Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-24

it is reported, over SIT 200 for each per-
formance, including the special matinee
on Thanksgiving day. So many requests
| have been made for "Julius C9sar'
| that Messrs. Booth and Barrett have de-
cided to revive that play.
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The New York papers which started
the report that all agree in denying Booth
and Barrett are to separate, saying that
| they will continue together next season
at least and probably longer. Again,
Barrett is quoted as saying: eve think
of adding several pieces, such as 'Rich-
| elieu, TO the repertoire next season. Of
| course, in such plays there is but one
great figure, and in them Mr.. Booth will
be seen without me. We shall appear to-
gether during the first part of the season
and while Mr.. Booth is acting alone 1
shall manage the affairs of the organiza-
ton. Toward the close of the season
Mr.. Booth and 1 will again appear to-
gether. -
Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett
can be seen walking arm i'll arm down
Broadway every night after the perform
ance. 1t is their regular practice before
retiring. Each wears, a high, shiny silk
hat and long ulster of soft, dark cloth
reaching to his heels. They are gen.
orally in good spirits, and laugh and
chat pleasantly about things outside of
their profession and call each other Ed
win and Larry. They are no longer stern
and dignified tragedians then. They are
genial and loveable men, overlooking
with good humor and kindness.
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This chaste tribute to high art ap-
peared as an editorial in the New York
Herald: "'YOu say the people don t care
for the legitime drama any more, and
are pleased with the rattle, tickled with
the straw of burlesque and farce, tin
thunder, transformation scenes, and
other bewilderments. Well, Mr.. Booth
and Mr.. Barrett have had miraculous
houses, and have continued TO
draw as steadily as a six
horse team. They are equally good in
single or double harness, and whether it
is Booth or Barrett singly, or both Of
them together they are sure of Il large au-
dience.
''Miss Mary Anderson, too, in win
ter's Tale is delighting New Workers.
They go once, then a second time, and
then all the time. There is no claptrap
about the play; it is all full of honest
work. OF course we like to laugh, and
there is something about the minstrels
and q travesty and an extravaganza
which helps to drive dull care away. We
split our heads against hard, 1Inty bust
ness all day and it does us good to split
our sides with jollity at night. But when
you say that strong dramatic art has had
its day-why, you are mistakin, that's
all -
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4 smooth faced, clerical-lo looking man
appeared before the mOurners and friends
that were gathered about the open grave
of Alice Hastings at the odd Fellows
cemetery in Philadelphia the other day.
He read the Episcopal burial service i'm
pressively, and at its close delivered
touching address that vibrated with ten
der feeling.
"'Who is the clergyman? many
asked.
They were surprised to learn that it
WASH i a clergyman at all, but an actor
Frederick Warde-who, as friend of
the dead woman, performed these last
offices - New York Mirror.
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Maurice Barrymore, whose recent Gre
alton, Captain Swift, - is being much
talked about, is a man of extraordinary
characteristics. He is as well, if not
better, known in London than he is in
America, and he is more popular in Tex
rs than he is in Boston. For long time
he was champion middle-weight boxer of
Great Britain among the ameteurs. The
series of scraps that he has engaged in in
America have enhanced his notoriety.
He is man of superb physique, and is
probably more admired by the men than
the women-particularly by men who
have some knowledge OF athletics. Bar
rymore has not the dress-coat symmetry
of a Kelley, Bellew, or Charles Coghlan,
but he has u breadth of shoulders, Il
thickness of arm and leg and springi-
ness of carriage that go far toward indi-
eating that he has the strength that most
men long for. Despite his numerous
rows, he is not a man of surly or belliger-
ent disposition. Perhaps his extraordi-
nary physical development explains the
fearlessness with which he accepts any
thing in the nature of a row that comes
along - New York Sun.