John Drew . n dress wasworth heeding. As an actor, he wasbuoyant, unaffected, and entirelycompetent in the light roles thathad thus far fallen to his share,though the notes of tenderness andfervor he has since struck so surelywere still a trifle beyond his Drew was married, in thespring of 1880, to Miss JosephineBaker, daughter of Lewis Baker,an actor of renown, who died onthe very day his future son-in-lawmade his first appearance on the] 6^ y O H N DREW stage, March, 1873, ^^^ ^^^ wife,Alexina Fisher, an actress of skilland repute. The Bakers were atheatrical family as renowned as
John Drew . n dress wasworth heeding. As an actor, he wasbuoyant, unaffected, and entirelycompetent in the light roles thathad thus far fallen to his share,though the notes of tenderness andfervor he has since struck so surelywere still a trifle beyond his Drew was married, in thespring of 1880, to Miss JosephineBaker, daughter of Lewis Baker,an actor of renown, who died onthe very day his future son-in-lawmade his first appearance on the] 6^ y O H N DREW stage, March, 1873, ^^^ ^^^ wife,Alexina Fisher, an actress of skilland repute. The Bakers were atheatrical family as renowned as theDrews, and Miss Josephine Bakerhad been an actress a little whilebefore her marriage. Compara-tively young old stagers * mayremember her as a remarkablypretty and taking girl in the firstperformances of My Awful Dadat Wallacks. In the secondseason of the Florences in BenWoolfs comic piece called TheMighty Dollar, she was Libbie, — Libbie Dear,* as the vivaciousMrs. Gilflory called her youngcompanion. 66. JuHN DREWAs Robin Hood in Tlie Foresters J O H N DREW Prosperity settled upon DalysTheatre in its second season, al-though the managers policy wasstill somewhat confused by hislingering desire to establish, as itseemed, a new school of musicalcomedy. In the occasional musi-cal pieces, Mr. Drew had no , a Mexican piece that nobodywho does not treasure a collectionof playbills can remember, andOur First Families^ a farce byEdgar Fav/cett which was verywell meant but hopelessly barrenof new ideas, were early new playsof the autumn of 1880, in whichMr. Drew had characters. Butpresently, in Needles and Pins, he J O H N DREW and Miss Rehan were playing vis-a-vis again to some good purpose,and Mrs. Gilbert and James Lewis,who had now rejoined their oldmanager to remain with him untildeath did them part, were keepingthem good company. This wasthe first of the comedies from theGerman in which the renownedquartet appeared together. MissRehan was a mischievous miss inher t
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