Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1886 — A Mean Trick. [ARTICLE]

A Mean Trick.

The subject of actors’ vanity might yield endless stories. Everybody knows that it is a failing that runs down from the highest in the profession to the lowest “supe.” Pardon me for an illustration from the lowest round. It was in one of Lawrence Barrett’s Boston engagements, and the hero was the useful actor whose duty it is to come on and say to Barrett, “Forgive me, master, 1 slew your horse,” whereupon Barrett strikes him down. The heroic Lucullus was one day chiding a friend for not coming to see his performance. “Why, me boy, it’s the great hit of me life,” said he. “My fall last night took the house right off it’s feet; it was simply immense. They was bound to have me before the curtain, but just as I was going on Barrett shoved me out of the way and took the call himself. It was a d—d mean trick.”— Cor. Minneapolis Tribune.

A few days ago, in the course of some excavations at the Acropolis, Athens, near the Erectheum, three statues of women, in an excellent state of preservation, half as large again -as life, with large heads, and completely colored, were discovered. They belong to the period before Phidias, are delicately finished, anil are of an archaic art, admirably preserved.