New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-13

Hermann Vein was born in Philadel-
phia on March 2 1929 His first appear
ance on the English stage was at York in
1850 His last appearance was in April of
last year, when, at eighty years Of age.
he appeared with Beerbohm Tree in 1.-The
School for Scandal" at His Majesty's The
atre in London
Mr.. VEINS father was Charles Henri
Vein. a merchant of Philadelphia, and his
MISREPRESENTATION Pierre de Vein.
who was born in 1854. had romantic his
tory. He lost all his property and had to
fly for his life after the revocation of the
Edict of Nantes because. although he him
self was a Catholic, he had given aid to
some Huguenots. He fed to Hanover and
there was engaged to play the viola in the
orchestra of the French Theatre He mar
ried the daughter of the manager of that
theatre. Marie Charlotte de Chateauneuf,
and became the father Of ten children. One
of their daughters married a de Lfsle and
became the great-grandmother of Rouger
de Lisle, who wrote La Marseillaise.'
Herman Vein was educated in Phila-
delphia and graduated from the University
Of Pennsylvania with the degree of Master
of Arts. When a young man he was COM
PEELED by failing eyesight to go to Berlin
for treatment, but in 1850 he went to Lon
don ard obtained an engagement at the
Theatre Royal, York. He met with success
in the field he had adopted, and in the
following year, at Ryde, he was seen as
Shylock. an appearance which he followed
up with successful interpretations of
Claude Melnotte, Young Norval, Richelieu
and Sir Edward Mortimer.
He made his debut in London at the
Princess Theatre in 1852 as Pembroke in
king JOHN with Charles Kean. For many
years after this London debut Mr.. Vein
played Shakespearian roles in the prov
inces and in America, and after a series of
such tours, in 1889 he took the Surrey
Theatre In London for six weeks opening
the engagement with Macbeth and play
ing later Hamlet, Othel1o. King John, Shy
lock. Louis XII and Sir Giles Overreach
Mr.. Vein in 1868 married Mrs. Charles
Young, a famous actress. In 1864 Mr.. and
Mrs. Vein appeared together at the
Princess Theatre in Donna DIANA" and in
rapid succession came Mr.. VEINS appear
ances in The Man of Airlie," olivia lin
which he played DIR. Prinrose), "Danl
Bruce and The RightfuI Heir On which
he was the Sir Grey de Malpas)
When SheIley's tragedy THE Genet"
the Grand Theatre. London, in 1885, Mr.
Vein portrayed Count Cencf When, in
February, 1889. it became necessary for
Henry Irving to withdraw from the cast
Of his revival of Macbeth" at the London
Lyceum, owing to a serious attack OF
throat trouble. Mr. Vein substituted for
him. in recognition Of which service Irving
presented him with d splendid diamond
~iy oy,l -1l- So To-
Haymarket, London. the esteem in which
the actor was held by British theatregoers
found expression in a benefit rendered him,
from which a generous sum was realized.
Mr.. Vein became identified with the
earlier Introduction of George Bernard
shaw's plays to Londoners, and was prom
inently cast in the production of You
Never Can Tell at the Strand Theatre, in
May. 1860 In July of the same year he
appeared at the Grand, at Fulham, in a
play by Edward Ferris and Paul Heriot.
called "A Silver Wooing. His last i'm
portant appearance in London was made
under the most suspicious conditions whom
he was cast as Rowley in the an-star re
vivaI of The School for Scandal. made
by Sir Herbert Tree, at His Majesty's
Theatre, last April. In the cast of this
production with him appeared Sir Herbert,
Marie Lohr. Edward Terry. II. v Esmond.
Henry Neville. Robert Lorraine, Basil Gill.
Ellis Jeffreys. Susanna Sheldon and James
Hearn-
Under particularly sad circumstances,
while temporarily insane, Mrs Vein took
her own life in London in April. 1902 She
was buried in England. Mr. Vein was
long regarded as one of the foremost train
ers of young actors and actresses in Eng
land and had given a great deal'of his
time in late years to that work. He pro-
NOTED, too. numerous dramatic recitals in
London during the theatrical seasons