 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1882 - 486 σελίδες
...buckram ; and " Cato " was, therefore, selected for his first essay. He " discharged the character " in the same costume as it is to be supposed was adopted...stockings, black gloves, and a powdered periwig. Foote waited till the customary round of applause given to the actor on his entrance had subsided, and then... | |
 | Albert Ellery Berg - 1884 - 826 σελίδες
...stage-buckram, and " Cato " was therefore selected for the first essay. He " discharged the character " in the same costume as it is to be supposed was adopted...planted himself in the pit, when Digges stalked on before the public thus formidably accoutered. The malicious wag waited till the customary round of... | |
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discharged the character,' in the same costume as it is to be supposed was adopted by Booth, when the play was originally acted, that is in a shape, as it was technically termed, of the stiffest order, decorated with gilt leather upon a black ground,... 
