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A DRAMATIC CRITIC more than her beauty. I incHne to think that she really did read pretty well ; in- deed, I am sure that she read Tennyson's Lad}^ Clara Vere de Vere uncommonly well. But I now perceive that there was no reason for my speaking of her and the great Sarah Siddons, her great-grandmo- ther, in the same breath, or even in the same week. A little later I received a punishment which fitted my blunder, when she essayed acting, and I was obliged to comment on her performance. Yet that she could not act does not prove that she could not read. Many excellent readers have failed utterly upon the stage; -per contra^ a few fine actors have not been acceptable as readers. But if one could have heard Mrs. Scott-Siddons through one's eyes, they would have been " worth all the rest " of the senses, and her playing would have seemed peerless. Many of my readers will be surprised and amused to learn that every decent, [ 30 ]
EXPERIENCES AND MISTAKES outspoken critic raises up against himself a bod}' of hostile unprofessionals, princi- pally of the more excitable sex, — strong in numbers, too, if weak in brain, — to whom he \s persona excessively ?ion g-rata, simply because he has dispraised, or even not sufficiently praised, their favorite per- former. There is something deliciously droll, and something rather touching, in such partisanship, inasmuch as the allies are, as a rule, strangers to the actor, who is therefore the object of their distant and purely disinterested cult, and also is usually a player of no great reputation. There is not a critic of a prominent daily newspaper who does not occasionally note the scowl- ing brows and basilisk glances of strangers who detest him for his disparagement of some one, — he can seldom guess whom. Boston is of all large American cities the one in which such cherishers of sentiment are rife, because it is the most ebulliently naive of all American cities in its passion [ 31 ]
Page 1 and 2: UNIVERSITY OF CA RIVERSIDE, LIBRARY
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Page 10 and 11: COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY HENRY AUSTIN CL
Page 13: NOTE The reader is informed of what
Page 16 and 17: CONTENTS XVII. ADELAIDE NEILSON 1 5
Page 19 and 20: REMINISCENCES OF A DRAMATIC CRITIC
Page 21 and 22: INTRODUCTION and fascinating folk,
Page 23 and 24: INTRODUCTION My equipment for my ta
Page 25 and 26: II Spectacle, Farce, Melodrama, and
Page 27 and 28: THE STAGE FIFTY YEARS AGO But what
Page 29 and 30: THE STAGE FIFTY YEARS AGO men had c
Page 31 and 32: THE STAGE FIFTY YEARS AGO with two
Page 33 and 34: THE STAGE FIFTY YEARS AGO of the tr
Page 35 and 36: THE STAGE FIFTY YEARS AGO a man of
Page 37 and 38: THE STAGE FIFTY YEARS AGO bill of f
Page 39 and 40: Ill The Worth and Impotence of Free
Page 41 and 42: IMPOTENCE OF FREE CRITICISM hinting
Page 43 and 44: IMPOTENCE OF FREE CRITICISM applaud
Page 45 and 46: I IV Some Early Experiences and Mis
Page 47: EXPERIENCES AND MISTAKES quent appl
Page 51 and 52: V Selwyn's Theatre and the Robert-
Page 53 and 54: SELWYN'S THEATRE Sargent Curtis ; a
Page 55 and 56: SELWYN'S THEATRE Colorado and the t
Page 57 and 58: SELWYN'S THEATRE that of the life o
Page 59 and 60: VI The Ephemeral Drama and the Endu
Page 61 and 62: THE EPHEMERAL DRAMA culiar to their
Page 63 and 64: THE EPHEMERAL DRAMA have no essenti
Page 65 and 66: VII The Great Dramatic QyiNQiJENNiU
Page 67 and 68: DRAMATIC Q_UINQ.UENNIUM ton : first
Page 69 and 70: DRAMATIC CtUINQ^UENNIUM — by clos
Page 71 and 72: VIII William Warren, Comedian BOSTO
Page 73 and 74: WILLIAM WARREN presented in the dra
Page 75 and 76: WILLIAM WARREN Apropos of the large
Page 77 and 78: WILLIAM WARREN must submit to a rec
Page 79 and 80: WILLIAM WARREN voiced organ. There
Page 81 and 82: WILLIAM WARREN depth and suggestive
Page 83 and 84: WILLIAM WARREN through a vast galle
Page 85 and 86: WILLIAM WARREN Senator from Massach
Page 87 and 88: TRAINING FOR THE STAGE any other th
Page 89 and 90: TRAINING FOR THE STAGE actors, and
Page 91 and 92: TRAINING FOR THE STAGE not brought
Page 93 and 94: TRAINING FOR THE STAGE rade;" Mr. M
Page 95 and 96: TOOLE AND MATHEWS Mrs. Rousby, who
Page 97 and 98: TOOLE AND MATHEWS rapidity against
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TOOLE AND MATHEWS finesse, and dext
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CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN figure and homely
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CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN was great, the ac
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CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN act, has been dis
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CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN be so pronounced
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CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN mendations " and
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THE XII E. A. SOTHERN, Sr. most not
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E. A. SOTHERN, SR. inverted as in a
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E. A. SOTHERN, SR effective for mir
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E. A. SOTHERN, SR. thrown completel
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E. A. SOTHERN, SR traordinary were
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E. A. SOTHERN, SR. Tragedian, a dra
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E. A. SOTHERN, SR sought or seeking
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THE ISOLATION OF ACTORS plish. Behi
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THE ISOLATION OF ACTORS fictive mat
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THE ISOLATION OF ACTORS rary life w
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DURING XIV Charles Fechter the seas
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CHARLES FECHTER holding the lease o
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CHARLES FECHTER psychic scheme, but
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CHARLES FECHTER man, treasure, pabu
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CHARLES FECHTER clouds, where Shake
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CHARLES FECHTER and in his final dy
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CHARLES FECHTER Glavis, there was a
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CHARLES FECHTER on lines already in
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CHARLES FECHTER internal discords,
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THERE is XV Edwin Booth no occasion
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EDWIN BOOTH A famous nomen I called
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EDWIN BOOTH creations, because of t
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EDWIN BOOTH ated with his name. Tha
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EDWIN BOOTH gance and distinction o
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EDWIN BOOTH thus to distinguish the
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TOMMASO SALVINI combination tolerab
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TOMMASO SALVINI the past fifty year
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TOMMASO SALVINI ing Shakespeare and
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TOMMASO SALVINI of rare delicacy be
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TOMMASO SALVINI interpretation of K
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TOMMASO SALVINI Every phase of the
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TOMMASO SALVINI and sobbing; strong
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TOMMASO SALVINI fresh and unconvent
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XVII Adelaide Neilson NO player in
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ADELAIDE NEILSON failing health, sh
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ADELAIDE NEILSON to be much remembe
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ADELAIDE NEILSON ing interview with
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ADELAIDE NEILSON " False to his bed
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ADELAIDE NEILSON remember the beaut
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ADELAIDE NEILSON belongs, and at th
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XVIII Memorable Experiences of Sing
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MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES carded, and t
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MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES mon touch as
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MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES worked less s
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MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES under the nam
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MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES George P. Lat
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XIX An American Theatre Privately E
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AN ENDOWED THEATRE and let the expe
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AN ENDOWED THEATRE for histrionic s
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AN ENDOWED THEATRE direction. I saw
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AN ENDOWED THEATRE will not always
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HENRY IRVING against any lively dis
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HENRY IRVING greatest actor of his
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HENRY IRVING at least to reflect an
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HENRY IRVING have said that he hope
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HENRY IRVING ficial and unessential
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HENRY IRVING the subject of wonder
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HENRY IRVING face is found to be si
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HENRY IRVING grip which he at once
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HENRY IRVING on the stage to the la
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HENRY IRVING superstition, which it
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HENRY IRVING movement of the hands
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HENRY IRVING faculty which is like
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HENRY IRVING that madness with whic
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HENRY IRVING and method to which I
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HENRY IRVING it is the source of th
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HENRY IRVING with beautiful softnes
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HENRY IRVING regal action in mounti
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HENRY IRVING boon to the stage of E
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HENRY IRVING tual with the spectato
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HENRY IRVING courage. Nearly all th
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HENRY IRVING own powers is the chie
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INDEX
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Enchanted Beauty, The, 9. Enchanted
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ElectrotyPed and printed by H. O. H
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