Intimate recollections of Joseph Jefferson . Photo by Clinehirst LAURETTA JEFFERSON AS MEENIE VAN WINKLE (SIXTH GENERATION) JOSEPH JEFFERSON 315 carrying a spear—or rather, disguising ourindividuality, as dwarfs in the mountainscene in Rip. I nodded my head with therest and imagined I was the whole 1 show, andengaged the entire attention of the audience. 1felt they were all looking at me, and not at myfather. We had to earn the right to the familyname. Father regarded that as too sacred athing to be bandied about among a group ofinexperienced actors, even if they did happento be his own sons.
Intimate recollections of Joseph Jefferson . Photo by Clinehirst LAURETTA JEFFERSON AS MEENIE VAN WINKLE (SIXTH GENERATION) JOSEPH JEFFERSON 315 carrying a spear—or rather, disguising ourindividuality, as dwarfs in the mountainscene in Rip. I nodded my head with therest and imagined I was the whole 1 show, andengaged the entire attention of the audience. 1felt they were all looking at me, and not at myfather. We had to earn the right to the familyname. Father regarded that as too sacred athing to be bandied about among a group ofinexperienced actors, even if they did happento be his own sons. Mr. Jefferson sent Tom to Paris to completehis education and to study the French methodof acting, with which, however, his son was notimpressed; his criticism being that the actorsdirected their attention too much to the audi-ence. He remained five years in Paris, learn-ing to speak the language like a native, almostto the exclusion of his own. Upon leavingschool, he went to Sheffield, England, to obtainhis first theatrical engagement, mo
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