"The Old Stager and the New " ( 1835 ) written as a vehicle for comedian John Liston to introduce the new recruit Charles James Mathews; the former was shown as a traditional kind of coachman and the latter as his son.
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In his first memoirs, " As Berry & I Were Saying ", he recalls his involvement in the trial of the poisoner Hawley Harvey Crippen, when he returned from acting with the Old Stagers, at Canterbury, to have first look at the legal brief.
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For an old stager like myself, who vividly remembers the intraparty struggles that bedeviled the Democrats in at Chicago in 1968 and Miami in 1972, it is astonishing to witness the willingness of this convention to accept-- indeed, embrace-- the men who fought that once-reviled war, who were so widely shunned for so long.
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Though " Oliver Optic " was the pseudonym he used most, his work also appeared under the bylines " Irving Brown, " " Clingham Hunter, M . D ., " and " Old Stager . " Like many children's authors of his day, he was additionally an editor, and many of his works first appeared in " Oliver Optic's Magazine ".
