Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER H. Reminiscences of Dublin continued—Jack Johnstone—His successful career as a delineator of Irish Character—Gives his daughter 20,000Z. on her marriage with James Wallack —Robert William Elliston—Holman and Elliston compared—Conway—Mrs. Jordan's debut in Dublin—Death of an Actor on the Stage—Williams—First appearance of Thomas Phillipps the Vocalist—Salaries fifty years ago —Miss Smith (Mrs. Hartley) as Lady Macbeth — Mrs. Stewart and Mrs. Liston—The Misses Dykes—Tom Cooke and the Orchestra of the Dublin Theatre—Cooke's success as a Vocalist—Amateur theatricals at Kilkenny, with Moore the Poet, and Sir Wm. Beecher, Miss O'Neill's husband, in the cast—Remarkable marriages of Actresses —How to cure a stage-struck youth—Horsewhipping Lord Randolph. Dublin, in former days, was considered an El Dorado for the London stars, where they reaped a harvest that enabled them to add to the store they were laying by for the winter of life. Of all the popular men of London, Jack John- stone was more favoured and courted than any other, not only on account of his nationality, but in consequence of his unapproachable talent in either the Irish gentleman or the peasant. His rich and delicious singing, and his agreeable and sociable JACK JOHNSTONE—INCLEDON. 29 manners, gained the hearts of gentle and simple in his native city. There have been many excellent actors in the low Irishman, but there has been only one comedian that could delineate the refined Irish gentleman, and enter into the genuine unsophisticated humour of a son of the Emerald Isle with equal talent. There is not much difficulty in creating laughter, like the clown in the ring, by uttering the usual number of jokes put into the mouth of the bogtrotter, or skipping about the stage as the Irish valet, disp...