Shouts and Murmurs - Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights #227727

One day some one asked him point-blank what his roles there had been. He had to explain then that his talent had always been devoted to off stage noises. Finally he showed a Drury Lane program, yellowed and creased and wine-stained. There his name was at the end of the cast and Opposite it was the role assigned him — Shout: and Murmurs. Old fable.