Play ruined by disturbance

[packman]

By William O'Reilly

Tonight, after paying my 75cent admission, I settled down to a first row seat eagerly anticipating the performance of the celebrated British Actress Laura Keene and her touring New York company in a comedy, Our American Cousins.. I met and interviewed Mr. John W. Booth, the renowned American Shakespearean actor, earlier who expressed his delight in being able to view the play this night. The audience was abuzz with the excitement that President Lincoln would be attending and sitting in a balcony heavily decorated with bunting overlooking the stage. His late arrival, well after the play began did not subtract from the peals of laughter and light-hearted atmosphere the play spun that night. Unfortunately , later events drew a pall over the whole evening.

[eppur_se_muova]

1. "Other than that,how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

I can't remember where I first heard that -- but for cluelessness it's a good match to Mr. ORLY.