Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...Park, the popular comedian, Mr. Nat Goodwin, will present his rather good play of "The Member for Slocum," by George R. Sims, the London playwright...
...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 business than either...