The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-30
MAURICE BARRYMORE
TAKEN TO BELLEVUE.
Popular Actor for Weeks Has
Shown Constantly Increasing
Signs of Insanity.

New York. March 2s.-Maurice Barry
more. actor. wit and raconteur, was taken
Friday afternoon to Bellevue Hospital,
where he had been committed pending an
examination to determine his sanity.
His actions recently have been 50 erratic
as to cause his friends alarm, and 1t was
deemed best to send him to an institution
His health began to fail last December.
when, as a member Of the company Of Miss
Marie Burroughs. he forgot his lines and
acted in the most peculiar manner. He re-
the vaudeville stage
In the recent agitation concerning the
sslsries Of the branch Of the theatrical
Mr.. Barrymore espoused the cause of the
performers. His friends say that the ex-
citement caused by the brief vaudeville war
system.
Bought Twenty Suits Alike.
Mr.; barrymore wrote letters. made IN
terminable speeches and in neither class OF
he was talking Of his disapproval Of man
ayers or Of the decadence Of literature.
His symptoms in the last ten days have
Pittsburg with no money and twenty suits
OF clotS>s of the same design, which he
had purchased for sl4 suit;
decisive action had come last Thursday
night. when Mr.. Barrymore stopped in the
middle Of BIS performance and. advancing
to the footlights, hurled bitter invective
until those in the audience held their
breath in astonisisnent.
He began with the theatrical managers.
and as he warmed to his theme, he revtled
all races OF men.
He announced that he was going to q
Broadway chop house. Instead, he went to
He retarned to e'e the city Frday r en morning %
and told the story Of fight which he had
with a policeman on the Fort Lee ferryboat.
Incidentally he expressed the opinion that
he had killed a man who had interfered.
Talked of Gigantic Schemes.
Mr.. Barrymore for the last three days had
been most of the time at the Lambs Club
in West Thirty-sixth street. In such af,
that the members would have permitted
him to remain there indefinitely had it not
been for the BELIEF that he would exercise
his great strength in wrecking the furni-
ture.
AS It was. he wandered about the club
talking in ina :, rsm5ng a9rs way OF gigantic
Mr.. Barrymore's children. who are now in
the city-Miss Ethel Barrymore and his
youngest son. John Barrymopsmaetiaed I'm I,sc ,Se,l
father under restraint. They had several
consultations with Augustus Thomas and
with Joseph d RddSf Nd & Mesf Shef
street. opposite the Lambs Club.
Barrymore wns taken to Bellevue by q
He is much emaciated and his once we'll
knit muscles are weak and habby. The
physicians in charge of the pavilion eX-
press the opinion that his constitution Is
shattered.
Maurice Barrymore made his last appear
ance in St Louis with the Marie Burroughs
cnmpany. which played at the Century The.
efer oool,t two months ago. He stopped a,
fhc Planters Hotel during the week:
Chief Clerk Chidsey said Friday night tina,
Mr.. Barrymore's actions were somewhat ou!
of the ordinary. His attention was called
10 the actor one day while he was passing
through the lobby. Barrymore appeared
v-eyvoI1a and I'll at ease,
Several guests at the hotel noted tha
something was not right with Mr.. Barry
more but It was presumed he was simpi,
overwprked and worried