WHAT TO SAY
Next time a performance or a sermon is interrupted by a parent (because the parent does not sense when to remove a crying child) think of this from Bernard Miles and J.G. Trewin, Curtain Calls: “One evening in a country theatre, as the popular English actor John Philip Kemble(d. 1823) was performing one of his favorite parts, a baby in a gallery began squalling at an ever increasing pitch. Unable to endure a rival performance, Kemble walked solemnly to the front of the stage and addressing the audience in his most tragic tones, said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, unless the play is stopped, the child cannot possibly go on.'” Go on. Context, April 1, 1989.
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