The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-31
s.ars On and 0G the Stage.

American type. While she has not i'm
 proved to the extent that was expected,
 the confidence of the public that they arc gazing on a woman whose name Is purs enough to interpret "Evadne,S Juliet. ?
 and such parts, gives her a social and moral support which much greater talent, as in the case of Adelaide Nelson, would not procure. think that Nelson is re-
 gzrded as the moss remarkable union oi talent and beauty that has been seen in this generation on the stage
 saw, last summer, Ellen TerTy, who
 supports Irving in his Shakspearean re- productions, and, while she has energy
 and acts with spirit up to her master, she does not possess the dehcacy of form and shade, the extreme sweetness and the pa- thos and piquancy together that Nelson
 had When Nelson came to this country society took hold of her. and in Brook
 lyn, which is the New kngland side oi New York, she was character equal to
 her talent and appearance Last summer l crossed the ocean on the same ship with Losfz. She drew in the confidence of all the passengers as woman morally deserving of her wealth and popularity. Maggie Mitchell having married. and
 being a mother and keeping her own
 home ai Long Branch, IS popular with
 her profession, and has the regard of vir- tuous men and women. Fannie kemble, coming from a great dramatic family
 whose founder took rank with kean, Mac ready and GaSrick, IS perhaps. the great est woman in a union of mind and beauty the English race has presented on the stage. Her poems. chiefly on American subjects rank up 10 those of Mrs. Norton and Mrs. Hemans- and her remarkable independence. which Tebelled even
 against the martial yoke to the extent o. criticising her husbands slave property and estates, gave her something of the character of Madame De Stael. She suf-
 fered usual fate with beautiful women
 on the stage whose social rank IS equal
 10 their talent that of marrying a merely rich man. by whom she bore two children, and who was inguifed in the vicissitndes wife, was warm advocate of the union cause.
 Among men on the stage al present john Gilbert IS very highly considered so-
 cially, and has nearly as great hold on the local public here as his namesakc
 Sir John Gilber,, the designer and artist,
 has in London. Edwin Booth was. ten
 or fifteen years ago, a great favorite. not only in New York. but in several other prominent cities. like Boston and Chica- gn.I :dnuht if his rank in this country is quite as high as it was, though he still
 leads all our native tragedians.
 The connection of his brother, Wilkes i Booth. with the bloody events of the var did Edwin Booth no injury, but rather in- tellectually benefited him, as he had been during the war a firm union man and suffered
 exceedingly on the score of his brothers
 act. A prominent manager once told
 me that whenever the Booth episode was revived in the newspapers on account oi , some new coincidence or event bringing ], i, forth, Edwin Booth was taken with fii of despondenoy which almost prevented him from playing.
 i John Mccullough also has strong fol-
 lowing throughout the United States. As
 business man, he has tact and industry.
 His face is fine one, and his physique has been maintained in spite of his ardu- ous labors, while that of booth has run
 down somewhat through dyspepsia and
 other troubles Mccullough is called by
 many the embodiment of the old heroic
 acting which he derived from his master,
 Forrest, many of whose plays he alone portrays. There is an clement among
 the public which criticises his understand
 ing and absorption, particularly of his Shakespcarean parts. and some say that cfsx~U thn ~.,Ar r1~
 he IS well established, at least in this l country, as bright, picturesque repre- sentor of what he undertakes to do.
 Mir. Barrett also has following. and l
 sometimes 6nd theatre-goer who pre-
 fers him to both Booth and Mccullough.
 When Mccullough vas quite a boy he
 married in Philadelphia. At that time he was an apprentice to a ehair-makeg. His remarkable career pushed his domes- tic life into the background, but he has
 son who must be now nearly grown. and whom he has taken care of very
 faithfGlly. He and Barrett are both,
 think. 1rsh boys Booth belongs to the
 third generation of AmeTicans in family. When his 6fher had become estahlished
 in this country he sent to England for his
 father, Richard Booth, who lived on his farm near Bel Air, Maryland, and is
 buried, think, with the rest of the fami- ! ly in Baltimore.
 In some respecas the head of the Amer
 ican stage just now Is Lester Wallack The Jewish element is in this family as in
 the Booths, though there is but . touch of 1t. think in the Booths, wtile Wal
 lack is considered Jewish name. va
 once t2lkingto to Dug Wallack, the found
 CT ofthe Washington .SAsy and brothez
 of the deceased mayor of WashinRecn City, Richard WallAch, and inadvertently
 l asked hin vhae race he came ol, sup. posing it nigh, be iron Germany or Wal
 lacAia- He erepiea very fankay: ..J6w,
 sir. My fah1 was knoun in BoGspn s1
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 Wannck canesp this cuantsy fiun Err.
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 usHan ssnamenS tsth ea the snGs sn1
 in shs mz<snanS snd Ae luk 6D - at hae she good-w0 of dis thsane, al
 psehahly uIsasy bssideA Lassar Wal.
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 moving viah the flzAiunnhae anis e sAi t0wu, an4 h n0w pooDom0 one of =