Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — When Irving Was Hissed. [ARTICLE]

When Irving Was Hissed.

Sir Henry Irving recently told the following story about his early experience: “In my early days I accepted a stock engagement at a provincial theater, and did not know until I got there that I had been put into the place of an actor who was locally very popular. He had not left, I believe, on altogether good terms with the management; so the audience vented their spleen upon his successor. I was that unfortunate person, and for a whole week or more Iwas hissed every night; not for my bad acting, but out of love for my predecessor. I remember bow every night I walked to my rooms, some two miles out of town, very wretched, and walked in again the next night no less miserable. To this day I never pass the place by railway without a shudder.”