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...superlative exclamations - "It is simply magnificent!" "It is unequalled!" 20f. The sifflet a succes, or "the friendly hiss," is not, we learn, supplied under 20f. The item which strikes our fancy most is the "moan followed by applause at the end" of a murder scene, for which the groanist gets 10s. 5d. "a go." The profession of actor is often a lucrative one; of a playwright who hits the popular taste, a brilliantly paid one; but the man who could get continuous orders for "moans followed by applause" at the rate of half-a-guinea a sigh would do better...
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