Identifier: lifeartofedwinbo00matt (find matches)
Title: The life and art of Edwin Booth and his contemporaries
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929, comp Hutton, Laurence, 1843-1904
Subjects: Actors Actors
Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nyperiod within the past thirty years is extraordinary.In conversation with him one can hardly mention the 13° MR. AND MRS. FLORENCE. name of place or person that does not recall to Mr.Florence some interesting fact or circumstances re-lated thereto, which he proceeds to narrate delight-fully. And as a raconteur he has few superiors, hisstories usually being of a kind to illustrate point-edly some part of the general conversation, which hemanages shall flow on again without that dead calmwhich so commonly falls after a clever story. It is aprofit to pass an hour or two in his company wheneverthere is opportunity, as it is a delight to witness hisartistic work in an evening. The Chicago Inter-Ocean^ March 14, 1886. MR. HENRY IRVING. His life has made this iron age More grand and fair in story ;Illumed our Shaksperes sacred page With new and deathless glory *Refreshed tne love of noble fame In hearts all sadly faring,And lit anew the dying flame Of genius and of daring. William Winter.
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HENRY IRVING. MR. HENRY IRVING. John Henry Brodribb, or, as he is now known,Henry Irving, the most accomplished theatrical mana-ger and one of the most interesting and intellectualactors of the day, was born in England, at Keinton,near Glastonbury, Feb. 6, 1838. His father andmother were both descended from old Cornish fami-lies, held in high repute in the neighborhood of St.Ives, and it was in Cornwall that he passed the days ofhis early boyhood. At the age of eleven years hewas put to school in George Yard, Lombard Street,London, under the tuition of Dr. Pinches, and tradi-tion says that he soon won the admiration of hisschool-fellows by his skill in recitation. However thismay be, it is certain that he was stricken early withthe stage fever ; for although upon leaving school hewas placed in a merchants office, he devoted all hisspare time to the study of theatrical literature, savinghis scanty pocket money to buy the needful books, andto pay for lessons in elocution from an actor i

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