Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-09-29

company. In the late forties he played
In Liverpool and Birmingham with
Macready, vanderhoff. Charles kesn'
Nine. Vestris, and Charlotte cushrnan.
MACREADYS oDDITY.
OF Macready. Mr.. Couldock says:
He used to do q most remarkable
thing In Macbeth He would fight with
q different sort OF sword In the duel scene
than that which he carried during the
play He insisted upon swords with no
guards. which left the wrists absolutely
unprotected. He used to handle his
sword like fiend. He gave me num-
Der Of scratches One night hit him on
the wrist saw no blood, so thought
l must have struck him with the side OK
the sword. and the wound was OF no
account. As was leaving the theatre l
saw that there was a light In his dress
ing-room. One OF the attaches said that
ne had sent In a hurry for hot water.
I went 10 him at once. The wound was
bleeding copiousiy. l expressed my sin
cere regrets. sir. Couldock.' he said,
grandi.oquently, II you ever get cut,
always battle the wounded portion in hot
water. 1t is exceedingly eficacious.'
Afterwards he was more than ever in
favor OF Macbeth and Macduf fighting
with swords without guards"
Macready wanted Couldock to go to
London and act with him at the Prin-
cesses', but Charlotte Cushman made him
an offer TO accompany her 10 America,
which he accepted. This was In lA9, and
for more than forty years he was figure
in American theatricals. Now he seldom
goes to the theatre. He lives with his
children and grandchildren. and every
fair afternoon goes to the Players Club
"A 20 old tim
with any congenial spirit.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Thomas Howe was born March 81, 1872,
half hour before midnight. lie says
that II he had delayed his first appear
ance for half an hour he would have
been an April fool all OF his life. lie also
says that II 1t were not for the Scotch
and water he would not be here to-day
AS IL is. he looks as If he would live a
score OF years more. He IS agile and
energetic and gay. Life IS as pleasant
10 him as TO the youth OF 20.
lie was a Quaker by birth and raising
and his father and mother strenuously
opposed his desire TO become an actor
But he had seen Edmund Kean play
Richard III. and his mind was made up
The Quakers disowned him. but that did
not phase him. lie managed to obtain
tried 10 discourage him. Later he played
in an amateur production. and doing fair
ly well was engaged at the Victoria The
atre. In his ffty-six years OF stage life
he has been under only seven managers
He was in the original cast OF the Lady
OF Lyons" and in "Richelieu." when they
were brought out In England.
A THIRD OLD-TIMER.
Another old-timer Is w. ]. lie Moyne.
who IS still troddlng the boards as ener-
getically as he did forty years ago. He
has been player for nearly forty-four
years. and although 81 years OF age,
doesn't look 80.
He does not consider himself an cd
timer, and rarely talks I'm reminiscent
vein. He prefers 10 converse on to-day.
But when he does speak Of the long
ago. II is to applaud the old resident
stock company regime. In those days
elder Booth Forrest, Fechter. the elder
Wallack, George Vandenhoff, and a host
OF other celebrities toured the country
without taking with them large com
pany costumes, and scenery. They walk
cd into a theatre knowing that the mana
ger had everything ready for them, a
well-drliel company, schOoled assistants
20 handle the costumes and scenery, and
every needed convenience at immediate
| command.
To tell OF the others or of the women
| OF the stage Of a generation or tw
| would take too much space. The .
scores OF them, celebrities in tic q
and now almost forgotten. and 30
them fighting with the feeble desperation
| OF cd age that terrible mOnster-POverty
GRANTLAND-GRIEVE.