Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1886 — Realistic Acting. [ARTICLE]

Realistic Acting.

Miggles and his Wife were rehearsing for some private theatricals, wherein the lady was supposed to be chiding her husband for returning so late from a convivial party. Miggles got somewhat out of temper at the tameness of his wife’s acting, and petulantly exclaimed : "You are too cold, and not realistic enough, my dear. Throw a littlfe more life in the character. Just imagine it was all real. What would you do were I to come home in a state

of inebriety about midnight?" After Miggles had his hair pulled out by the roots, his head battered so that it looked like, dough, bis eyes in mourning, and his body mopped over the floor several times, Mrs. M. sweetly exclaimed: “Is there life enough in that, my dear? Was I too cold, my darling? What do you think of such a realistic effect, my sweetest?”— Ooodall’s Chicago Sun.