Albuquerque morning journal., 1916-11-16
With Scissors and Paste
TuE CENTENNIAL or SHERIDAN


tkHHsHs city STAR
The man who wrote for his time
"the best comedy (School for Scan
| dab according to the opinion OF
Lord Byron, who was not given to
| the scattering of praise among his
! ContempoTarie best drama
! Crhe Duenna), the best farce CThe
! Critc), the best address CMonologue
on Garrick), and, to crown all, de-
: liVcrcd the best Grafton ttho famous
! Begun spceCh) ever conceived or
| heard" in England Richard Brins-
| hey Shoridan-died 100 years ago
| poverty stricken, abandoned by mis-
! friends, prisoner for debt.
! A shcriffs officer served papers
on him on his death bed and was
preparing to carry him in his blank
cts TO the debtors prison, when death
| proyidcntially saved the bailiff the
! trouble. But at his funeral there
/ walked two royal brothers, the Duke
| Of York and the Duke Of Sussex,
/ while the Duke Of Bedford, the Earl
( Of Lauderdale, Earl Mugraye, the
| Lord Bishop Of London, Lord Holland
! and Lord Spencer noble com
| pany-carried his body to the grave.
| SO. also, It Will be remembered, they
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| $500 for his punchbowl. So wags this
merry world along.
! one hundred years is a long time
/ to be dead, and many great deeds
/ find their way into the aims wallet
Of oblivion within that time. Sheri-
| dams great comedies and dramas
/ have almost entirely left the boards
/ and his Begun speech is remembered
Ionly by the schoolhoy declaimers, but
/ he has left one immortal character
/ Of his creation to do perennial honor
/ to his memory familiar friend,
/ Mrs. MalaprOp. She is still a prime
/ tavoritc with the paragraphers and
/ the inspiration of "A host of imitators
/ disguised under various names.
! Mrs Malaprop made her first ap-
I penrancC upon the stage at the Gov
| ont Garden theater, London in l775,
! where Shcridans play "The Rivals"
/ I'm which she appears, was first pro-
duced. The part was taken by Mrs
! Green as she was billed In the or
! igual cast The play was at first
severely criticized by the public, and
! Mrs Malaprop was singled out for
especial denunCiation as an outrage
GUS Caricaturc.' Perhaps 1t hit
/ home in too many places In that day
Of blue stockings and literary affect
/ ations. II was said. however, that
/ sheridan drew Mrs. MalaprOp from
an Original OF his acquaintance--a
well known minuet dancer OF that
/ period This Is not hard to believe,
! for while the colOrs are perhaps
laid on thick in "The Rivals" there
was undoubtedly q Mrs. Malaprop to
be found in almost every social circle
Of Sheridan's time, and she has left
/ numerous descendants in both the
male and the female line who sur
. vlyc TO the present day And long
Imav the Malaprops wave to bright
ON the pragmatic path
Sheridan was born in Dublin In
I1761 He died In London i'm 1916,
/ He was twice married, the first time
to Elizabeth Linley, the daughter Of
q wen known composer, and a woman
Of remarkable charms His second
wifc was Esther Jane ORlc, daughter
Lof the dean of Winchester Hc was
elected to Parliament in 1850 and
served until tSt2, filling during that
time many of the highest cabinet Of
frcs.