Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-07


It seemed quite probable that he would
carry off the palm of manly pulchritude
from all the metropolitan actors who stirred
the hearts of the fair sex.
All over the country women have admir-
ed and envied his comeliness. This is not
mere empty fattery of the gentleman. The
remarks are called out by the compliments
that the women patrons of the Empire pay
him. 1t is history. too, for Clio has as
much to do with recording the conquests of
handsome men of the stage, though in
MINOR way, of course, as she has to do with
using up her styles and tablets in the in
terest of statesmen, warriors and such. Mr..
Miller's features are delicate but clear and
perfect. His earnest eye and admirable fig
ure that always wears genteel grace
make him most interesting to look upon.
When" an enthusiastic chronicler wrote,
las the Earl of Leicester he wore lovely
white silk tights, he was indeed a thing of
beauty. And to think he has gone back to
long trousers
Bat Mr.. Miller will not like all this. He
prefers to have his acting and not his per-
sonal appearance discussed in print. He is
not one of the men who tell newspaper
writers of the baskets of mash" letters
they receive and consign to the flames every
day. His conquests are not i'll that line, nor
does he desire them to be. Mr. Miller is
very nice, agreeable, soft voiced and gentle
hammered man, who off the stage presents
none of the appearance of the histrion. He
does not parade Broadway or pose in the
cafes and at Long Branch, where he spent
last summer, he was the quietest and least
obtrusive of the guests. He has very
pretty home in this city, where he spends
most of his time with his wife, formerly
Bijou Heron, and boy as handsome and
interesting rs mis- father.
Ever since Henry Miller appeared in New
Yorl. at Days theater in 1882 as Count de
Latour in Sardou's "Odette," and later the
same year as the Doctor in The Passing
Regiment the metropolis has known him
as IA favorite and successful actor He has
won his way by pure merit as well as agree
able personality. His gentlemaDlness and
suave art, the charming lnodulations of his
voice, which is certainly as soft and music
al yet as wide ranged as any on the stage
and his magnetic manner made him nCte-
worthy figure in every production in which
he had part. He was liked from the first.
His triumphs came quickly, and that he
has 'played mary parts i'll his time" and
thus manifested the versatility of his his
trionsm is evident from the list of the prin-
cipal characters alone in which he has been
seen in this city.
In 1923 at the Madison Square theater
he appeared as Herbert in Young Mrs.
Winthrop At the same theater in 1885
he had the leading role in "Anselma." The
following year at the Star theater he played
Sir Burleigh Woodstock in Boucicault's
The Jilt." In 1887 at the Star he had the
heroic soldier role of Colonel Prescott in
Held by the Enemy" He was at the uy-
ceum theater for two seasons, beginning
with 1887, during which time he was seen as
Robert Grey in The Wife," Clement Hale
in Sweet Lavender" and Rodolph in 1.-THE
Marquise." In 1889 he was engaged by
Charles Frohman to create the role of Colo
mel kerchival West in Shenandoah.
The following season, still under Charles
Frohman's management, as he has been al
most without interruption from Septem
Der, 1889, he created Alfred Hastings in
''All the Comforts of Home In 1891 he
had the leading role in ''Betrothed'' at the
Garden theater and the title role in THE
Merchant at the Madison Square Last
season he achieved notable success as
Frederic lie Maitre and Oscar O'Flaherty
Wilde in The Poet and Puppets" This
SEASON. di Tue Empire tDedteT he mas UOne
the best work of his brilliant career His
Mr.. Owen in Liberty Halr' was clean
cut representation of a gentlemanly lover
of the Lord Burleigh type. His Tom
Morris in The Councillors Wife, was an
excellent, manly type of the hard pressed
modern student who has heart and an APP
petite, but has honor that holds both in
check. His Mr.. Brabazon i'm the present
tremendous Empire theater success, Sow
Ing the Wind" in which, though still an
acknowledged leading Juvenile man and
simulator of young romantic heroes, he ap-
pears in the role of a equity but buoyant
hearted and handsome featured gentleman
of Sc, is a masterpiece of acting and has
been enthusiastically declared such by crit
les and public alike.
1t was a stroke of genius on Manager
Charles Frohman's part to select a hand
some young fellow like Henry Miller to
play old Brabazon. He knew why he did
it. He knew that man of Sc possesses no
particular glamour for the women, who aft
er all are the mainstays of the theater, but
put the harness of age on fascinating ma
turity-pu. 4 gray wig on the head that
has so long been known to wear Hyperion's
curls-and the women will all throng to see
the .netamorphosis. Lucy LAWN.
New York