Identifier: intmtrcllc00jeff (find matches)
Title: Intimate recollections of Joseph Jefferson
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Jefferson, Eugâenie Paul
Subjects: Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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IONS OF Gretchen did not die, as in the old version, andthe dogs name was changed from Spider toSchneider, and he was given a more prominentplace. Father seemed to melt right into the charac-ter, and before the play was over people wereasking: * Who is this man? Where did he comefrom? After that first performance in London itwas Joe Jeffersons Rip Van Winkle—notBoucicaults. After witnessing Mr. Jeffersons work inthe play, several nights after its first perform-ance (which the author could not be persuadedto attend) he said to the actor: Joe, I think you are shooting over theirheads. 11 am not even shooting at their heads, wasthe reply. 11 am aiming at their hearts. The play had a long and successful run inLondon and various cities on the other side, andwhen we returned to America it created afurore. It has been presented more than ten thou-sand times. The career of Charles B. Jefferson as an ex-pert and enterprising manager was, with oneexception, most successful. He established the
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JOSEPH JEFFERSON AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE, LONDON, IN 1865IN THE ORIGINAL BOUCICAULT DRAMATIZATION OF RIP VAN WINKLE JOSEPH JEFFERSON 251 firm of Jefferson, Klaw & Erlanger, but sev-ered his connection with the firm that he mightgive his full time and attention to his father,but not before he had brought into popularitymany spectacular features of the stage, amongthem being the tank drama, with its hugetank of real water as used in The Dark Secretand The Shadows of a Great City, the latterplay being his fathers own plot and construc-tion, though the actual work was done by Mr.Lemuel Shewell. It was characteristic of Charles Jefferson todo things on a large scale. In his family hewent by the name of Colonel Sellers. He con-ceived the idea of having the real thing inhis production of The Country Circus—thesawdust ring, horses, acrobats, etc. Before theplay was produced, his father, who had attendedthe dress rehearsal, wrote him the followingletter: The Continental, Philadelphia,Mond

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