Joseph Jefferson; reminiscences of a fellow player . eople honored them-selves in honoring. 345 JOSEPH JEFFERSON I have always wished it might have been Jef-fersons lot to pass away upon the stage, — not,as his great-great-grandmother had done, in afit of laughter, nor as Edmund Kean had endedhis days of acting, when, sinking into his sonsarms, he exclaimed, I am dying; speak tothem for me! nor yet as Betterton or PegWoffington, who were forced by sudden illnessto close their careers, after which they passing of Jefferson, it always seemed to me,would have been appropriately beaut
Joseph Jefferson; reminiscences of a fellow player . eople honored them-selves in honoring. 345 JOSEPH JEFFERSON I have always wished it might have been Jef-fersons lot to pass away upon the stage, — not,as his great-great-grandmother had done, in afit of laughter, nor as Edmund Kean had endedhis days of acting, when, sinking into his sonsarms, he exclaimed, I am dying; speak tothem for me! nor yet as Betterton or PegWoffington, who were forced by sudden illnessto close their careers, after which they passing of Jefferson, it always seemed to me,would have been appropriately beautiful if, in thesleep scene of Rip Van Winkle, he had onenight never awaked. In the fervor of my imagi-nation I could see the awe-filled audience filingsilently from the theatre, careful lest by someinadvertency they might disturb the dreams ofRip, now, indeed, at rest with the ages in aneternal sleep. A gracious Providence selectedas the day of his going hence that on whichShakespeare was born, that Shakespeare whowas Joseph Jeffersons Bible. 346. THE GRAVE OF JEFFERSON AT SANDWICH, by Charles A. Walker INDEX INDEX Acres, Bob, on Charles A. Abbespicture of Jefferson as, 286. Adams, Edwin, 159. Adams, Gus, Jeffersons opinionof, 250. Adams, Maude, 65. Anderson, Mary, Jeffersons opin-ion of, 251; as Juliet, 269,270. Autobiography, Jeffersons: howhe came to write it, 236-237;brief extracts from, 331-333. Barrett, Lawrence, 167. Barrie, J. M., his Little Minis-ter, 65. Barrymore, Maurice, anecdote of,218. Benedict, E. C, publishes Jeffer-sons lines on Immortality,17S. Booth, Edwin, Jeffersons friend,142; Jeffersons opinion of,142, 143-148, 250; Jeffersonsopinions of his roles, 212, 213;Jeffersons opinion of his ap-pearance as a young man, 213;in minstrels, 249. Boucicault, Dion, his version of Rip, 34; Jeffersons opinionof, 41; Jefferson meets, 159;Jefferson on his version of Rip, 266; on his acting, 267;his income, 267; his memory,268; Jeffersons opinion of his pe
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