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Several different figurines of Liston as Pry were produced, based on contemporary engravings, after his huge success in John Poole's play <i>Paul Pry</i> which opened at London's Haymarket Theatre on 13 September 1825. The play was enormously popular throughout the 19th century. Paul Pry's catch-phrases 'I hope I don't intrude', 'Just dropped in' and 'It's nothing to me' were quoted everywhere, and the name Paul Pry became a well-known term for a busybody. \r\n\r\nListon achieved his greatest successes in farce, particularly as Paul Pry, but was well known for several other roles which were also seen in drawings, painting, engravings and figurines. An expert dancer, he became the highest-paid comedian on the stage, earning between sixty and a hundred pounds a week at the Olympic Theatre, a huge salary for his day. 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