The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-07-04


create the leading part in the great spsctsc-
ulAr and romantic melodrsms, "Storm Bes-
ten" which will be produced in the Union
Square Theater IN November next when the
company returns from its California and
western tour. The management are to be
congratulated upon securing Rankin, ss he
in turn is to be felicitsted upon making his
Remittance here IN q part go STURDY, so virile.
go romantic and so thoroughly adapted to
his peculiar and interesting school.
Do you pay much attention to coinciden-
ces7 had barely exchanged sslutstions with
Rankin and passed out upon Broadway
through the Hoffman door place Of exit, when
/ ran against an old gentleman, who, in re-
turn for my somewhat unceremonious bump
against him, facetiously proposed to punch
me in the head. looked at him. He was
quite six feet high, without
WRINKLE IN HIS FACE,
as straight as sn Indian, slender and "gen-
teel" in figure, we'll dressed and with face
full of life. It was Charles K. Thorne, the
father of Rsnkins predecessor, Charles r.
Thorne, Jr., who was the leading man in the
Union Square Theatre from the day of its
opening till the illfated hour when, few
months since, tempted by ambition and
somewhat by money, he left the scene OF his
manifold triumphs and foolishly esssyed q
work for which he was in no sense fitted, and
at time, too, when nature rebelled against
effort Of every kind and his friends too plain
ly saw the zeal of death upon his face. Old
Mr.. Thorne is the hero of history personal
and professional which hes few parallels.
De has been upon the stage, man and boy,
more than go years. In Thorough and tumble
of his early DAYS he had many hard knocks,
but gave as good IS be received. AS young
man he was marked success, and the record
is filed with the story OF his triumph in the
Bowery, IN San Francisco, in China and
Australia. As leading man of the principal
theatres here, years before the present gen.
Grafton were dreamed of, he supported the
great names of the past. His experiences on
the road run the entire gamut OF fun and
frolic, of trouble and disaster, of dissppoint-
ment and defeat, of wonderful success and
great pecunisry return. He was left for
dead once in Panama, was kept captive for
three weeks by South Americans, was
FETED on A STAGE
covered with Jumps of gold in Msrysville in
the days Of 49, begged his way through the
almost impossible Businesses of Australia
rode in triumph on the back of an elephant
fed with nothing but the shirt upon hi
back from q gang of miscresnts in Sydney
fought the fight of true American against
the prejudice of English colonists, fathered
family noted as was their mother fol
talent, versatility and marked physical
beauty, and in his old age walks the street:
of the city of his birth with enough money
in his pocket to pay his way to the gate Of
death, and to defrsy the expenses of hi:
funeral after he has passed it unnoticed and
unreccgnized by the million known to and
loved by the few. "Poor Charley, peol
Charley" ssid he, show miss him." and sc
he must; for. although Chsrley's house VIZ!
not a home for his father, nor, indeed wei
come place to any of his kith and kin, wher
Charley and the old man met, and, especial
ly, if Edwin was of the party, they were
like boys upon q froiic, young men upon {
spree; it was give and take among them, snC
many q jolly masquerade they had together
The old man is nothing but boy, anyhow
q jolly, rollicking. reckless boy, as ready to
day as he was 90 years ago for lark;
msn among men, suiting his temper, hi
conversation and his manner to the com
psnv in which he is.