New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-25
E. VI. HOLLAND DIES
FROM HEART DISEASE
Noted Actor Called for Aid and
Was Found Unconscious
Beside Telephone.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune. J,

| Cleveland Nov. 2i-Heart disease
caused the death at hospital here to-
day Of f. NJ. Holland. one of the lead
/ ing figures of the American stage.
Mr.. Holland came here yesterday to
play a weeks engagement in Years of
Discretion" with himself, Herbert Kelley
and Effie Shannon in the leading parts.
The actor was stricken al his hotel at
3 o'clock this morning. At that hour a
telephone call to the night clerk asked
that a boy be sent TO Hollands room
without delay.
Upon responding the boy found the
actor lying unconscious under the tele-
phone. Doctors who were summoned
worked for hours TO restore conscious
ness. but without avail
| Mr.. Holland was married. his home
being I'm New York.
Edmund Milton Holland was the son OF
/ George Holland. himself a well known
actor two generations ago. His mother
was Mary Seward, well known as a
/ choir singer in New York at the time that
she married Holland
! f.. NJ. Holland was born September T.,
| 1913, and made his first appearance as an
actor at Wallack's Theatre, in this city,
/ December 20. 1850 as Master Thompson In
ITO Parents and Guardians From 1868
to 1866 he was at Mrs. John Woods Olym-
pic Theatre and I'm the season of lS56-'6l
was at Barnums Museum
/ Mr.. Holland became a member Of Les
| ter Wallacks company in the fall OF
/ 1851, and remained with Wallack many
years. playing many parts. He played
| Williams In Town and Country; Toby
! Crackett in "Oliver Twist; Fag i'm The
| Rivals" and Cool in London Assurance.
/ He was at Wallacks until 1879 and then
went TO London. where he appeared at
! Sadlers Wells in 1889 as the Judge in
! The Danites."
! The following year he returned to the
/ Union Square Theatre Afterward he
was at Booths Theatre, and in 1883 APP
/ peared with the then famous Madison
| Square Theatre company. lie was at the
Madison Square until 1890, playing Gibson
/ I'm THE Private Secretary" Lot Burden
! in Saints and Sinners" Socrates Brown
| ing in "Our Society" Captain Redwood
| in Jim the Penman' and other parts in
now forgotten plays
In 1891. at Palmer's Theatre. he APP
peared as Colonel Moberly I'm Alabama"
and later played Colonel Fairfax Carter
! i'm Colonel Carter of Gainesville" He
also played Colonel Cazenove in THE
New Woman" and Flbert Rogers in "Es
meralda." He was seen at the Garrick
! In 1895 as Hooper in The Man with a
Past" In 1896 he appeared as Fag in the
all-star east of The Rivals" at the
American Theatre.
In the next few years he appeared in
"A Superhuous Husband" Hearts Are
Trumps" and The Shades of Night" He
appeared as the Pope I'm The Eternal
city" and then, for three years. played
Captain Bedford in "Raffes." Mr.. Hol
land went into vaudeville for time i'm
1907. and then joined Otis Skinner TO play
I'm The Duel" This was followed BY en-
gagements In THE House with a Thou
sand Candles" THE Battle" Foreign
Exchange" and as Sir Oliver Surface i'm
| THE School for Scandal" He played in
"Old Heidelberg The Blue Bird" NO
body's Daughter" and The Arrow
maker"
For many years Mr.. Hollands brother,
Joseph. appeared with him. but Joseph
was compelled to give up the stage some
years ago.
+. NJ. Holland married Miss Emily
Seward. an actress, some years ago. and
they had two children, one of whom Is
Miss edna Holland, who appeared with
her father I'm THE Arrowmaker." The
wife and two children survive.
When f.. NJ. Hollands father died, in
1870 friends went to a minister to get him
To perform the funeral service. The
clergyman said be could not. but that
there was "a little church around the
corner" where they. would bury an ac-
for II was thus that the Church OF the
TRANSPORTATION, in East 10Th street re-
celved the title that has since chung to 1t.