CHAPTER XV

Managers and actors I have known. P. T. Barnum. A wonderful organiser. How a big circus travels. Barnum’s consideration for his company. His little speeches. General Tom Thumb. Signor Foli and Frank Celli. Sir Augustus Harris a born showman. The elder Harris and his glossy hat. The value of an advertisement. My “benefit” at Drury Lane and why it was a frost. I miss my chance in the Drury Lane Pantomime, 1890-91, “Beauty and the Beast.” An unrehearsed incident. I play “Mercury” in “Venus.” I am “Hamlet” at Richardson’s show in the Olympic Carnival. A Scottish “Ghost.” A new view of “Hamlet.”