Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-28
! GOOD COUNTERFEIT
Marshalltown qheater Goers Saw
Coghlan's Understudy and Not
the Eminent Actor.
Coghlan Had Not Been With the
Company For Four Weeks on
Account Of Illness.
His Death Causes the Cancellation
Of All the Company's En-.
gagements.

coin was also right when he said that I
all the people can. not be fooled all the !
time. While a large number of people of
this city have been fooled, they were
agreeably hoodwinked, and there are
many others. The fact of the matter is
that Charles Coghlan, the eminent ac-
tor. did not appear in Marshalltown last
Friday night but was i'll in Galveston,
Texas, and has since died.
Monday afternoon the Associated
Press dispatches announced the death
at Galveston, Texas, of Charles Cogh-
Ian, the actor. The dispatch was brief,
and as the eminent actor was supposed
to be filling few dates in the larger
cities of Iowa it was presumed that the
Coghan who died in Texas was
some one not SO well known. 1t now de- |
velops that while 1t was Coghlans own
company with his own play that APP
reared in Marshalltown and elsewhere,
the leading role .was taken by the emil
nent actors understudy. A later dis
patch from Galveston says:
"Galveston, Texas, Nov. 2S.-Charles
Coghlan. the actor and dramatist, died
in this city yesterday of acute gastritis.
His wife was at his bedside when the
end came and is Frustrated with grief.
He had been i'll here since Oct. 80. Inc
Royal Box Company played all through
Texas with the stars understudy I'M
personating the famous actor, appar-
emily to the satisfaction OF the pubic.
Mr.. Coghlan was 56 years of age. he
was Of English and Irish parentage, be-
r. Z Ia on ri
ed fondness for the stage and became
nm actor when boy. He was educated
for the bar, but never practiced his
early profession. At the time OF his
death he had nearly finished his dra-
matization of Vanity Fair for MS
daughter. The remains will be taken to
Prince Edward Island, his summer
home. The manager of the company
has been instructed by wire to cancel all
further engagements.
..Mr. Coghlan had been, If he was not
at the time of his death, one of the most
successful. players of his kinda fact
made more noteworthy by his excellent
ability as a writer of plays. For many
years Of late Americans saw more Oh
him than did his own countrymen OIL
England. 1t was in London, however,
that Mr. Coghlan established his earli-
eat claim to fame as an actor. anu ~
was there-at the Prince of Wales The
ater-that his most important engage
uents were played between the years
1870 and 1876.
"Refore that time Mr.. Coghlan had
acted ON London boards with Indifferent
success He had appeared at the Olym-
mic. st. James, the Holborn and the
Lyceum. On April %. 1870, he took the
mart of Chudleigh Dunscombe IN the
first performance of NJ. p, and at once
drew to himself the most faVoraple az
tentfon. Then followed excellent work
as Angus McAllister in Ours, George
d,Alroy in Caste and as Alfred EvelyI
In Money
I'm 1874 a revival Of the School FOL
Scandal gave Mr.. Coghlan an oppor
tunity of playing the part OF Cnarle'
Surface. After another triumph a.
Harry Spreadbow in W. $. GILBERT
Sweethearts. Mr.. Coghlan, IN 1919
played Shylock and failed. The CRU
clsm made upon him on that occasion
was that he avoided not only tradi
tional points, but all points Whatever
and where emphasis was naturali
suggested it seemed that he naturall
stunned it, In the same year MI
Coghlan sustained the part of Claud
in The Lady of Lyons.
I'm 1876 Mr.. Coghlan visited tn
limited states and remained here thre
Years, He returned to LONDON. but hi
love OF the states drew him back, an
since that time he has been f1xtur
on the American stage. He was NEAR
while writing plays, some of them SUI
cessful and some OF them failure
Among these productions may be mel
toned Lady Flora Brothers,,
ouiet Rubber and Lady Barter
Probably Mr. Coghlans best work as
PLAYER was that he did in Diplomacy
few years ago at Palmers Theater
New York. In his own play of Lac
Barter he appeared with Mrs. Langtl
and with his sister, Rose Coghlan. II
last appearance was In his own play
The Royaf Box.
After the company appeared in Sio,
city and Marshalltown 1t played in D
Moines and on Monday night was
appear in Cedar Rapids, and tonight
Davenport owing to the canceling
the dates, however, the performance
Cedar Rapids was not given n
Coghlan's daughter was with the COZ
pany and appeared here as Ce
Bryce.
Coghlan'S underStuuy, whoever
may be, is entitled to medal. He W
hiding his own light under bushel
consenting to act as understudy
Coghlan or any one else. He was su
an excellent counterfeit that he pass
at face value wherever he appear
and il Marshalltown theater-goers W,
fooled, because they knew Coghlan
reputation only, they have the con!
lation of knowing that theater mar
gers and theater-goers in much lars
cities have been no wiser than tn
were. Even If 1t was not Coghlan VIII
they saw, 1t was an artist of the fl
rank, and IL he comes back to Nj
shalltown under his real name q
with good play the people will 4
plaud him.
We up this way appreciate now h
Grinnell felt when 1t was discove
that the citizens of that town had b.
showering their applause sand ii
compliments on Clay Clements und
study.
Manager speers of the Odeon, was
much surprised today as any one WI
he learned that CoghIan was not h