The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-10
SERVICE FOR ACTOR STUDLEY
HRITF IND az IET. ~ ON FIVE
PIiIIR MN PItNNED Ut.
:. the LATTE . Rter'aker'- Sh"p were
Gathered some who kn~~ him when
lie EnarIrh the Hest OF hI> iO'esS'
RsIrs AZ the Old no~rrS Theatre.

Dutsi,t,. "A hiil. und"rtaker's shop AZ I
~ Third aNruu. a h.arse and a single |
carriage stOod for a time Yesterday alter |
moan Toward u.clucN men Logan tn 3
gather IA IN" runtn az the back, where
the BODY II John BrreSford Studley,
actor lay A. the hour ot struck
man arose from the seat at the head OF
the coffin spoke for about five minutes
1T 10" dead man and then the forty ar ="
gathered together. 81 whom only one
wIS woman. nl~d past ia" body and
then INTO the street
There were f,w IA IA" gathering whose
names ara nov familiar along broadway
Bat th"s. Who w-rr standing about IN
groups h,.Tpr. th" brief service told what
a famous actor John Suldley had been
~ his day and ss,id 10 each other that his
"nd WIS that uf Ia" actor wh" cares only
''r hiS ART aud not business
Henry l. D,Ney told how lac had played
with >tudlay 49, far back as - or - IN
Under IN" Gasligh' -Stud"y's PER
furmance of The Bells SAID Mr. DiNsy.
not "a take aWav credit from another
actor nov dead. was far better than hls.
Studl''ys fault was that he was purely
aud simply an actor and knew nothing
Z
Yes. SAID William J Fleming, stud
lev was AN actor The last tim" ! saw
hun on ~" stage wa- SON" eighteen or
twenty Years ago. when n" was WIN
Margaret Mathrr Rat had known him
many wears first saw HIM IN Boston,
winch must have h"..u a. far hack as ~
II vas "a a pl'-'. called NChnyl
I wrut that uIeC" said Me- lnskey
equity clerk - the city Court. who con
: i,'-s.- tn YEAR. has written s''yentV-hv"
d NaN ~
autobiography under th" tItl" -k''cOllec-
tIuu~ 81 an odd Player i knew Studley
when he Appeared - th" Bowery Theatre.
when G-org" l. Fox came tack from th"
Wa. IA 90
Ihan their. were Jacques CrtIRer who
0. Having IN 'h" -Folics ~ 1910, Ben
HAYS the old tune minstrel Nat Rshrens,
10" veteran manager. Will Hartman, an
It'd 'lm" circus performer, William Moore.
th.' comedian. and James y Armstrong.
''" manager and former actor he
woman Ir.,-.ut was Mrs Edwin Arden
daught.r u N, lat. Thomas " keane
Ga" funeral address was delivered hy
Arthur Alnreand ono" an actor and
nov editor 81 N" Ibs inii'y. who saId
ho had ts.su friend ut John Studley Tor
forty four years Jack Studley.- said
Mr Nur.laud Jft"rward was on" 81
the most prominent figures on the Ameri-
can stage a generation ago lie was at
times leading man tYr Charlotte iushman.
-Cn Mary anderson and Margaret Math"r.
"" PLAYED NOR" parts than any other
, actor Il tl- time. having ,ppear"d in
mor,' than 1905, I6l"s W. was IN" first
nan o. iltV 'No character Of RUN1iI Hil
~ tn. stage and there wa- one occasion
WLru hHal, Bill 'irst com" east IN the
H..-n and stood ou IA" stage 1T the old
Rpwory Theatre alongSld" IT Studley. and
Won yould pot ~, them apart
-Studl"y had hr"d fDr the last seven
yeIrs at - tlguth av"nu" He was
ind"p.ui"u' hv uatuT" and would never
ar,"pt . cent # charity ! Relieve be-
knew every lime of Shakespeare and
Dickens ny h"aT'
uatIv" Il Bpst0n and y descendant
, - an old NayTow"r family. Studlsy
started puf m life - a newspaper mar
and ran the SOr't tdrOiiHiob IA Charleston
from 1919 To- iS5e HIS first appearance
upon 'u. stag. was made IN PrOyIden' .
Iu INI1 ~" Wa ~ on" Tim" manager u
f'N.. FRONT 'r''..f Ih"afV" "a Rdltinorr an,
Ir 10 amt Is. ran IN" National Theatre ~
Cincinnati Tia" last flm" h" Appeared
.H 'G' ~tlg" Nas m " when h." was
'uI-luE Oh" country. though he took
part % e performance for ~" actors iun'
~ k"I Bank ~ - late A. 1879