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Title: Life and art of Richard Mansfield, with selections from his letters
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Winter, William, 1836-1917
Subjects: Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907
Publisher: New York : Moffat, Yard and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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omedian. Constant Coque-lin, notably one of the most self-satisfied of men,chanced to say to liim: I must always have oneplace, at least, in the course of every performance,where I can go to sleep for a few moments. Youare lucky, answered Mansfield, if there is onlyone place where your audience goes to sleep. Hisplayfulness could be quizzical as well as tart. Once,when his business affairs were in disorder and law-suits, brought by various actors, were pendingagainst him, he ruminantly remarked to me: Theseactors are strange persons! When they are idle,and have nothing else to do, I believe they gettogether and say: Lets all go and sue Mansfield! Speaking of another occasion, when his scenery andreceipts had been attached, on a Saturday night, ata theatre in a New England town, he said to me:My agent went running all over the place, scratch-ing fellows on the wrist, to find a Free-Mason whowould stand surety for us. It sometimes pleasedhim to practice on the credulity of the newspaper
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Courtesy of Mr. Vivian Burnilt RICHARD MANSFIKI-D, MRS. MANSF^IELD, AND GEORGEGIBBS MANSFIELD HIS HUMOR 299 inter\aewer, and one consequence of that prankishpropensity was the pubhcation of various ridiculousstories about him. Prior to his production ofJuKus Csesar, for example, he imparted to aninterviewer the impression that he intended todouble the parts of Brutus and Ccesar, and a seri-ous statement that such actually was his purposeappeared in print. Once, on a Staten Island ferry-boat, he was sitting near to a boy who wore a capwith three feathers in it. The child carelessly tookoff his cap, and, swinging it, knocked the feathersout. The actor immediately picked them up andgave them to the lad, saying, kindly: When you area httle older, my boy, you will be more careful ofthe feathers in your cap. The feathers in his owncap were in some peril at that time, as he had recentlyadded to his heavy responsibilities the burden ofmanaging the Garrick Theatre. His sportive humoris suggest

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