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William Mitchell as Richard Number Three 161
George L. Fox as Hamlet 175
Lydia Thompson as Sindbad 179
Stuart Robson as Captain Crosstree 186
Harry Hunter as the Lone Fisherman 189
De Wolf Hopper as Juliet, and Marshall P. Wilder as Romeo 203
Munrico Dengremont 211
Josef Hofman 215
Otto Hegner 219
Elsie Leslie 223
Charles Stratton 227
Lavinia Warren 231
John Howard Payne 233
Blind Tom 235
Master Burke as Hamlet 237
Edmund Kean 259
William Augustus Conway 263
James William Wallack 267
William C. Macready 271
Charles Kemble 275
Charles Kean 279
Edwin Forrest 283
Edward L. Davenport 287
James Stark 291
Edwin Booth 295
Lawrence Barrett 299
James E. Murdoch 303
Charles Fechter 307
Henry E. Johnstone 311
John Vandenhoff 315
George Jones 319
Augustus A. Addams 323
William Pelby 327
THE NATIVE AMERICAN DRAMA.
THE INDIAN DRAMA.
"Do you put tricks upon 's with savages and men of Inde?"
That the American dramatists are trying very hard to produce American dramas all theatrical managers on this side of the Atlantic know too well, for shelves and waste-paper baskets are full of them to overflowing. Frequent rejection and evident want of demand have no effect whatever upon the continuous supply. How few of these are successful, or are likely to live beyond one week or one season, all habitual theatre-goers can say. During the single century of the American stage not twoscore plays of any description have appeared which have been truly American, and which at the same time are of any value to dramatic literature or of any credit to the American name.
"Good heavens, Mrs. Wyndham! It isn't a matter for self-gratulation. If I could have made you listen to me six--even two--months ago, I should not be here to-day, the bearer of such dreadful news," burst out the lawyer, impatiently.
"Wouldn't it be better, Mr. Hurd, to tell us quickly? You frighten us with hints," said Jessamy, in her silvery, even voice; but the poor child's lips were white.
Mr. Hurd glanced at Jessamy. "Yes," he said; "but it is not easy. I heard the definite news last night in Wall Street; rumors had been afloat for days. I wanted to give you one more night of untroubled sleep. It will be in the papers this evening."
"What will, Mr. Hurd?" burst out Barbara, impatiently.
"The failure of the Wyndham Iron Company."
There was dead silence in the room, broken only by the low-toned little French clock striking ten times.
"The company--failed?" whispered Mrs. Wyndham, trying to find her voice.
"What does that mean, Mr. Hurd?" asked Phyllis.
"It means that your mother's bonds and stocks are valueless; and as she holds everything in her own right and has kept all that your father left in the business, it means that your inheritance has been wiped out of existence," said the lawyer, not discriminating between the daughters and the niece in his excitement.
"How can it be--total ruin?" asked poor Mrs. Wyndham. "Henry gone but seven years, and such a splendid success as he left the company! How can it have failed? I don't believe it!" she cried, starting to her feet with sudden strength.
"Dear Mrs. Wyndham, it is too certain," said her husband's old friend and attorney, gently. "When they refused to open up the books for inspection, and you would not authorize me to take steps to compel them to do so, I knew this would come."
"Mr. Abbott--" began Mrs. Wyndham.
"Mr. Abbott is an outrageous villain," interrupted Mr. Hurd, passionately. "I have lain awake all night cursing him, or I could not mention him before you without swearing. He has got control of the corporation by holding the majority of stock, and he has run the thing on a speculative basis instead of a solid business one. At the same time, justice to his business capacity compels me to add that he has kept himself clear of possible failure, using the stockholders' funds and not his own for his operations, so that though you and others are ruined, he is safe. I shall never be able to make you understand the case more fully; but that is the sum of it, and he's a consummate rogue."
"But Henry trusted him--" essayed Mrs. Wyndham once more.
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