Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-30

20. eS, MdUlo, WIS HIS ehSeE re-
ply. as he looked at her rosy lips, @you
can if you you will, lend me 5 cents
to pay my car fare home"
A wELL-KNowN English actress is an.
CRY because manufacturer of false
teeth has placarded his town with pic
lures representing her before and
after" taking set OF his famous teeth.
The @before" portrait is one which
makes her angry.
N. @. GOODWIN recently purchased
an opal ring for $3.50. On going home
he found his wife i'll. He thereupon
became an immediate convert to the
suspicion of the unluckiness of opals,
and went out and gave the ring to the
first friend he met.
| CHARLES DU VAL, well-known mon
ologue entertainer, died of sunstroke re-
Gently on steamer in the Red Sea. He
had been great traveller, and once gave
Performance before the eighty wives Of
the nizam of Hyderabad. The ladies,
of course, were invisible.
CATHERINE SINCLAIR, widow of the
tragedian Edwin Forrest, is 70 years
old and resident of New York. A
reporter who recently saw her at her
home in West Eighty fourth street de-
scribes her as in possession of all her
faculties and surrounded by friends and
the children of friends who anticipate
and crafty every wish OF hers
Tom MATHEWS recently died in En-
gland at the age of "a years. He was
known to and much admired by the last
generation of play-goers as the best
clown since Joe Grimaldi, whose pupil
he was and the editing of whose auto
biography was the first literary "job"
Charles Dickens undertook, next to the
Sketches by Boz. Mathews retired
more than twenty years ago. In his
later life he was partially paralyzed,
but he always maintained his cheerful
spirit. He passed his old age at Brigh-
| ton.
THE entertainment recently given at
Grosvenor house, London, for the ben
eft of starving dogs was a notable one
in many respects. The audience was
the cream of London fashion and the
program was delightful. Ellen Terry
recited Christina Rosetti's "In the
Round Tower at Jhausi," pathetic tale
of the awful Indian mutiny; Mrs.
George Giddons created great merri-
ment by comic serenade. and George
Grossmith gave some of his choicest i'm
itations. Many other prominent per-
formers lent their services.
A WRITER in the st. James Gagatte
tells some plain truths about the aver
age actor, concluding as follows: "The
actor in a good social position might
have many accomplishments. The mar
vel is that he has so few. He may ride,
box, or fence in the morning, lounge in
the afternoon, and work all the evening
but all this is done, and less mechani-
cally done, by men whose faculties are
not constantly stimulated by the genius
of the drama. Without being an Adj
mirable Crichton, the actor might do
something better than circulate good
story or initiate comrade. He might
acquire little more general informa-
ton than can be picked out of theatre
| Ia inh
that the world is not bounded on the
north by the footlights, on the south by
the box office, and on the east and west
by press opinions, of his performances. +"
The first mention of Shakespeare by
name after his arrival in London from
his home at Stratford, occurs in the ac-
counts of the IRE asurer of the Cham
Der, from which we learn that he acted
twice with Burbage, as member of the
Lord Chamberlain's company before
Queen Elizabeth at the Christmas
period of 1893. His only son, Hamnet,
died in 1896, and in 1897 he bought for
ESQ New Place, good dwelling in his
native and ever lovely Stratford. Eliz-
abeth died in 1903. In May of that
year her successor, James l., arrived at
London, and in o few days after that
event the new king issued his warrant
licensing the theatrical company to
which Shakespeare belonged. His name
appears second in the list of players.
In the same year Shakespeare acted in
Ben Jonson's "Sejanus." There is no
record that he ever appeared on the
stage after that; nor is it certain when
he returned to Stratford. The biogra-
pliers fix it between the years 1910 and
1912. He died April %, 1916, aged 50
years.
Dion BoUcIcAULT thus recalls the
first night of the comedy London As
surance:" Wellington never awaited
the arrival of the Prussians at Waterloo
with the pale anxiety that the appear
ance of Lady Gay Spanker and Dolly
in the third act was waited for by the
young dramatist. Nisbitt came, she
spoke, and conquered. She outranke d
herself The hunting speech carrie d
the house by storm. Jerrold. Lemon
and Beckett rose in their seats and
cheered. The pit seemed to boil over.
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