FACING PAGE Three Great Richards. George Frederick Cooke, Jun ius Brutus Booth, and Edmund Kean . Edmund Kean as Othello After a drawing from life by John William Gear A "first night" at the second Park Theatre, New York, in 1822. the stage The elder Charles Mathews is shown on From a water-color drawing by John Searle Exterior of the Park Theatre, New York From a drawing by C. Burton William Augustus Conway 128 129 144 Drury Lane Theatre, London, in which Edwin Forrest Ellen Tree, (Mrs. Charles Kean), whose sister popular ized "Home, Sweet Home" Mrs. John Drew, Senior, as Mrs. Malaprop. The mother of Edgar Allan Poe William C. Macready Fanny Ellsler From a drawing by W. K. Hewitt 214 215 Master Joseph Burke After a drawing by T. Wageman Frances Anne Kemble . From the painting by Thomas Sully Mrs. Siddons as Lady Macbeth After the painting by Harlow John Philip Kemble After the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence Madame Vestris as Olivia in "John of Paris" Lotta as The Marchioness Maggie Mitchell as Fanchon Tyrone Power After a drawing by D'Orsay The French Opera House, New Orleans, erected in 1860 255 Junius Brutus Booth and his young son, Edwin. Edwin Booth as Hamlet . 295 304 305 FACING PAGE Playbill of "Our American Cousin" on the night John 377 384 385 390 Thomas D. ("Jim Crow") Rice Tony Pastor, after a caricature by W. J. Gladding Lillian Russell, "Airy, Fairy Lillian," at the height of her radiant beauty Weber and Fields in "Whirl-A-Gig" Playbill of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at the National Thea tre, New York, in 1853, with the original cast Interesting copy of a lithograph poster advertising the Morris Brothers Minstrels in 1867 Adah Isaacs Menken and Alexandre Dumas, père Interior of Niblo's Theatre. 391 412 413 442 Lydia Thompson as Robinson Crusoe. James W. Wallack Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt Dion Boucicault as Con, in "The Shaughraun" James H. Hackett as Colonel Nimrod Wildfire James A. Herne in his own "Margaret Fleming" Minnie Maddern Fiske as Becky Sharp E. H. Sothern as Hamlet 482 483 Denman Thompson as Joshua Whitcomb in "The Old Richard Mansfield as Cyrano de Bergerac |