Word: rignold
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...stood on its head, and there was quite a vogue of giving the role of Romeo to such women as Lydia Kelly, Priscilla Horton, Ellen Tree, Mrs. H.B. Conway, and Charlotte Cushman (playing opposite her sister's Juliet until she herself switched to the female part). One year George Rignold was advertised to give a performance of Romeo with seven different Juliets, but the promise fell one short when an actress defected...
...Farnesian Hercules! they were taking out opera-glasses, - they were indeed! I knew that some of the fair sex had carried telescopes to the Globe to spy Rignold, but this, - this was an innovation...
...what was to be done? I was tired of promenading Washington Street. How would the theatre do? "Lemons," - "Fanchon," - too heavy; Rignold...
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