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iv, Mansfield's ttichcirc! III.
iiichard Mansfield was born in Berlin, of British --.rents, in
1854: thv'.s he was Tree's junior by one ye, r, and Irvin »s by
sixte n. His career began in !•' 76 v/h.-n he joined BIT. and rrs
'enn. n Reed, but hie fir,;t success wao rs oir Joseph ^ >rter,
K.C..3., in II . •. i . ,.> , I-'iu foro. :,t n."..f i old w< s too temnerwneat:-! and
inventive to work hazily for ilbert, and -i'tcr a quarrel, he
loft t.ie company - he had O'evi; -ted from the putior'c prom^tcopy
in his performances as the Major-Saneral in The ./'i.r- toe
" of ~~~"1 Penzance, ""^•••— and — ,- later clr.i led to '.:; VG "written" t^- r n\r,±c of
the oat»cr-r. oag . He joined the cof ; r:y which was p
a version of Offenbrch'c V: '"o..il-'rr orG y wit:i a bo k by ;i.B.
Parnie, at the Globe in A »ril 1881, and in 1882 ao emi T' t 1
to Amerie .
In 18b8 Mansfield rctux-neu to ;)0ru on, h-:vin^ LI; -de n cor-^it -
orrble rcrvut '.tion in Worth A: 'oricn -,ith an rtc'a^t.-'.tion of _r
Jokyll ana .'r ilyde» Ue leased the Lyceum Thco re, opening on
2 August v;ith a version of Stevenson* g atory v/hich I^id be n
made for him by T.Rucsell Sulliviin and which the novo?_ict had
authorized. The lerforrannce was a success, and ?*rji'jfi Id'c
quick changes, in full v ew of the audience, from Johyll to
Hyde v;orr . ccli'iricd ao a tour de force. The Civntious Critic
(I.-j. r.IJ., 18 Aul.7iot 1088) v/v/.s not uiid,ly ir.nrecsod with t.ic
ar>ne;irance of Fyde, "a forocious little ci-c-aturc, v/ita tio
a -m-jitii'^ of :.;uiln