Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-03-01
DEATH or STEELE MAckAYE.
The Famous DramAtist Passes Away. Il
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TIMPAs, Col, Feb. 27.-Steele Mack
aye died here Sunday morning at 7:45
o'clock from complete exhaustion His
wife, known on the stage as Helen
Mari, DR.. a. N. Parker, of Chicago, and
q professional nurse were with him.
He. died in private car on
the Sante Fe road, in which he was
being conveyed to Los Angeles, Cal,
where it was believed his health, could
he have lived to reach there, would
have been benefited. Owing to his
weak, wasted condition, however, the
exertions and excitement Of the
trip were more than he was
able to stand. The body was
taken from here to La Junta, where
it was embalmed and prepared for
burial. DIR. Parker and the widow
have started east with it and arrive in
Chicago Wednesday morning. DR..
Parker and DR.. Finney. the Santa Fe
surgeon at La Junta, held an autopsy
and found the cause of death to be a
cancer in the stomach.
Mr.. Mackaye was born in Buffalo, N Y, in
1896 His oratorical and literary inclinatio
were Of early development. After course at
Yale university he was sent to Paris, with
the assistance OF friends, and for seven
or eight years he studied under
Delsarte Returning to New York, he was
taken IN hand by Lester Wallack. Larry
jerome and other notables He became the lion
OF the clubs and the pet Of bohemia Several
lectures on oratory and the drama which
he delivered in New York and Boston at.
tracted great attention and much favorable
comment Then he went to London where, in
collaboration with tom" Taylor, he produced
series of successful plays, It was during this
time that "Won at Last" was brought out by
Mr.. Mackaye.
After several years he returned t New
York and wrote Hazel Kirke,'' viii CHI made
his name famous. Other plays, such as "a
Noble Rogue, Col Tom and Paul kauyar,
followed, in each OF which startling stage con-
trlvances were introduced by the author
Subjoined is q list OF the plays, in addition to
those already mentioned, written by Mr.
Mackaye alone or in collaboration, giving the
date OF the production OF each: Marriage
1872: Rose Michel" 1875: "Queen and
Woman" 1876 Through the Dark" 1873
"a Fools Errand," 1881; "Dakolar," 1884;
Of Civilization 1885 "Rinzi," reconstructed
and rewritten for Lawrence Barrett In 1885;
anarchy" 1887. produced again in the same
year under the title Of Paul Kauvar; !" An
Arrant Knave," 1889; Money Mad" 1890
Mr.. Mackaye's latest project, the Specta.
torium, was the most stupendous failure Of his
career. 1t was designed to be great attrac.
ton conducted supplementary to the worlds
fair, In which his recent invention for graduate
Ing electric light so as to counterfeit natural
light we're to be utilized In scenic history OF
Columbus and the discovery oil America
Prominent capitalists furnished the money,
but the undertaking was projected upon too
large scale and 1t failed last June losing Its
hackers sum estimated at 100000 The pile
OF ruins at the north end OF jackson park re-
mains q monument to Mr.. Mackaye's imprac.
ticability. Only few weeks ago the Specta.
torium. modelled Oh much smaller SCALE was
opened on Michigan avenue, Chicago, where It
Is now running.l