The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-08-13

loll. he never rdliieu, out Ola not die
until the following September. Edmund
Kean made his last appearance on the
stage on the 25th of March, 1888. as
Othello, his son Charles being the Iago.
He had scarcely the strength to dress
for the Moor, and he enjoined his son
to be ever near him In case of some mis-
chance. He got along as far as the cele-
brated farewell" speech, ending with
"Othello's occupations gone" and at
tempted to utter the next speech, but in
the attempt. with whispered. moan,
he fell on his sons shoulder, saying:
II am dying-speak to them for me-"
and the curtain descended on him for
ever. He fingered until the 18th day Of
May, his last words being those of
Octavian in George Colman the
younger's play of "The Mountaineers,"
Farewell, Flo-Floranthe."
John Pritt Harley was celebrated as
comedian Of extraordinary powers In
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London Princess Theatre. was in the
highest sense touching and dramatic.
They were then playing A Midsummer
Nights Dream, and Harley was Bot
tom, the weaver. Just as he had, in
the first scene of the fourth act, said to
Titania, "But I pray you, let none Of
your people stir me; have an exposi-
ton Of sleep come upon me" he passed
silently away into the sleep that knows
no waking.
John Palmer was capital actor, and
of great versatility. He was the orig
inal Joseph Surface In the School for
Scandal. He went to Liverpool In June,
1898, to fulfil an engagement; but his
heart was breaking, for death had taken
from his family circle his wife and the
most dearly loved Of his sons. Sorrow
for those who had departed, and anx-
iety for the remaining children who
depended upon him, affected him deeply,
and despite all his efforts, even when
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living for moment out of his memory.
At length the night came when he was
to repeat the character Of The Stranger
in Kotzebue's narrowing play, and then
there was no stimulation In his mournful
aspect. He had got through his part
to the middle Of the opening scene in
the fourth act. He had answered. II
love her STILL" to the query of Baron
Steinfort Whitfield respecting his wife,
and then to the question as to the chill
dren he gave the reply, II left them at
town hard by" but the words, falter-
ingly uttered, had scarcely passed his
! lips when he fell at Whitfields feet. The
| audience at first thought his fall was
nothing more than part of the business
Of the scene, but when they saw him
carried Off as q dead man, the whole
house was alarmed and horrified. The
actors, Hammerton, Callan, and Mara
bore Palmer from the stage into the
green room, but all the efforts Of ths
doctors hastily summoned, were power
less. Poor Palmer was dead. The man
ager, Aicken, went before the curtain
to announce the event, but he was 81
overcome with emotion that he coul(
not utter single word. and he ha(
to retire and leave Incledon to tell thu
sad story. The doctors decided tina
Palmer had actually died Of q broker
heart.
A. w. Peterson, an actor who ep
peared in 1743 at Drury Lane, died in
singularly unexpected manner. Durip
a performance Of Measure for Measur
in one Of the Norfolk towns he per
sonated the Duke, and in the first seen
of the third act he commenced tn
speech to Claudio:
BE absolute for death; either death Q
life
Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reaso
thus with life
He never finished the speech, bu
dropped down In an apoplectic At an
died Immediately. Feote, the inimits
BILE mimic, actor and dramatist, we
seized with paralysis upon the stag
He did, indeed, recover sufficiently
linger a few months, but the deaf
stroke had fallen upon him during h
acting.
Harry J. Montague was stricken viii
his fatal illness while playing at Il
California Theatre, San Francisco, Il
part of Lord Chiffon in False Sham
He was on a starring tour at the tin
of his death, in August, 1878. and oil
: night felt himself obliged to beg Il
audience, in the middle of the first &C
to be indulgent toward him, as he fe
extremely i'll. The curtain was at on
!, lowered. He maintained his place u
til 1t hid him from public view. whe
almost Immediately after its descer
he was attacked with violent hemo
rhage of the lungs, bleeding profusel
He was taken to his dressing room al
laid on lounge. Several physical
were called behind the scenes to e.
anime him, and an hour later he W
carefully conveyed to the Palace Hot
which he never quilted alive. He di
: the next day.
Baddely died when dressed for Mos
in THE School for Scandal, of which IA
he was the originator. Harry Murdo