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HILDA WADE

stage: and all those who have witnessed his immensely popular performance of the Drunken Gentleman before the Bow Street Police Court acknowledge without reserve that, after 'failing for everything,' he has dropped at last into his true vocation. His impersonation of the part is said to be 'nature itself.' I see no reason to doubt it.