. The life and art of Edwin Booth and his contemporaries . s : For the little ones. If this were flung at theheads of the audience the idea would fail. But touches every sympathetic chord in thewhole house. It can no longer be said that this excel-lent actor is merely a haw, haw swell, though ofcourse there are critics careless or indiscriminatingenough not to see that the actor has utterly discardedhis stiff and angular method. Clare Lincoln, in DramaticReview\ March 7,1885. MR. LAWRENCE BARRETT. TO LAWRENCE BARRETT. When Burbage played the stage was bareOf font and temple, tower
. The life and art of Edwin Booth and his contemporaries . s : For the little ones. If this were flung at theheads of the audience the idea would fail. But touches every sympathetic chord in thewhole house. It can no longer be said that this excel-lent actor is merely a haw, haw swell, though ofcourse there are critics careless or indiscriminatingenough not to see that the actor has utterly discardedhis stiff and angular method. Clare Lincoln, in DramaticReview\ March 7,1885. MR. LAWRENCE BARRETT. TO LAWRENCE BARRETT. When Burbage played the stage was bareOf font and temple, tower and stair ;Two backswords eked a battle out,Two supers made a rabble-rout,The throne of Denmark was a chair ! And yet, no less, the audience thereThrilled through all changes of despair,Hope, anger, fear, delight and doubt-When Burbage played ! This is the actors gift — to shareAll moods, all passions, not to careOne whit for scene, so he withoutCan lead mens minds the roundabout,Stirred as of old those hearers were,When Burbage played ! Austin LAWRENCE BARRETTAs Cassius in Julius Caesar. MR. LAWRENCE BARRETT. In the two decades that have elapsed between theending of the civil war and the time of this writing, ofmany notable careers that have had their developmentupon the American stage that of Lawrence Barrett isone of the most interesting. It is none the less inter-esting because happily it is not only not ended, but isin its period of most active and energetic present estimate of Barretts place in his art or ofhis relation to our stage can have other than a passinginterest, and must be made to seem insufficient andunsatisfactory, when considered a little time hence inthe light of his higher transition. John McCullough,Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett have been thethree recent figures of our stage. The first is takenuntimely away, the second is about to retire at thezenith of a splendid career, and the third is the manof opportunity. A scholar, a man of w
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