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Old barn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      The reappearance of Edwin Booth in New York, after his successes abroad, recalls to mind the first time he ever made his appearance in a star part in this or any other city. This event took place in New York at the old Chatham Street Theatre, and under peculiar circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Edwin was quite a pet with his great father, and picked up a great deal worth knowin\u2019 about actin\u2019 under his father’s care. The two used to travel around together, and Edwin kept his eyes and ears open for any \u201cpoints.\u201d After a while young Edwin could imitate \u201cthe old man\u201d first-class, and had caught all his little ways and stage tricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But Edwin caught other ways from his father besides his stage ways. Among others, he caught the old man’s trick of drinkin\u2019 freely, and father and son used to go on jamborees together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      About this time the elder [Junius] Booth took it into his queer head that it was a sin, a downright sin, to eat animal food\u2013anything that had been part of a livin\u2019 creature once, or had had any life-blood in it. So he wouldn’t eat any beef or mutton himself, and wouldn’t let Edwin eat any either. The two lived on eggs and vegetables and whiskey. Accordin\u2019 to the elder Booth\u2019s theory, what the first two of these articles of diet lacked in vital strength and nourishment was made up by the last; so the two generally got the last first, and did without the eggs and vegetables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      This was rather stimulatin\u2019 and excitin\u2019, but as Edwin was only eighteen years of age then, it rather told on the youngster\u2019s constitution, and, in fact, made him downright sick for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Seein\u2019 this, his father let up on his theory a bit, and although he wouldn’t eat any meat himself, he allowed Edwin to do so, only takin\u2019 his whiskey between meals. As for the old man, he kept on takin\u2019 his liquor all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      And one time he took too much and wasn’t able to appear at the Chatham Street Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He had been announced to play his great part, the only part in which he has never been equaled since, Richard the Third. The people appreciated him in this, and the boys in the pit went wild over him, consequently the old Chatham was crowded, \u201cstandin\u2019 room only,\u201d and not much of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Junius Booth as Richard III<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      But, although the manager kept the orchestra tootin\u2019 away as long as he could, Booth, the father, didn’t put in an appearance, and at last the manager made up his mind that he would have to make an apology to the audience, which was bad, and to refund the money at the box office, which was worse. The audience meanwhile got impatient, and stamped and catcalled and got obstreperous. The manager was in despair and cursed his fate and Booth heartily. Just then young Edwin came along, and the manager, lookin\u2019 at the boy, said: \u201cD\u2013n your father, for he has d\u2014-d me!\u201d \u201cBut,\u201d said Edwin, \u201cI believe I can save you yet. Let me play my father’s part.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The cool proposition nearly took the manager’s breath away, but Edwin repeated it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cYou will fail, boy,\u201d said the manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cNo, I will not fail,\u201d answered the boy actor firmly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cBut you are not up in the part,\u201d persisted the manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cI have seen my father in it so often that I know the lines by heart,\u201d insisted the younger Booth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cBut you have no time to prepare yourself,\u201d said the manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cI can prepare myself as I go along,\u201d  replied Edwin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cBut the audience won’t stand you,\u201d said the manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cThey will stand me for my father’s sake and for my own,\u201d said the boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cThen, cried the manager, \u201cfor heaven’s sake get ready and go on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Edwin Booth \u201cgot ready\u201d and went on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At first the audience was mystified, then a little huffed at havin\u2019 a substitute thrust on \u2018em, even if it was a great man’s son. But at last they took to the new Richard, and before the evenin\u2019 was over he had scored his first success as a \u201cstar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edwin Booth as Richard III<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cThe old man\u201d was proud of the youngster\u2019s triumph, and forthwith proposed to get drunk again to give his son another chance, which was actin\u2019 like a self-sacrificing father certainly, but Edwin talked him earnestly out of his purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      And here is where Edwin Booth showed the \u201chorse sense\u201d which, after all, is at the bottom of his character, as it is at the bottom of the characters of all successful people. Although he had then been a star in a success\u2013although he felt himself capable of doin\u2019 great things\u2013yet he quietly withdrew from his father’s company and all the chances that went with it, and started off to California, where he for five years did the line of a \u201cutility man\u201d at a small salary. He did this to perfect himself in all the branches of his art, so that he would know everythin\u2019 about it thoroughly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      His second appearance in New York as Richard was made about seven or eight years after his first, and strange to say, it wasn’t so good a performance as the first. It had more art and trainin\u2019 and all that, of course, but it hadn’t the original flavor of genius; and although Burton’s theatre was then very popular, and although Edwin Booth had every chance afforded him by the management, his Richard, at Burton’s, didn’t take make a hit like his Richard at the old Chatham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Just as the reappearance of Edwin Booth brought to my mind the foregoin\u2019 incident in his life, so the recent loss of voice on the part of Joe Jefferson, and his promised return to the stage, once more reminds me of that genial favorite and of an amusin\u2019 episode in his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Joe Jefferson has done well as an actor, and saved his money like a businessman, and that is almost all that can be said about him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He is full of good nature enough, has nothin\u2019 of the miser about him, and has a good deal of the Mrs. Toodles. He is fond of buyin\u2019 things, though he don’t exactly need \u2018em; still if they happen to suit his fancy he considers \u2018em \u201chandy to have in the house.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He patronizes auctions and bought a panorama once; he didn’t have any use for a panorama, but it pleased his whim and he bought it cheap. He found it dear enough though before he had got through with it. He had it finished up and hired an agent and a lecturer and sent \u2018em through the country with it. But it lost money at the start. Jefferson thought he would \u201ceducate\u201d the public taste to likin\u2019 his panorama, but havin\u2019 dropped several thousands in his \u201ceducatin\u2019\u201d scheme, he let the panorama drop at last. This panorama and the producin\u2019 \u201cThe Midsummer Night’s Dream\u201d in first-class style to fifth rate audiences are, accordin\u2019 to Jefferson, the only two mistakes of his life. Perhaps there are not five men in the country that can look back on only two mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joseph Jefferson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Jefferson has always been fond of fishin\u2019, shootin\u2019, country sports and farmin\u2019. His near friend and old chum, John Sefton, was also very fond of farmin\u2019, and had a snug place which he called \u201cParadise Valley.\u201d This farm of Sefton’s was kept in fine order, but his next neighbor was \u201ca shiftless cuss\u201d whose farm was neglected and whose dilapidated old barn (which immediately adjoined a stream which was Sefton’s prime delight), was Sefton’s particular aversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One Fine Day Jefferson came to pay Sefton a long promised visit, but came unexpectedly; so findin\u2019 nobody at the station he wended his way afoot, and came across Sefton in a decidedly unconventional position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He stood in the little stream with his breeches and shirt sleeves rolled up, tryin\u2019 to keep hold of a squeakin\u2019, kickin\u2019 little pig, which the fine old actor was tryin\u2019 to wash, but who would not be washed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The actor struggled, and the pig struggled, and the pig got the best of the actor, and gruntin\u2019ly glided from Sefton’s grasp into the stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sefton presented quite a \u201cpose\u201d as he stood and looked at the flounderin\u2019 pig, and Jefferson, who, as everybody knows, is somethin\u2019 of an artist, pulled out his pencil and sketch book and transferred the scene to paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Sefton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      By this time Sefton had recognized his friend, and when Jefferson had completed the sketch, went over to look at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He liked it very much, all but the old barn of his shiftless neighbor, which Jefferson had put in the sketch as a \u201cbackground.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cTake that d\u2013n barn out,\u201d said Sefton, \u201cthat’s a good fellow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cBut I can’t,\u201d answered Jefferson. It will spoil the general effect of the sketch if I do. That barn is very picturesque. Its very dilapidation makes it all the more so.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Sefton protested, but Jefferson insisted on keepin\u2019 in the barn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Sefton fumed in vain, but he had his revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Pretty soon a newspaper was sent to Jefferson at Paradise Valley, which was found to contain a paragraph statin\u2019 that Jefferson was in that section of the country just then, \u201cdrawin\u2019 the worst kinds of houses,\u201d and this paragraph was headed \u201cThe decay of a once popular favorite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Naturally enough Jefferson at once wrote an indignant letter to the editor denyin\u2019 the statement, demandin\u2019 a retraction and askin\u2019 for the names of the parties who had furnished the calumnious intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      To Jefferson’s utter surprise he received a letter from the editor (in answer to his own) giving Sefton’s name as the party who \u201chad furnished the columnious intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Amazed beyond measure, Jefferson took this letter at once to Sefton for an explanation, whereupon Sefton burst out laughin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cI can’t help, Joe,\u201d he said, between laughs, \u201cwhat the fellow says editorially, or the construction he puts upon my words, but I certainly did write him that you were was here, \u201cdrawin\u2019 the worst houses in the world,\u201d and that is true. For if there is a worse house in the world than that d\u2013n barn you insisted on drawin\u2019 in your sketch, just to spoil it, well, I don’t want to see the house. You understand, eh?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Yes, Jefferson understood\u2013and old man Sefton always chuckled afterwards as he told the story, to think how he \u201cgot even with Jefferson about that barn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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