Joseph Jefferson; reminiscences of a fellow player . ,said to Jeffersons son : Joe, your fadder he play in show ? 324. CHARACTERISTIC DAYS Yes, said Joe. That Mr. Florenz man, he play too ? Yes. Look, Joe, you watch dose two ole boys cutup monkey shines, you learn some thing good,sure! 3*5 CHAPTER IX CONCLUSION CHARLES LAMB, writing of Munden,says : I have seen this gifted actor inSir Christopher Curry — in Old Dorn-ton — diffuse a glow of sentiment which hasmade the pulse of a crowded theatre beat likethat of one man ; when he has come in aid ofthe pulpit, doing good to the moral heart of ape
Joseph Jefferson; reminiscences of a fellow player . ,said to Jeffersons son : Joe, your fadder he play in show ? 324. CHARACTERISTIC DAYS Yes, said Joe. That Mr. Florenz man, he play too ? Yes. Look, Joe, you watch dose two ole boys cutup monkey shines, you learn some thing good,sure! 3*5 CHAPTER IX CONCLUSION CHARLES LAMB, writing of Munden,says : I have seen this gifted actor inSir Christopher Curry — in Old Dorn-ton — diffuse a glow of sentiment which hasmade the pulse of a crowded theatre beat likethat of one man ; when he has come in aid ofthe pulpit, doing good to the moral heart of apeople ; and Talfourd says of him that hewas in high farce where Kemble was in lighttragedy. These words, spoken nearly a century ago ofthe comedian Joseph Shepherd Munden applynow with especial appropriateness to Acres, Pangloss, Ollapod, Golightly, and thehumorous phases of Rip and Caleb Plummerwere as fine in quality and effect as the bestserious efforts of his contemporaries. He was in high farce what Edwin Booth was in high 326. JOSEPH JEFFERSON AT PALM BEACH, FLA.(September 26, 1904) CONCLUSION tragedy, and he was, moreover, indebted to noparticular man as a model. In those parts ofRip Van Winkle and The Cricket on theHearth requiring pathos, Jefferson, like Mun-den, not only kindled the feeling of sentimentin the breasts of his auditors, but fanned it intoa flame that expanded and enveloped the heartsof the multitude. With exquisite delicacy andrare power he combined pathos with humor, andin doing so towered head and shoulders aboveany comedian of his time and generation. By theforceful touch of his genius plays written for an-other age took on a new and prolonged which his predecessors had used with com-paratively indifferent success became in his handsthe delight of two continents, and brought himthe attention and admiration of the ablest mindsof the day. Not everybody admitted the existence of amoral lesson in Irvings story, and these Ge
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