl of Carlisle.
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