[Vwoolf] Flush

[Christine Froula]

What a lovely morning laugh on this side of the Pond in these dark 
days--thanks, Stuart!--Christine

On 4/6/2022 3:36 AM, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:
> “... as Barbara Leslie found to her cost when she was ASM for a 
> production of ‘The Barretts of Wimpole Street’, in which the character 
> of Elizabeth has a spaniel called Flush. ‘As stage manager as well I 
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> “... as Barbara Leslie found to her cost when she was ASM for a 
> production of ‘The Barretts of Wimpole Street’, in which the character 
> of Elizabeth has a spaniel called Flush. ‘As stage manager as well I 
> had to borrow everything and I couldn’t borrow a spaniel to play 
> Flush, I had to borrow a bloody great dog that could hardly go on the 
> sofa! On the Saturday the owner was in the audience and Miles Rudge 
> was playing the doctor, he was giving a touching performance at 
> Elizabeth’s bedside and suddenly the dog recognized its owner, leapt 
> over the footlights and into the stalls and Miles, playing an old man 
> at the age of nineteen, suddenly became a very young man and leapt 
> after him to bring him back.’”
> Kate Dunn, “Exit through he Fireplace: The Great Days of Rep” (London: 
> John Murray, 1998), p. 183
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