The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-06-13

HENRY G. BARNABEE.
| English actress and for long Yeas the
artistic associate of Henry Irving, who
dominated the English stage, has been
on the stage for more than forty years.
She married an actor few weeks ago.
The Are Mrs. Gilbert after profess
sional career extending over many
years went starring when she was at
have retired to the chimney corners
and ingIe hooks of life.
There are upon the stage in this
country today dozens of women who
were they engaged in other pursuits
would long ago have decided that they
were old enough to retire.
The stage, then, is by far the best
occupation in the world for old WON
en-. 1t is also ine field for old men
Indeed, in these stirring days in which
there is talB of chloroform to be used
alta certain age and when men find
that they cannot get positions in some
lines after they are forty years old the
stage is about the only field of human
endeavor that extends its arms wide to
the middle aged and the old.
Frank c. Bangs who retired from
the stage not long ago after he had
been given fine benefit performance,
| is an old mali. The grandfathers Of to-
| day remember him as Mark Antony
| and Romeo. The fathers saw him as
Mercutio. The theater goers of today
| have seen him in many roles of middle
age and old age. Yet Bangs had no
| thought of retiring from the stage Tin
| til he met with an accident. When he
was Struck by horse in the street and
sustained injuries from which com
plete victory never would be possible
he gave up the stage But just to show
how earnestly the desire for the stage
fingers on he gave at his last perform
ance the grafton which as Antony he
had made over the. corpse Of Caesar at
| the performance of the tragedy many
years before 3e
William Dean Howells was seven
| ty years old not long ago. His birth
| day merited and attracted a great deal
of attention. Still ON the stage active
players who are seventy are not un
common. There was Henry Clay Bar
| nabee, who persisted in singing the
| part of the sheriff of Nottingham In
robin Hood until he, too, met with
physical accident and was compelled
| to retire. The lSostonians, that fine
! company of singers of lighter opera,
| had fallen upon evil days by the time
| that Barnabee's hard luck caught UP
with him, but the old man was brayely
going forth into vaudeville there to re-
| pair his fortunes. Then he was hurt,
was compelled to retire and was given
| a benefit which rendered unnecessary
any further solicitude for the future on
| his part
Joseph Jefferson lived and acted til.
a green old age. During his later
years, AS did Edwin Booth, he restrict
| ed the length of his season Booth ad
| mitted that he did this because he
| feared to become trite and stale at
| traction. His star was going down
| anyway when he died JeffersOn'.s was
shining at the place where it had been
for years. Jefferson at the approach of
old age shortened his seasons that he
| might have more time to play in. to
camp in his Louisiana bungalow, to
| fish with former President Cleveland
and to paint pictures for his friends,
| Although most of the actors have
/! gone on the stage young, David Car
rick, who certainly was one Of the
mosA distinguished who ever have ap.
peared upon any stage, was along In
years before he made his appearance.
| He had embarked in the business OF
| selling liquor before he went into that
of playing parts. indeed Horace Wal
pole in those incompatible letters OF
his speaks of him as "a wine merchant
turned player" And WalLole did not
| like his professional achievements half
/ as much as the world agreed to like
! them later.
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