Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1890 — Hard on the manager. [ARTICLE]

Hard on the manager.

Argonaut. Cheery John Maclean made his first appearance in London at the Surrey as Peter Purcell in “The Idiot of the Mountain.” Shepherd and Creswick were the managers of the theater, then, and Maclean was standing one day at tho bar of Rooney’s, whon a kind friend pointed out the newly engaged actor to Shepherd, who, having been ill, had not yet seen him. “You’re playing in ray theator, Mr. Maclean?” Shepherd bawled. "Pm playing in The Idiot of the Mountain, sir,” Maclean replied, half timidly. ••Glad to hear It, sir; glad to hear it!” Shepherd exclaimed. "You're not tho Idiot, surely?” f “No. &lr.” Maclean answered, with a serious face; “the manager wkn ,-u. gaged me is the idiot!”