Identifier: lifeartofedwinbo00matt (find matches)
Title: The life and art of Edwin Booth and his contemporaries
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929, comp Hutton, Laurence, 1843-1904
Subjects: Actors Actors
Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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orge Darleyamong lyrical poets. No actor of the past prefiguredhim,—unless, perhaps, it was John Bannister,—and noname throughout the teeming annals of art in the nine-teenth century has shone with a more genuine lustre,or can be more proudly and confidently committedto the remembrance and esteem of posterity. Ibidyp. 229. MR. AND MRS. KENDAL. Mark you yon eager throng who gaze and glow,All fired with keen delight — as pastures fair,Dowered with sunshine in the midday air, Gleam in the presence of the god they know ! Each lip is tremulous with rapture : lo ! Round mouth of maid the laughing circles fare ;Or break on whitened beards or boy-cheeks bare ; By one soft smile all smiles are set in. flcyv Erewhile, perchance, sad sorrow had its place,Revealing pensive brows, and fraught with fears.This fair one to her magic hath no bound : Sweet Rosalind enchants us by her grace,Or proud Pauline our pity gains by tears — No dearer Queen of Art the whole world roundW. Davenport Adams.
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MR. AND MRS. W. H. KENDAL. MR. AND MRS. KENDAL. Margaret Shafto Robertson, better known as Miss Madge Robertson, best known as Mrs. Kendal, wasborn at Great Grimsby, March 15,1849 * She was theyoungest of a family of twelve, all more or less con-nected with the stage. Mr. T. W. Robertson, theplaywright, was her eldest brother, more than twentyyears her senior. At the age of three she appeared atthe Marylebone Theatre, London, as the Blind Childin the Seven Poor Travellers ; and at six sheplayed Eva in Uncle Toms Cabin at the BristolTheatre, where she remained for several years. OnJuly 29, 1865, she made her first appearance in Lon-don (since her childhood), playing Ophelia at the Hay-market to the Hamlet of Mr. Walter Montgomery,the lessee for the autumn season ; and a month later,at the same theatre, she played Desdemona to theOthello of the negro tragedian, Ira Aldridge. In theautumn of 1865 she was a member of Mr. Montgom-erys company at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham,and on Boxing

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