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GREAT ACTORS WHOSE FAME IS LINKED with the POET's the Second Wallack's Theatr from 18(1 T Some Traphlo Force the Working of Tk Kw U82 THE SUN, SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1916. GREAT ACTORS WHOSE FAME IS LINKED WITH THE POET'S the second Wallack's Theatr from 18(1 t some traphlo force the working of tk kW U82. In 1882 ho opened the third and last of taste tn literature. Edwin Booth Wallack's Theatre at Thirtieth street ana The repute that Shakespeare aoaaJsM H Broadway, which he conducted with great his lifetime, though It was rarely deflMa with subtlety, BOOTH wtw the second Bon of liberality and artistic success, although was In spirit all that J EDWIN Brutus llooth, tho celebrated tho financial results were less satisfactory. dlclous admirers could desire. The ary nctor, and was horn In Ho himself was a popular actor, espe- JofinTfacxuUouQt estimate was authorltatltoly llelalr, Marylaihl, November IS, cially in comedy. Ills greatest successes ummed up tn the epitaph which wm In- wore on Htratford-on-Avo- 1WI. Ills Mrt regular appearance un tho as Charles Burfaca, aa Benedick and scribed his monument In n stago wns At Uic Boston Museum In Sep- especially as JJIHot Urey In his own play, ohurch soon after his death. In that "Kn.scdalc," comedy inscription tember. 1849, with his father In "Hlchurd and in similar light and ha was hailed as the equal of Members of the thentrlcnl pretension, romantic parts, for which his fascinating great l.eroes of classical antiquity of Nes- lilt" manner person welt fitted In who held the elder Booth's noting In great and handsome tor wisdom, of Socrates li genius, of reverence, seemed to agree lilm. He was tho author of several other Virgil tn literary art; ho was acknowledged that the gcnlm. plays, Is hud not descended on tho son. but "Hosedalc" the best known of In plain terms to be tho greatest of contem- of the father his works. He nlso wrote his own "Mem- porary His father, too, was disappointed with his writers; all living writers were de- ories of fifty Years." sjlj clared to be worthy only to serve him as acting. Ho Booth's appearance In New married a sister of Sir John Mlllala. psges or menials. Edwin first Ho died at Htamford, Conn., In 1881. Tork was at tho Nutlonal Theatre In Chat- Shakespeare's epitaph, the significance of ham street In September, 18,10. A year .ssslsl stlsl which Is not always appreciated, justllea later In consequence of tho Illness of the no doubt of the supremacy that he enjoyed elder Booth tho son took his place, In tho John Maccullough In the English world of letters of his own part of .Richard III, It was not until tho day. The homage of literary contempor- death of his father, however, that IiIh bril- John Maccullough was bora at Blakes, aries was confirmed without faltering and liant acting won recognition. Ho toured near Colcralne, Londonderry, Ireland, Nor. in finer phrase by Milton, the next occu- extensively and his Hamlet. Klchard and 14, 1832, of extremely poor parents. Ills pant of ths throne of English letters. RtcheHru were highly praised. father was unable to provide for his large No subsequent change of literary tut In 189S he became manager of tho Wln-t- r family and In 1847 John and hts slstsr Jane or literary fashion In England really Garden Theatre, New York, where he emigrated to America. Thsy had heard of dimmed Shakespeare's fame. In the day) gave a series of Shakespearian produc- a cousin named John Maocullouffh In Phila- of the Restoration, Dryden humbly ac tions of a magnificence unexampled up to delphia. Tho Immigrant boy and hla Isnowledged dlsclpleshlp to him. Some cen- that time. The splendor of this period of sister found htm and John obtained work sure he suffered from thoughtless lips; but his career, however, was temporarily ex- In his cousin's chair factory. the right to the rank of classic, which had tinguished when In 1863 his brother, John His dramatic faculty was deyeloped by been granted him as soon as the breath Wilkes Booth, assassinated President Lin- tho accident of his association with a left his body, was never effectually dis- coln. The three Booth brothers, Junius mngestruck fellow workman In the shop. puted. Brutus, Edwin and John Wilkes, had He made his first appearance on the stage The formal critics of the eighteenth cen- played together In "Julius Cn-sar- In tho at the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, tury sought to show that much of hts autumn of the previous year the perform- under the management of William RnssssssssssssssslB work deviated from formal standards or ance being memorable both for its own Wheatley and John Draw In 1167. Ills from rules of formal art. But these cen- excellence and for the tragic situation riio In the dramatic profession was gradual. sors gave 'him the worship of Incessant Into which two of the prlnclp.il performers In support of Kdwln Booth and Edwin BBssssssssssssssssKiHsBMss study. They edited and annotated hts writ- were hurled by the subsequent crime of played II1SsssssssssssH3sssssssBfJ( gen- appear Forrest he second roles In Shake- ings, with the result that a succeeding the third. Edwin Booth did not spearian and other tragedies. Forrest left eration of readers acquired a more ac- stage some o.i- - I, on tho for time after tho him by will all his prompt books. In 1881, curate comprehension of his work than was ssssinauon. men no piayca uamici ai when he accompanied Forrest to California progress Theatre, audtenco possible before. The triumphal the Winter Garden tho he was received with Immediate and un- of Shakespeare's reputation was stimulated showing by unstinted applause that no common favor. He remained tn Call grudge was held against him on account of by eighteenth century research and criti- infamy fornla with the consent of Forrest and cism to a quicker pace. the of his brother. undertook, with his distinguished contem- 1889 Booth built a theatre of his own The critical faculty of the nation was In porary, Lawrence Barrett, the management open- at Twenty-thir- d street and Sixth avenue, especially acute and sagacious at the of the California Theatre, and writers have ing of the ninteeenth century, and Sheka-speare- 's Hew Tork, and organized a splendid stock period company was distinguished by us- declared that this was a brilliant preeminence was then sees In which chapter In the history of the dramatlo ing the true text of Shakespeare, thus an- sharper outline and In fuller rondeur than profession on the Pacific coast. any epoch. sympathetic In- tedating by several years a similar reform greatest t at earlier The tn Rmrland. Tn 1874 Booth failed flnan- - Virninlua was his success, and tuition of three early nineteenth century he K ,,' dally, It was many years before he played that part and others with favor critics Coleridge, Lamb and Hazlltt re- and in New London. 1884 p rebuilt his fortune. He converted his resi- York and In he mains unsurpassed. But there has been no down mentally physically c . m i dence on Gramrrcy Park Into the riayers broke and and ai vzsssssssssb". r .v tr assart j, f r W4 hiw trace of retrogression In the wise and rea- died In on asylum In Philadelphia In 1885. ivsnjw3 it .rr lwtaa xz' Club for the elect of the profusion, retain- 24t&'&Tt soned enthusiasm of later generations of ing only a small apartment for himself, William Winter, In a remarkable sketch reading public. of Maccullough, says: Mac- - j tho where he died June 7, 1893. "When John The history of Shakespeare's fame is in- cullough, a youth of 16, came to America His most famous part was Hamlet, for rtJG7lGCllCJC deed that of a flowing tide; the ebbing was gifts lie could read nut lie could not write, tie long enough sustained to give It gen- which his extraordinary peculiarly received no education and was In Ignorance never fitted him. Ho protwbly played the part uine Importance; the forward march was of literature and art. Dying thirty-eig- ht oftener than any other actor beforo or years never seriously Impeded, and Is from start later, he had become a man of large commanding of since. and varied mental acquirements, a con- to finish the feature the siderable scholar in the dramatic profes- chronicle. sion, and the most conspicuous heroic ac- Lawrence Barrett tor of his time on the American stage. Such a career, beginning In obscure and Ignorant penury nr.d ending in culture, honorable ' manager, sol- aMsija Lawrence Barrett, actor, eminence, prosperity and fame, is extraor- lsLsV JSmKii HOW THE BIBLE INSPIRED MANY dier and biographer, was born of Irish dinary, and In dramatic annals It makes parents April 4, 1838, at Putcraon, N, J. John Maccullough a memorable name." Ills family name was Branulgau. Hu THINGS IN SHAKESPEARE made his first stage uppeurunce at Detroit ns Jlurml in "The French Spy" In 1853. In December, 1S56, he made his Unit Now Fanny Davenport ANY persons confuse the Bible and 8hakespeare in placing quotations. The York appearance in, "Tho Hunchback." reason to twofold. FlrsJ, elevated thought may be expected of either, and Il;s career as a soldier in the Civil War Fanny Lily Gipsy Davenport was the , second, the Authorized Version was produced In 1611, Jut when Shakespeare th"e M was distinguished. He served as captain daughter of celebrated actor Edward was at the height of his career, so that the English of the time Is reflected li the T.wnty-i-ight- h Massachusetts In- LoomU Davenport. She was born In Lon- In both the Bible and his works.
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