Recollections of a player . nd played. The cast includedRose Eytinge, Charles R. Thorne, Jr.,Stuart Robson, John Parselle, FrederickRobinson, Eben Plympton, Fanny Morant,Nina Varian, and others, and the openingwas November 23,1875. The play ran al-most throughout the season. Mr. John Parselle was the stage-managerof the theater. I had never met him be-fore, but I knew that he had been for manyyears in London, at the Haymarket, theLyceum, and the Adelphi. He came toAmerica with Mr. Charles Wyndham, andhe acted for a season with Mrs. John Drew,at the Arch Street Theater, Philadelphia,previous to
Recollections of a player . nd played. The cast includedRose Eytinge, Charles R. Thorne, Jr.,Stuart Robson, John Parselle, FrederickRobinson, Eben Plympton, Fanny Morant,Nina Varian, and others, and the openingwas November 23,1875. The play ran al-most throughout the season. Mr. John Parselle was the stage-managerof the theater. I had never met him be-fore, but I knew that he had been for manyyears in London, at the Haymarket, theLyceum, and the Adelphi. He came toAmerica with Mr. Charles Wyndham, andhe acted for a season with Mrs. John Drew,at the Arch Street Theater, Philadelphia,previous to joining Mr. Palmers also knew that he hailed from had, therefore, no hesitation in speedilymaking myself known to him. We be-came fast friends and companions, and re-mained so until his death. He was a rarescholar, a linguist of great ability, an au-thority on all matters of disputed pro-nunciation. He had been a teacher oflanguages in Glasgow, but, like Alexanderand my father, became stage-struck and172. Charles R. Thorne, Jr., as Count Be Vernay in Rose Michel. RECOLLECTIONS OF A PLAYER entered the profession. He had marrieda Scotch lassie and had a large family, allof his children having been born in Lon-don. Jeannie, as he used to call hiswife, was the most simple and lovablewoman that could be imagined. She didnot join her husband for two years afterhis coming to America, and Parselle wouldoften tell me that although he had beenso many years in London, his wife knewlittle or nothing about theaters, alwaysremaining at home looking after thebairns. She had a lovely Scotch accentthat I delighted to hear. When her hus-band was acting, and I happened to beout of the performance, he would some-times ask me to escort Jeannie to thetheater, and I frequently did so. She hadseen so little of acting that it was mostamusing to hear her comments upon theplay. Mr. Stoddart, she would say, Inever like the fellow that plays the ken him the moment he comes oot
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