was remarkable.

Whilst on the stage

It was so all the evening, at once another man; with his exit the Cardinal was

he

LLLUSTRATED INTERVIETYS.

bhecame

stage from behind. of Mr. W, Lo Gladstone when he visits the Lyccum, and many other eminent men have

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It is the favourite scat

Mr. Irving had

completely forgotten. Once moment he occupied it would be m the act of relating some merry [ was sitting there quictly. ancedote, only to break away without a just made his exit, and was by my side.

word of warning, n the midst of 1t, and the recollection o the story was soon lost m listen- g to some magnificent speech,

The opportunity afforded mce of

wWas WwWit-

nessing the working of

a veritable little army ol stage hands behind the scenes. It s a perfect organization, and the conthusiasm displayed by the men, whether in sctting a scene or o brushing the crimson plush chairs in readiness for a change, scemed to tell that 1t was as much out of regard for the man under whom they labour as it was for But, when not with M. Irving, 1 spent most of 1y tume on a little wooden seat which has been let into the pro- scentum wall, and affords an excellent view of the

Wadges,

[Wi wizh

1s at Brighton.

Mr. IF'red.

L e was away from home when the photographer made the interview, and hence the mistake occurred of sclectin one that had been deseribed to Mr. Harry How.

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BETWEEN TIHE ACTS.

o diw attention to- o mistake which inadverteutly found it way Mr. George Augustus Sala, on page 61 of our July number. bust of the baby whicli is given in the illustr

“Comfortable scat?” he said, with a twinkle

i his cyes. “The Chinese Ambassador sat there onc night. We were playing “Hamlet” Miss Terry was 1 the midst of her mad scene. 1 was

just going round to scc how my honourced Celes-

tal friend was getting on. He was in the

act of walking on to the stage—the playingol Miss

- ‘I'erry had affected him so

that he was burning to congratulate her on the spot. I was only in the nick of time to hold him back; another half a foot

“and he would have made

his “first appearance |7 T wonder what the audience would have thought of the cntrance of somcbody in the most gorgeous of robes, whose name was not on the programme ?” Harry How.

into the Iustrated Interview,

It appears that Mr. Sala did not execute the ation by the side of the Dauphin’s cabinet, but another one which the photographs for the illustration of g Mr. Callcotts statuctte, thinking it had been the The one which appears in the Magazine was the work of Calleott, and was a gift by him to Mr. Sala.]