Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-08
SOME FORGOTTEN FAvORITES.
Some of the Theatrical Celebrities
Of Past Times,
RECALLED BY OLD PHOTOGRAPHS.
Gifted Men ana Bcautimi women VINO
Charmed the Audiences OF thirty
Years AGO kindly shadows OF
the stage.

by the pictures | saw there are given here
with while the recollections they evoked
would M columns.
Here is quaint old photograph OF Edwin
Booth and his daughter taken In 1868, when
tho e rcat actor was In the first flush OF his
spepdid fame. lie Is gone now, while hls
daughter, now grown TO beautiful wcmanhood
has been a happy vito and mother for several
years past
And pretty Agnes Ethol---who Noes not re-
member her as tho sweetest AZ most WIN
some OF Frou-Frous. and thg bright par
tcular star in Mr.. Days spie id company.
But that was moro than tweNy years ago.
She married while her FORTUNE were still in
tho ascendant and has owe since boon a
stranger to the stage. lone rke is another
name that Is almosthnknow o the theatre
gocrs Of tho present time. bat nevertheless
she was the idol OF the gllded youth Of tho
early sixties Gifted and beautiful tho
daughter Of one Of the greatest actors the
American stage has known, her future seemed
assured, whom one day she suddenly disap-
pcared and the places TINT had known her
knew nor no moro. Later IL came out that
handsome, stalwart EnRllshman had won her
heart. and that she had gone with him TO
make home on the other side Of tho seas,
She IA now an honored and happy Wits and
mother IN England. and those who know her
sqy she has mover had cd le to regret the
sudden Impulse thnt led her to abandon tho
footlght's glare and glitter.
! Kate Bateman lie another American actress
who has lived 40 long in England that she Is
almost forgotten IN tho land Of her birth.
She and her sister were famous and popular
ns Infant prodgios forty years ago, and later
she made namo for herself az a capable,
palnstaking and conscientious actress,
| especially impressive Ia tragic and melo-
| dramatic roles. Her Leah ia stu romem-
bercd as a powerful and moving personation.
She married in England and has since resided
there, For some years sho successfully
managed a leading London theatre, but OF
late years has been socn on tho stage only at
rare and infroduent intervals.
picture OF Clara Morris shows her o.
she looked when she first startled tho town
as a member Of Days company moro than
twenty years ngo. She has grown old since
then and her figure has lost much OF itn girl.
ish slendefnoss, but her moving pathos nor
tragic Intensity and her power TO sway an
audience at Will, stlll remain picture
VI WAAAN hhNfulNIN SHOWS illAt KlItNu ma
hhfd working actress ms she looked twenty
years ago she, too, has grown old In tito
yeara that have interyened, but she has gain
ed all tho time In breadth, In scope and IN
ready command OF her art. Poor Sarah JOw-
ettl Who does not recall tho days when her
beauty, talent and earnest endeavor caph-
waited the town. She has boen for several
years helpless invalid, and will probably
never net again.
What host Of rocollectiona arc evoked by
The name Of Pauline Markham saw her
the other night as graceful aud ahapely and
almost a. beautiful as OF yore, but The days
arc gone whom the youth Of the period went
wild over her, and poor old Richard Grant
Whito, now dead and almost forgotten was
hopoessly In love with her In these timea
Tear hpr lines do not always fall in pleasant
plaooa, but IN the pnlmy DAYS OF tho English
blondes, Markham was great inyorite and
divided popular favor with Lydia Thompson,
the loader Of tho troupe. Audiences rayod
over her, the newspapers praised her a host
OF admirers loaded her with beautiful and
costly presents. Her good fortune seemed
song that would never ond, But ono day the
bubble burst The public FANCY changed and
the Blondes Wero no longer popular Bhe
had spent her money with lavish hand and
~ recent years she has often found herself In
bitter need both Of money and employment
There Is no more pathetic figure than de.
uironcd stage queen, and Pauline Markham
Is striking proof Of this assertion,
Those already nnmed nre only few OF the
ghosts Of the past that my visit TO the little
picture shop called up Here Is picture OF
Mrs. d. L, Bowera, ono Of tho most pleasing
and finished actresses the American stage has
ever known, taken before she had begun TO
grow old another Of James u. Murdoch the
best Mercutio and Denyolio OF his time, ant
Tor many years the neator If oui
shgei another Of John wilkes Booth.
handsome "a Apollo, showing him AZ
lie appeared less than week before tho as
sassination Of Lincoln n quaint old likeness
OF Agnes Booth, taken when sh0 was the wid-
ow q Harry Perry, and when. Us rumor has
H. she had very warm place IN her
heart Tor dashing Frank Mayo, thsn leading
man Of tho California theatre IN San Pian-
cisco; a photograph OF Maggie Mitchell,
when she WAS still the devoted wife OF Henry
Paddock, and before her ago had become a
stock ioke with newspaper funny men; Dion
Douclcault thirty years ago, when his star
was at ts zcnith and his cup was nled to the
nfim with The good things Of this world and
ll.aiAIred lima di Murska, whose superb
voice charmed tho people OF two worlds but
WHO finally died 10 the dlrost poverty, heart
broken and forgotten.
Here, too arc photographs Of lester Wall
AJAX 10 n dozen different characters; that
Lester Wnaok who was the hnndsonest act
~ aud the finest Hight comedian OF his time.
Tor a quarter " d century the metropoila'
greatest tANorte as player and manager, but
N Greenwood, playing IA death role fnr
moro moving and pathetic than any he ever
played during life aud Of Harry Montague,
handsome, gifted and versatile, whom he
men admired and newcomer ndored, but who
saAout down too soon for the full rlpcnlng
u his fnme, and who now sleeps neGr hts old
riend and manager, Wnllack Pictures also
u John bronghnm, Charles Waicot and VIII
lam Rulns Blake. all famous and gifted COM
'dians, tho first generously endowed both as
ictor and playwright, the second the best
Bob Acres Of his time. and thu lest-nnmed,
over OF vino, women and the midnight
hines, unsurpassed AZ Jesse Rural.
Photographs, too Of Barney Williams and
lis wife, the Irish boy and the Yankee gifl
infnty NaA never an actor but the people
ikcd him, and whom he died ne had become
me Of the richest players Of his time. His
wife, stu handsome woman. but with hair
. white as snow, ~ 0fton scen OF an nfier-
odn on broadway. William Il. Burton, great
5 Toodles aud greater Atill as Paul pry;
aura keone line actress and gifted woman.
lho ouilised her popularity and died ne.
lectcd and forgotten; Harry and Tom
'noide. the ideal Dromios VI their time,
ohm 4 Ovens inlmitahle a. Wellington de
loots and Scion Single. who made fortune
y the stage and lost II IN speculation; Ada
lnre. womah OF wit, talent and sur
assing beauty, queen Of the Bohemian
ntcrlo that used TO uoot at pAns. her
rllllnnt and haulnaa urofofcDa4 Iola Alontas