The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-18

In IT'S an actress Mrs.. Jefferson. book
ing Oh at rehearsal, fell into the arms
o. the same Moody. and, with sigh zas
gone
Canning. playing IN the drama o, Jane
Shore" AT a LONDON theateg ia 1sl1. PER
formed mis- part with great sriihancy and
gave no hint ~ the diseeSe which was eyi-
IDENTIFY Ranging him But az ne uttered
The Words. May such befau ne r. my
latest hour n reeIed. .eli on the stage.
AID yielded up the ghost.
Edmund Kean'a Last Act.
Edmund Kean's last appearance on the
stage was on March Is. ISg5, at cOvent
Garden taeater. London. where his son
Charles was playing an engagement.
Father and son had been announced as
OtneIlo and Iago. the town had been in
tensely interested in the performance, and
when the curtain EOss the house was
packed a. seldom before. The elder actor
was weak that MS voice sank almost
20 a whisper. and tae audience followed
his acting with a mixture Of pain and
pleasure. He begged has son 10 keep near
him Ia case OF some accident and the play
progressed as far as the speech ending.
Farewell ctheIio's occupations gone
IL was given with all the great tTaxedian's
power. and so impressed the audience
that they interrupted the speaker for some
minutes with storms OF applause. keau
stood motioniess; death-i!ke silence AT
last fell upon the house. the actor looked
around, only partially conscious OF MS
position. and slowly advancing 10 Iago. be-
gan, william, re sure-you-prove--''
when with d groan he fell on his sons
shoulder and family cried. ON. God am
dying, Speak n them Charles for me-
He Was carried from the stage. and the
curtain desc ended on him forever, although
he fingered for several weeks. passing
away on the 18th OF the following May
his last words a line from favorite play
john Harley an English comedian. noted
I'm his day FOR the delneation OF eccentric
characters. was filing the part Of Bottom
the Weaver in Midsummer Nights
Dream at the Princess theater. London
one night In lS5s. AS ne addressed "a, r.
tania the words, 81 pray you. let none OF
your people stir me. | have an exposition
to sleep come over me-" in the first scene
OF the fourth act. he fell forward and
passed into the sleep without end
Some years after. James Rogers who
had been ailns for many months. but had
struggled heroically TO master his disorder
was acting in a burlesque at the st James
theater. London He had convulsed the
audience with laughter by his dro.leries
and the tumutuous applause was still
ringing In his ears when he suddenly stag
gered OFF the stage and dropped into an
armchair. Rogers gasped for his wife who
ran to him He took her hand and. look
ing lovingly into her face. murmured, THE
little rufr.e is DER" ard WAS dead.
TN the American stage
Deaths due to natural causes on the
American stage have been few. Among
our players who actually passed away in
the theater and whose death was attrf-
buted 10 disease were John Abbott. who
died in the greenroom of the old Park the
ator; James Scott. whose Partially TO
sailor characters begot for him the extra
ordinary sobriquet OF Long Tom Coffin
Scott: Charles >. Bishop who died at the
Lyceim theater several years ago, after
finishing his part In Lord Chumley." and
Armand Customary. who passed away ut
the metropolitan opera house in FebriI-
airy. 1897.
Harry l.. Montague Was stricken with
his fatal Illness while playing at the Call
fotna theater. San Francisco. August. 1873.
Before the close Of the first act Of False
Shame" which was then Oh the boards,
ana IN which he appeared AZ Lord Chill
ton. Montague, he abandoned his lines.
walked TO the fo0tughts and beg
ged the astonished audience 10
permit the play 10 terminate. The
curtain was lowered. and tho actor
hidden from public view. when almost i'm
medatc!y he was seized with violent hem
orrhage az the lungs He vas taken 10
his dressing room: physicians were called
behind the scenes. but without avail He
died the following day at his hotel
Violence has more often furnished the
American stage with its real tragedies
About fifty years ago Simpson. q stage
carpenter, Was instantly killed at the old
~
In the wings and iu sight OF some of tbs.
audience by the counterwelsht Of the drop
curtain falling upon his head. Nj. PRAY.
tho father of Mr. " J Florence ard
Mrs. Barney Williams. was killed in an al
most similar manner on the stage OF the
broadway theater IN New York Richard
Ccanshaw. young actor. died on the
stage Of the Metropolitan theater San
Francisco 81 poison. self-aimtnistered A
Fanny Behzcn vas shot dead some years
ngo ~ Frank Frayne. the rife expert.
white supporting minute large, on her
head Tor the marksman 10 pierce This
tragedy was enacted I'm Cincinnati ohio
Annie Kemp young singer, was killed
IN 'phiA theatrr ny a fan while
playing IN The Rack Crock
An accident occurred on the stage os tho
Novelty theater. London. IN August. 1895.
IN the performance ot "A sensational u2rin-
drama. Temple Cu5xier. who enacted the
villain, Ms stabbed 20 death by an I'm
letU'uS young actor. Hao as one OF Tho
heroic figures 81 the play. was Cfepalte! to
Nee; lie Villain Ia 'hs tlD4l act and terrr;-
maze hta c3stSiY career This Young man
whose name Mas Franks. substituted a aua
ita1on stIletto for The Harmless, weapon
provided oy the property room IN order
80 surthor -" interests of sensational real
ism. Carried beyond himself in the Int,o-
So z bis rart, Franks lnstcad ~ reters.
nE thc knife IA AluElnE ~ the husot1l ~
-" "th~r actor allowed TIRE h,aie - pierce
Cr"@-Hrs side. cHttjng him - the heart
are causing almost instant de2fa
YIN Maf'A. iS'l IN an amateur perfor-
uaH'" - Rome" ara JH.jat." ~ tae Ca
Ur-ai schools Maucae-t@r the v.a-h~if