Identifier: recollectionsofp00wils (find matches)
Title: Recollections of a player
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wilson, Francis, 1854-1935
Subjects: Actors and actresses
Publisher: New York : Printed at the De Vinne Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Queens Lace Handkerchief. The field was anew one, the salary high, and much was expected ofme on the first night,— very much more than wasrealized,— and as I stood leaning against a railthinking over the matter, McCaulls bluff Well, you were pretty d d bad, were nt you ? was anything but reassuring. However, I had markedout the squares, and with his permission I graduallybut surely filled them in so satisfactorily that beforelong he had voluntarily increased my salary andconstantly referred to me as his protege, his find.This opera was continued for a prosperous run ofmany weeks in Philadelphia. We went to New York when Colonel McCaullbecame the manager of the amusements at theNew York Casino, and opened that house withThe Queens Lace Handkerchief, which wasfollowed by a production of The Princess ofTrebizonde, I appearing as Tremolini. It is amatter of much pride to reflect that McCaullsfortunes, which were so low at the time of myjoining him, improved steadily from that moment,
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Mr. Wilson as THE BARO\,IN Our Goblins. As PRUTCHESKO, IN APAJUNE. Recollections of a Player. 41 nor did they ever retrograde during the periodof my engagement to him. I seemed to be notonly his protege, but his mascot. Later we gave Prince Methusalem, in whichI enjoyed playing Sigisniumi very much, and TheDotlet on the Eye song did a great deal to excitethe popular taste for topical verses. Then we returned to Philadelphia and presentedThe Merry War, in which Balthazar the tulip-grower fell to my care. Falka followed, Iplaying Folbach, and at the close of that seasonI went to Europe for a summer vacation. On my return I began my next season withMcCaull in the New York Casino, appearing inApajune as Prutchesko, the rakish but wrong-fully suspected husband, which was to me one ofthe most enjoyable parts I had ever played. I gave a burlesque of Mr. Jules Levy, the famouscornetist, in one of the scenes of this opera. Oneevening, just as I was preparing myself for thisimitation, I caught

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