The Washington herald., 1913-09-14


interest and fascination. unlike any 9TH
er, and in class by themselves, appear
as the shadows floating across our vision
awakening pleasant memories and asso-
Citations in one long, tireless show-a
passing show of events gone by, never to
be enacted again on this terrestrial
sphere. Most of the participants have
been called" to their final resting place
where there are no more "one-night
tiresome and wearing Jumps" with their
inadequate accommodations after reach
ing hotel, accompanied with a grand
rush for sleeping apartments: no sleep
less nights of study and long, fauguing
rehearsals during the day. no spiritless
praise or fulsome adulation; no irate, UNI
reasonable, exacting, and unappreciauye
public to please; no adequate roles Tor
husband and wife in same company; no
petty strife produced by matrimonial
conditions of envy, jealousy, and back
biting; no more-we hope all. is rest
after Iife's fitfuI fever" AS passing
review, with joy, laughter, song frolic'
pomp, ceremony. might, majesty; the
Kaleidoscope never presented more varied
combinations or colors as they faded.
one after another, many Of them you
will never see the like again. A theme
always inviting attention, filling niche
Of its own: nor does the daily happenings
in the busy world detract from the
deeper interests of the SHOW world.
The theater-going public changes lts
tastes, IDEAS and worship 1t is variable
and uncertain. What we now call sue
.ess' would have been such an innoVa-
ton in the days gone by that 1t wouio
not have been tolerated. How the Old
timer sits up and takes notice as ne
reads where a disposition is shown py
some manager to revive an interest IN
the plays that are shelved, but not Lol
gotten. she Stops to Conquer me
GOod-Natured Man, Lohooh
ance," The Rivals" Wine Works won,
ders." THE Wife" THE Marble Heart
THE Fools Revenge" and others tnat
would fill a column.
The actor in the period Of when we
write played many parts, MS NersaDntS
being conceded as one OF MS sreates'
assets The study was productive OF IN
telligent thought, as the readlns Vi LIE
lines attested Hamlet's advice 10 the
r,Iavers not to mouth it was rarely
necessary in enactments in those days:
The reuertoire was extensive ana
varied. no one knew il better than
member of the stock company Inc
average companies were good' OeIHS
called upon to support any actor or &C
CIIIIough, Booth, Davenport, Murdock'
,Ianauscheck, Jean Lander, Jefferson
Maggie Mitchell, and others, generally
finding their support ready and waiting:
Flaws that have scored success abroad
are eagerly sought by our American
managers preferably than venture
chances with home talent. Art no"
seems to play a secondary part IN stasc
presentations, where it formerly was the
requirement of the successful artist. Inc
theater business is a paradox: either
most lucrative enterprise or one OF the
rrecarious investments OF the age.
Do YOU remember. Edwin Forrest, John
Mccullough. Edwin Adams, James w;
Wallacx, and his two sons, Henry ana |
Lester, Joseph jefferson, Joseph PROCTOR |
Lawrence Barrett, GeneVieve Rogers |
Charlotte Cushman, Kate ClaXton, Fam
ME Herring, Dion Boucicault, Edwin |
I, Davenport Tom Keene, Mary Ander-
son Charles Fechter. Robert Downing
Stuart Robson, Mile. Won StammetE'
Laura Keene, John 4. Owens, Helena
Jodieska. Emma Abbott, George >. :
KNIGHT Emily Soldene, Alice Oates.
clara Louise kellogg, Charlotte Crab
tree. Lucille and Helen Western, James
F. Murdoch. Mckee Rankin, Fannie
Davenport. Frank Mayo, Joe Emmett
Clara Morris, George l. Fox, John l..
Brougham, and many more not men
toned here. for their name is legion?
John Mccullough.
How it must have grieved Genial
John TO see long, lean, lank Mike Ian
agan strolling through the streets OF
Rome with an American flag tattooed
upon his right arm, his body draped
with a Roman toga. and shortly after
in the green room" light a cigarette
and enjoy it immensely. Ii looked pc
culiar, to say nothing else, seeing this
long. altenuate6 citizen of Rome work
ing on the rolled fragrance. 1t was a
rare sigh, and l venture to say no
bona tide resident ever beheld a SINH
lar one I have heard John indulge in
remarks (aside) that he never studied
while reading his part. Mr. McCul-
Tough was worthy of being reckoned
among the first of contemporaneous
actors.
He was noted for his strong, vigor-
GUS electrifying. and masterful imper-
sonations of Cade, Lear. Othello, Iago,
Hamlet, Richard III, Gladiator, Vir-
ginius, Richelieu. Coriolanus, Pizarro,
Yrutus, and others. His versatility was
bouudIess his massive physique on
par with his great big open heart He
admired his vocation, was enthusiastic
for it's elevation, and then comes in
his fool friends with feasts and ban
uuets. daily and nightly, until Genial
John" succumbed to the Inevitable,
covering fifty and three years.
7 knew The Governor" intimately
and have spent many pleasant hours
with him listening to his narratives Of
earlier DAYS His banQuets and feast
ings were always rendered and at
tended by the bright bon vivants OF
the cities in which thew were given,
notably so were the gatherings at the
National Capital. During an engage
ment here, way back yonder in 1871,
The Governor" had given an unusual
" fine presentation of 'Virginius," fol-
lowed by a banquet that lasted into
the small hours of the morning. I'm
after the performance DR.. C.
c. Cox, a member of the Board of
Health and a medical authority, sent
letter TO Mccullough commencing the
saying he had made lin
sanity" study. had Travelled through
Europe, visiting asylums, studying the
inmates. He could not refrain from
writing to him on the subject 1t was
realism" and he would take greatf
Measure in mentioning the perform
ance in his forthcoming treatise on
The disease finally ended
their lives. Being so closely in touch
with both entertained fears for some
time that / might be the third.
John was rehearsing some supers one
As they were doing every
thing they should not have done, he be-
came impatient and, with that terrific
voice said: Cant you do this as have