Identifier: lifeartofrichard01wint (find matches)
Title: Life and art of Richard Mansfield : with selections from his letters
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Winter, William, 1836-1917
Subjects: Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907
Publisher: New York : Moffat, Yard and company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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pro-ficient of the actors of that period, whom it was aprivilege to see and whom it is a pleasure to remem-ber. With the Royalty Theatre Mansfield con-tinued to be associated until April, 1882, when hewent to the Comedy Theatre, to play a minor partin M. Audrans bright opera of The Mascotte,with which that house had been opened, on October15, 1881. Adverting to Mr. Farnie and Mr. Hen-derson, with whom he had been associated at theGlobe and at the Royalty, Mansfield, long after-ward, talking with me, expressed strong aversion,and it is not improbable that those persons con-siderably contributed to the discomfort of his pro-fessional experience when he was striving to makehis way in London at that time. In the summer of1882, acting on the advice of his staunch friend,Eben D. Jordan, he left London and estab-lished his residence in New York. On September27, that year, he appeared at the Standard Theatre(afterward the Manhattan, demolished in 1909)as Dromez, in Les Manteaux Noirs, and on
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*ftl».* sEfessisgk c^>> *tr ^Kte ^ErS % X \* ^- \I^W MANSFIELD AS SIR JOSEPH PORTER V,^ From a Pen and Ink Sketch by Himself NEW YORK AT LAST 49 October 28, on the same stage, he appeared as NickVedder and as Jan Vedder, in a musical version ofthe old play of Rip Van Winkle. Later he wasseen, in those characters, in Philadelphia. OnDecember 18 he acted in Baltimore, appearing asthe Lord Chancellor, in the opera of lolanthe.On December 20 he repaired to New York andjoined the stock company of the Union SquareTheatre, where, as already mentioned, he suddenlyflashed upon public attention as an actor of excep-tional power, in the part of Chevrial. From thattime until nearly the end of his life he remained inthe almost continuous practice of his profession. III. 1883 TO 1888. MANSFIELDS success as Chevrial was decisive, yetit did not promote his rapid advancement. AParisian Romance held the stage of the UnionSquare Theatre till April 7, 1883, when it was takenon a tour of th

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