The autobiography of Joseph Jefferson . with, Oh, I beg your pardon, I mean This of course settled it. F. S. Chanfrau, while he acted a vast number ofcharacters with success, will be best rememberedby those who go back some thirty years ago, as Mose, the fire boy. He was the talk of thetown for two seasons or more — when I first sawhim he was extremely handsome. He was modest,too, and manly. These qualities are so rarely alliedto beauty that Chanfrau comes back to my remem-brance as quite a novelty. He had success enoughto have turned his head, but he bore it bravely, sothat he must
The autobiography of Joseph Jefferson . with, Oh, I beg your pardon, I mean This of course settled it. F. S. Chanfrau, while he acted a vast number ofcharacters with success, will be best rememberedby those who go back some thirty years ago, as Mose, the fire boy. He was the talk of thetown for two seasons or more — when I first sawhim he was extremely handsome. He was modest,too, and manly. These qualities are so rarely alliedto beauty that Chanfrau comes back to my remem-brance as quite a novelty. He had success enoughto have turned his head, but he bore it bravely, sothat he must have been as well poised in his mindas he was in his person. His imitations of For-rest, the elder Booth, Macready, and Burton wonhim hosts of admirers. John T. Raymond, like Florence, J. S. Clarke,Owens, and myself, was known as a legitimatecomedian. This is a somewhat technical term,usually applied to those actors who confine them-selves as strictly as possible to the acting of char-acters in old English and Shaksperean F. S. CHANFRAU. OF JOSEPH JEFFERSON 421 Raymond was also, like those actors previouslymentioned, a creator of American characters. Heappeared as Ichabod Crane in a dramatizationof Washington Irvings Wolferts Roost, andalso as Col. Sellers in Mark Twains GildedAge. The latter character he acted with greatsuccess for many seasons in this country, thoughthe play failed to create any enthusiasm in Eng-land. I preferred him in his acting of Ichabod was a quaint and strong performance; his lovescene with Katrina was acted in the best spirit ofcomedy; the serio-comic expression that he threwinto this woe-begone, love-sick swain was irresist-ibly droll. Raymond was energetic and industri-ous, acting up to the very night before his death. I saw McCullough act but once, and then he wasill, so that I could scarcely give a fair judgment ofhis talent. He was undoubtedly a great favoritewith the public, and much admired by his friendsboth as a man and
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