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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: handsome features were surmounted by a low-crowned hat, curled up at the side brims like a bishop's. As he jauntily made his way through the crowd, swinging a light Malacca cane, stopping every now and then to look into the windows of the shops, my father pointed him out to me, and said, There goes Richard Jones. Why, he must be now nearly seventy. He died seven years afterwards, at the age of seventy-four. As a comedian Jones was perhaps the best of his day. He was good enough, at least, for the late Charles Mathews to take him for his model. But old Glasgow stagers, who thirty years ago could say they had seen the acting of both, used to say that, however good Jones was, Mathews was a great deal better. chapter{Section 4CHAPTER VII. On the 12th August, 1809, the following advertisement appeared in the Herald and Courier:? To be Sold, within the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, upon Wednesday, the i6th August current, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, the whole Movable Scenery, Dresses, Decorations, and Furniture, which belonged to Mr. Beaumont, the late manager. The following January (1810) saw the theatre under the new management of Messrs. Hartley and Trueman, With the New Year, 1812, the theatre was reopened under the management of Mr. Montgomerie. On January the 27th came down for the first time Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kemble. Kemble, who was then over forty years of age, had but just emerged in London from a fairly capable walking gentleman into a light comedian and tragedian, and followed closely in the mannerisms of his brother. His appearance at once ingratiated him with his Queen Street audience. His hero-face, his mellow and manly voice, and his breadth of style and culture, all won for him a favourable reception. He opened as Hamlet, which was regarded as a car...
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