You look about thirty, and as big and black as a villain in a play.

Oh, I've got a splendid idea! You are just the thing for Arbaces in The Last Days of Pompeii.

We want to act it; have the lion and the gladiators and the eruption.

Tom and Ted are going to shower bushels of ashes down and roll barrels of stones about.

We wanted a dark man for the Egyptian; and you will be gorgeous in red and white shawls.