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...fling in his life-with Peg Woffington, a saucy and beautiful Irish actress. That done and over, he sedately married an Austrian dancer and lived as a respectable bourgeois. He did not mix well with his fellow actors, and was wretchedly sensitive to their gibes about his vanity. Garrick was indeed terribly vain-how could he help it? He had been praised enough to turn a man clear out of his mind. "More pains have been taken to spoil the fellow," said Sam Johnson, "than if he had been heir-apparent to the Emperor of India...
...Irish lass with Dublin in her heart and the London stage on her mind. The bright candle lights of success beckoned in the 18th century as strongly as today. Her name was not Lamarr but plan Woffington--just "Peg of Old Drury." Wrapped up in a brand new package of old English drama, Anna Neagle scales the heights of theatrical adoration and wins that greatest prize of all--a corner in the heart of immortal David Garrick. It is the old story of home town girl makes good. But it is fresh and appealing, steeped in the lore of England...
Victoria the Great (RKO Radio). Shaking from her pretty shoulders the garish costumes of two previous cinema roles-as Nell Gwyn and Peg Woffington -Britain's beloved Anna Neagle last week traced with pomp and piety Queen Victoria's long reign. Because the film is lengthy, because its subject is the most sanctified one in British history, awed critics detoured around its rough spots with wistful allusions to Helen Hayes and Victoria Regina, vaguely said that the picture, presenting almost precisely the same episodes as did Laurence Housman's play, was perhaps about as good...
...rarest of all is "The Prologue and Epilogue spoken at the opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane in 1747." The theatre opened with The Merchant of Venice. The Prologue which was written by Garrick, was spoken by Mrs. Woffington...
...Johnson's curious ménage at Gough Street?a party at the Thrales'?Mrs. Thrale's decision to marry Piozzi?Dr. Johnson's death?so run the four acts and among the actors are all the Johnsonian company, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Burke, Goldsmith, Boswell, Peg Woffington, down to Mr. Levett and even Bet Flint. An experiment comprising much diverting and edifying matter worthy the studious attention of all Johnsonians...