. Recollections of a player. on I entered for thesword-contests in the New York Athletic Clubgames at Gilmores Garden in 1878, and throughhis careful coaching succeeded in winning the ama-teur championship of America. I ought to explain that, aside from a natural in-terest I had always felt in contests of an athleticnature, I had been urged forward in my sword-practice by the hope that the accomplishmentwould better fit me for a dramatic career, andby having read in Rees Life of Edwin Forrest,that the three accomplishments deemed absolutelynecessary to an actor were singing, dancing, andswords
. Recollections of a player. on I entered for thesword-contests in the New York Athletic Clubgames at Gilmores Garden in 1878, and throughhis careful coaching succeeded in winning the ama-teur championship of America. I ought to explain that, aside from a natural in-terest I had always felt in contests of an athleticnature, I had been urged forward in my sword-practice by the hope that the accomplishmentwould better fit me for a dramatic career, andby having read in Rees Life of Edwin Forrest,that the three accomplishments deemed absolutelynecessary to an actor were singing, dancing, andswordsmanship — grace of voice, feet, and seem always to have been able to dance, and soI devoted myself to vocal culture and the smallsword. My inclinations were all toward , many of the Shaksperian parts had alreadybeen faithfully committed to memory. Later, as atest, I repeated the entire play of Hamlet — theacting version—without a book, and with but fewmistakes. I must add, though, that it was after. ^
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