Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1883 — Hamlet and Yankee Doodle. [ARTICLE]

Hamlet and Yankee Doodle.

While Barry Sullivan was traveling in this country a few years ago and playing “Hamlet,” a member of his company who played Guildenstern was, or margined himself to be, a firstclass musician. Hamlet asks him: “Will you play upon this pipe-?” “My Lord, I cannot. ” “I do beseech you. ” “Well, if your Lordship insists uponit, I shall do as well as I can.” And, to Hamlet’s confusion and the audience’s amusement, he played “Yankee Doodle.” It was all he knew.—Cincinnati Enquirer.