. Recollections of a player. ram of Erminie 48 Mr. Wilson as Cadeaux, in Erminie ... 50Mr. Wilson and W. S. Daboll as Cadeaux and Ravennes, in Erminie 52 The Little Peach, facsimile in Eugene Fields handwriting 54 Miss Marie Jansen, signed 56 Program of The Oolah 58 Mr. Wilson as The Oolah. J. Cheever Good-win. Mr. Wilson as Mellisen, in The DevilsDeputy. As Giuseppe, in The Gondoliers 60Mr. Wilson as David, in The Rivals . .62Mr. Wilson as The Merry Monarch . . .65Mr. Wilson and Charles Plunkett in The Merry Monarch 66 Program of The Merry Monarch . ... 68 Miss Lulu Glaser, signed 70 John and
. Recollections of a player. ram of Erminie 48 Mr. Wilson as Cadeaux, in Erminie ... 50Mr. Wilson and W. S. Daboll as Cadeaux and Ravennes, in Erminie 52 The Little Peach, facsimile in Eugene Fields handwriting 54 Miss Marie Jansen, signed 56 Program of The Oolah 58 Mr. Wilson as The Oolah. J. Cheever Good-win. Mr. Wilson as Mellisen, in The DevilsDeputy. As Giuseppe, in The Gondoliers 60Mr. Wilson as David, in The Rivals . .62Mr. Wilson as The Merry Monarch . . .65Mr. Wilson and Charles Plunkett in The Merry Monarch 66 Program of The Merry Monarch . ... 68 Miss Lulu Glaser, signed 70 John and Jess, the cherubs in TheMerry Monarch 72 Illustrations. xi OPPOSITE PAGE. Mr. Wilson as Peter Griggs, in The Chief-tain 74 Mr. Wilson as Tirechappe, in Half a King . j^Mr. Wilson, Miss Glaser, and Mr. Lang in Haifa King 76 Mrs. Mira Barrie Wilson, signed 80 The Orchard, New Rochelle, N. Y. . .82 ERRATA. Page 20, line 5. For James A. Hearne read James A. opposite page 52. For W. H. Daboll read W. S. EMILY VON ERDON WILSON, AND HER SON. RECOLLECTIONS OF A PLAYER. JOSEPH JEFFERSON once said, in responseto a question put to him, that the differencebetween an orator and an actor was that the oratornever had to listen ; that the actor not only had tolisten, but that he had to listen as if he had neverbefore heard what was being told to him for per-haps the thousandth time. Mr. Jefferson drawspretty much the same distinction between the artistand the actor — the artist painting a picture once,while the actor paints the same picture nightafter night, but always (or it should be always)as if it had never before been painted. And so forhours have I heard this prince of table-talkers —this actor, orator, artist, writer, connoisseur — dis-I 2 Recollections of a Player. course seriously and eloquently upon his own andkindred arts, yielding nothing in respect and appre-ciation to these arts above the high plane uponwhich he has placed his own. I have heard himte
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