The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-30
STUART ROBSON'S LONG SERVICE
BROUGHT TO AN END BY DEATH
Well-Known Comedian Dies
in New York City.
DEATH FROM HEART DISEASE
For 81 Years q Leading Actor IN
STANDARD and Modern Comedies.
A Varied and Useful Life.

Stuart Robson. long distinguished as
8 comedian and producer of plays. died
last night at the Hotel Savoy. His ill
ness dated from the early part of March.
when he was obliged to rest from work
for about two weeks IN the course Of
a tour through New York state he be-
came i'll seriously in Auburn. N Y, and
was taken TO New York city. His death
occurred in the Hotel Savoy and was due
20 heart disease.
The body viii be buried Friday at
cohasset. Mass,
The theatrical season now closing
marked the fifty-frst year of Mr. Rob
sons services on the stage It was de
voted. by a fitting coincidence. C the
two plays with which mis- fame is most
eoncerned-"The Henrietta" a comedy
dependent for its success entirely on Mr
Robson's stage personality. and The
Comedy OF Errors" which he rescued
from its station as & medieval farte aaa
established on the plane Of shake
speares other comedies.
Stuart Robson was Marylandcr:
played "theater'' as a boy with Edwin
and John Wilkes Booth in a stable en-
South Street. Baltimore; was a page IN
the Senate With Arthur P. German,
found his early triumphs in John e
owens and John T. Ford's company
al Baltimore, married a Maryland We
man. and left many personal and pro
fessionaI friends IN that State
For time he was a compositor in
the Office of the Baltimore Sun
Marylanders have always claimed
Stuart Robson as their OWL
Born In Annapolis, Md, March 1, 1896,
he had fust passed his sixtyseEenth
year The son Of a prosperous lawyer,
his early education was liberal. and it
Is related that he was a remarkably apt
scholar. Stuart Robson's love for the
stage was born of the performances Of
strolling players who from time to time
made one-night stands in Annapolis. In
Baltimore, whittier the Robson family
removed about 1s48. his opportunities
for gratifying his theatrical tastes we're
sensibIy increased, and-who will be
Heve tit was with fond desire to
become a great tragedian that young
Hex He Became an Actor.
Not long before his death he told this
story of how he became an actor:
II had run away from my home IN
Baltimore and had drifted to Washing
ton with my playmate, Arthur Pue Cor
man. ana for several weeks I was on
the verge Of starvation. German had a
lot of push, and he landed as page in
the Senate, but somehow I couldn't con-
meet. But I used to hang about the Cap
itol Just the same, and one day German
came TO rne and said:
Rob, If you see Dan Webster he'll
fix you. I saw Mr. Webster and within
a week I was made a page IN Congress
Daniel Webster, TooInbs of Georgia, and
Jefferson Davis acted as my sponsors
I served two terms as page, and one
afternoon I received an invitation from
John Sleeper Clark and Edwin Booth TO
Join q company which they had just
formed in Baltimore to tour Delaware
and Virginia in Shakespearean plays
did not know what 10 do. It was at this
:. time that / met Mr. Webster. He vas
hurrying toward the Senate chamber
Il said 20 him: ''sir Webster, have
had IN offer 10 90 on the stage, and do
you think it great chance for ne?'
Advised by Webster.
Yes. my boy ! do answered Mr.
Webster. You were cut out for an
actor and not for a statesman. I saw
you yesterday laughing at one of An
drew Johnson jokes ana your laughter