. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. mother, Cor-nelia Frances (Burke) Jefferson, were all capableartists, the latter being especially noted as a vocal-ist. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February20, 1829, he was reared in a theatrical atmosphereand made his first appearance before the footlightsin Washington, District of Columbia, at the age ofthree years, as Coras child in Kotzebues play ofPizarro. His active connection with the stagebegan imm
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. mother, Cor-nelia Frances (Burke) Jefferson, were all capableartists, the latter being especially noted as a vocal-ist. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February20, 1829, he was reared in a theatrical atmosphereand made his first appearance before the footlightsin Washington, District of Columbia, at the age ofthree years, as Coras child in Kotzebues play ofPizarro. His active connection with the stagebegan immediately after the completion of hisstudies, which were pursued in the public schoolsof New York City, and several years travel withstrolling players in the middle and southern statesprovided him with the experience necessary fororiginal work. Having established a reputationsufficient to enable him to appear in the leadingstock-companies of the United States, he achieveda long list of genuine successes at the Arch StreetTheatre, Philadelphia, then under the managementof William E. Burton, and also at Laura KeenesTheatre, New York, where he shared with the late VOL. IV. — 7. J. JEFFERSON the notice of Dion Boucicault a hastily constructedadaptation of Washington Irvings amusing legend-ary story of Rip Van Winkle, which had been pre-sented in New York with some success by Chanfrauand J. H. Hackett, as well as himself. That alertdramatist, perceiving in the litde two-act play mate-rial which promised well for a successful drama,skilfully readapted the story, with the result that theAmerican actor not only achieved a brilliant successin London, but found the great opportunity of hislife. The original London production of Bouci-caults version of Rip was in 1865. It ran morethan one hundred and fifty nights, and since thattime it has been more closely identified with career than any other work in which the 98 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS latter has appeared. It is stil
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