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Old Drury Lane ;.;::/; OLD DRURY LANE. OLD DRURY LANE FIFTY YEfiRS' RECOLLECTIONS AUTHOR, ACTOR, AND MANAGER BY EDWARD STIRLING IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. I ou lion CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY 1881 [All Right* Rttttvtd] CONTENTS OF VOL. I. BOOK I. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF THE AUTHOR FROM SCHOOL-DAYS TO THE PRESENT TIME. CHAPTER PAGE 1 3 II 12 111 37 iv. ... .44 v. 55 vr 71 VII 89 VIII I ! ; ix 130 x 151 XI * '97 vi Contents. BOOK II. RECORDS OF DRURY LANE AND ITS LESSEES AND MANAGERS, WITH A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF HER MAJESTY'S OPERA. CHAPTER PAGE 1 213 II 226 III 238 iv '255 v 273 VI 289 vii 318 viii 324 ix 344 OLD DRURY LANE. BOOK I. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF THE AUTHOR FROM SCHOOL-DAYS TO THE PRESENT TIME. VOL. I. CHAPTER I. The Author's birthplace School-days at Southwark Southwark Fair Samuel Pepys' account Bul- lock's Booth Original Bill of 1728 Fielding and Reynolds's Great Theatrical Booth The Author's first appearance on the Stage Samuel Phelps The ' Temple of Arts ' in Catherine-street * Tom ' ' and Jerry The Brown Bear,' and its landlord, Ikey Solomons* A New Way to Pay Old Debts.' I WAS born at Thame in Oxfordshire in the year 1807, an<^ received my education at Queen Elizabeth's Latin School, South- wark, the ancient Southwark of our Saxon forefathers, a famous place for hostelries ' and inns the old ' Tabard of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Sam Weller's quar- ters, the 'White Hart' Inn, ranking first in the affection and regard of lovers of i 2 Old Drury Lane. olden time. Here vas held annually the famous fair so graphically described by Mr. Samuel Pepys in his Diary, and once resorted to by Court and City. Charles II. and a bevy of royal favourites shared in the fun and merriment of this popular fair. Theatrical booths filled a prominent place in the festivities : first among the number was BULLOCK'S* BOOTH, of which the following is an Original Bill, bearing date 1728 : * During the time of Southwark Fair will be held, and presented an excellent Droll, called ' " THE PERJURED PRINCE, Or the Martyred General" with the humours of Squire Calveshead, his Mother and Sister Hoyden, and his man Aminadab. The part of the * Bullock was an actor at the King's Theatre. Old Drury Lane. ' SQUIRE, Mr. Bullock ; HOYDEN, by Mrs. Willis ; and all the parts by persons from the Theatre in Drury Lane, with several entertainments of Singing and Dancing, particularly the Fingall Dance by Mr. Smith and Mrs. Ogden. * N.B. The clothes are entirely new as well as the Scenes, which are painted in an excellent manner by an Artist/ 'At FIELDING AND REYNOLDS'S GREAT THEATRICAL BOOTH, in the Talbot Inn Yard* by the Company of Comedians from the new Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, during the time of the Fair, will be performed at Twelve o'Clock "'THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. All the songs and dances, set to music, as Chaucer's 'Tabard.' Old Drury Lane. performed at the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields.' The Daily Post, August, 1728. My first advent on the stage, though it could hardly be called a public one, was at the mature age of fourteen, in the year 1821, at a small Thespian Temple in Rawstorne-street, Goswell-road. The late Samuel Phelps was one of the amateur actors in our motley troupe. We paid to act. Prices ran high for Shakesperian heroes. Thirty shillings enabled the for- tunate possessor to strut and fret his hour as Othello or Macbeth. Fifteen shillings was the price paid for the Thane of Fife. Malcolm went at seven Macbeth ; Lady fetched high prices, according to the ladies' purses. Edward Friz-Ball's then popular drama, * The Innkeeper of Abbeville/ being selected for representation, I paid seventeen good shillings for the privilege Old Drury Lane. of enacting an innocent ostler, wrongfully accused of murder (Ozzrand). Unfortu- nately the piece was never destined to reach its conclusion, our curtain dropping at one in the morning on the first act, not to rise the second me out of upon ; cutting a desperate combat with the real murderer, Dyrkile, and a sensational death in a vir- tuous cause. The manager vouchsafed but a surly and cynical reply to my remon- strances at thus being deprived of dying : ' Stuff! the lamps are going out who's to see a chap die in the dark ?' This was unanswerable. Nothing ap- peased, however, I tried another stage, the rumple of Arts' (now the Echo Office) in h(rin( -street, Strand. Here economy ruled the and ; market was cheaper, prices much lower in the dramatic scale. For eight shillings I purchased an old man 1 (\\ aKlcmar in ' William Tell and ) Tommy ' (low comedy) in All at Coventry.' At the 8 Old Drury Lane. conclusion of our performances, kindly Smithson, the manager, patted me on the shoulder, saying : ' You'll do next time better, my boy, ; try tragedy you shall have a "cock of the walk" for a pound Octavian in the " Mountaineers." My finances, however, never reached such an eminence as a ' cock of the walk.' I played the Hon. Dick Trifle in the then ' great attraction of the day, Tom and Jerry,' dramatised from Pierce Egan's ' Life in London,' and first produced at Astley's in an equestrian shape with real horses, donkeys, etc. The renowned pugilists, Tom Cribb and Spring, boxed in the circle. Tyrone Power (an unrivalled Irish comedian) was the original Corin- thian Tom. This extraordinary piece made the fortunes of half the managers in England : for three successive seasons it kept the Adelphi stage with houses Old Drury Lane. crowded nightly. A fine cast helped it : Corinthian Wrench greatly Tom, ; Jerry, ; Wilkinson Burroughs Logic, ; Jemmy Green, Keeley ; Trifle, Bellamy ; Dusty Walbourn Mrs. Bob, ; Sue, Waylett ; Kate, Miss Scott ; African Sal, Saunders ; etc. The ' Brown Bear' in Goodman's Fields next opened its claws to grasp my slender means. A Jew, one I key Solomons (lineally descended from Shylock), the landlord of ' the Bear/ fitted up a dirty club-room with a few paltry scenes, and a ragged green baize curtain, and illuminated the floor with half-a-dozen oil-lamps. This I key called a ' Thc-a-tar to had in,' that is, if you could pay. Lord Lovell in 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts' cost me two-and-sixpence, dress included. This at night, to my horror, I found to consist of my own frock-coat, russet boots, a torn scarf, and a bearskin grenadier's cap. It is said that dress mal tin: man, but it never made a 'lord* like this. io Old Drury Lane. I key's room was filled with an uproarious assemblage : sailors and their female friends, Jews, lascars, workmen with their i wives and families of beer ' ; pots and goes' of gin, tobacco and pipes were in constant request, and went the round of the com- pany to any amount, whilst I key Solomon's voice was always in the ascendant, crying out ' Give yer orders,' and scolding his waiters, Moses and Aaron. I need not say our efforts on the stage could not be heard without some difficulty and under con- siderable disadvantage amid this universal din. Just at the critical moment when Lady Allworth, the rich widow, cries out as wicked Sir Giles Overreach draws his sword, and the audience are worked up to agony-point, I key bawled out in a tone ' more of sorrow than of anger, Aaron, there's that 'ere sailor, and a go of rum, a-bolting without paying. Stan' afore the door.' another Not syllable was heard ; Old Drury Lane. 1 1 the ragged baize dropped amidst yells of ' laughter, and cries of Go it, I key.' No more Brown, Black or White Bears for my money, depend upon it,' reader, after this escapade ! CHAPTER II. Bartholomew Fair Crawley's Booth Lee and Har- ' per's Great Theatrical Booth 'The Beggar's Opera Fun of the Fair in 1822 Richardson's Show Gyngell the great Conjuror Jack Saunders Wombwell's Menagerie Richardson's Theatre * ' The Tyrant of the Eagle Castle on the Rhine A Norfolk Giant Little Miss Biffin A Real Mer- maidA Smithfield Ball. MY next venture was at Bartlemy Fair, the cockney saturnalia of high and low degree. Gentle and simple flocked alike to worship at old St. Bartlemy's shrine. * Come, bustle, neighbour Sprig, Buckle on your hat and wig, In our Sunday clothes so gaily, Let us strut up the Old Bailey. O ! the Devil take the rain ! never We may go again ; See, the shows have begun : oh, rare oh !' Old Song. Old Drury Lane. 13 This renowned fair had been held for many centuries, by royal grant from Henry I. It was always inaugurated with civic pomp and pageantry. In old Rowley's days of general revelry puppet-plays held hi^h place in public estimation. Court, city, and mob went hand-in-hand to old Bartlemy's festival Jack was as good as his master. The following is one of the old bills of a century and a half ago : ' CRAWLEY'S BOOTH, " Over against the Crown," in Smithfield. During the Fair-time of St. Bartholomew, will be presented a little Opera, called ' " THE OLD CREATION OF THE WORLD," yet newly revived, with the addition of ' NOAH'S ARK. Also several Fountains playing real Water during the time of the Play. 1 The last scene does present Noah and 14 Old Drury Lane.
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