{"id":570,"date":"2023-08-07T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T19:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=570"},"modified":"2023-08-07T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T19:09:15","slug":"the-frst-successful-american-dramatist-published-may-18-1884","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/the-frst-successful-american-dramatist-published-may-18-1884\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Successful American Dramatist [published May 18, 1884]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dunlapwilliam-1.jpg?resize=200%2C246&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-571\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">William Dunlap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I attended Boucicault\u2019s recent address to the theatrical profession, and while listenin\u2019 to his interestin\u2019 remarks got to thinkin\u2019 about the first Native American dramatist this country ever produced, William Dunlap, whose name is even to-day remembered respectfully by those interested in the early days of the American drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; William Dunlap will always have a claim to be remembered as bein\u2019 the first regular American dramatist who wrote plays for a livin\u2019, and who actually made a sort of livin\u2019 by writin\u2019 \u2018em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dunlap&#8211;I am told he was the progenitor of my old friend, Tom Dunlap, ex-commissioner of jurors&#8211;was a Jerseyman by birth, born at Perth Amboy, of middle-class, respectable parentage. He was a smart boy, and everybody thought he would turn out to be a brilliant sort of comet which leads a sort of flash-in-the-pan life, and then disappears in darkness. Instead of which he never turned out to be brilliant at all, developed slowly but surely, and instead of bein\u2019 a comet sort of a chap, matured very gradually, but stayed and kept a shinin\u2019 on in a mild sort of a manner all the time he lasted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He tried his hand at everythin\u2019 exceptin\u2019, as his folks said, \u201cwhat was useful.\u201d He couldn&#8217;t bear the name of trade, wouldn&#8217;t even study a regular profession, but went in for music and fine arts and literature, and all that sort of fancy thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At last, about eighteen, he made up his mind to be a painter, and as West as the great American painter in his early days, nothing would do but Dunlap must go to Europe and see West. This was \u201cgoin\u2019 West,\u201d but not as Greeley would have meant it. He went to London, and as soon as he got goin\u2019 to the theatres he got stage-struck, and determined to become an actor. He studied for the stage, and would have made his debut, had not an accident happened. Some stage hands got larkin\u2019 one day, and got throwin\u2019 missiles in fun at each other. One of these missiles hit Dunlap in the eye, and destroyed its sight as well as disfigured his optic. It was a severe blow to Dunlap, but he wisely concluded that there could be no show for a one-eyed actor, so he came back to America disgusted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The love for the theatre, however, was as strong in him as ever, and although he couldn&#8217;t be an actor he could be dramatist, and he became one. He wrote a two-act drama founded on a local incident, and called it \u201cThe Modest Soldier, or; Love in New York.\u201d He offered it to the old John Street Theatre management, Messrs. Hallam &amp; Henry, and contrary to the usual luck of place nowadays, it was read and accepted, but it was never acted. And for a while Dunlap couldn&#8217;t imagine the reason. It was always goin\u2019 to be produced and all that, but somehow it never was produced. Yet the reason for this was very simple, and every actor or dramatist who may read this chapter will at once understand it when I tell him. You see Henry, one of the managers of the theatre, was the leadin\u2019 man of the theatre, too, and considered himself \u201cthe star of the evenin\u2019.\u201d His wife, too, was an actress in the same company, and between \u2018em they thought \u2018emselves entitled to all the best parts in the pieces. Now Dunlap\u2019s piece was a tip-top affair, a first-class little drama, but the parts to be taken by Mr. and Mrs. Henry were not any stronger than several other male and female parts. There were chances in the play for the minor actors and actresses to get as much praise as the manager, and the manager&#8217;s wife. Now can&#8217;t you understand why the first piece of Dunlap\u2019s was never performed? Dunlap himself understood the reason why after a while, and showed his Jersey horse sense. He quietly withdrew this first piece on some pretext and offered a second. This second piece was half as good as the first, but the parts in it for Mr. and Mrs. Henry were the best parts in it. There was no delay in getting this piece produced, you bet. It was read, accepted, cast and played within two weeks. It was called \u201cThe Father\u201d and took pretty well. After that Dunlap always took care to have his actor or actress pleased with and ready to take a part or a piece before he wrote the piece or part. And from what little I know about the stage of to-day, I should advise all would-be dramatists to follow his example. Be sure of a horse before you buy a cart, or else you may have to pull the cart yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For some years Dunlap kept on writin\u2019 plays and livin\u2019 off of \u2018em; but, then he made the usual mistake of playwriters and playactors. He thought it would be a big thing to be a theatre manager. So he tried his hand at it. He experienced a thrill of delight at seeing his name placarded as \u201cmanager,\u201d but he felt a thrill of somethin\u2019 else, a few years after, when he became a bankrupt. All the money he had made writin\u2019 for the theatre had been lost managin\u2019 it. The theatre had busted him. \u201cThe old, old story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But he did then what has seldom or never been done by a theatre manager since, and which shows what an old-fashioned sort of a manager he must have been, to be sure. When he found he was busted, he didn&#8217;t \u201cskip by the light of the moon,\u201d he didn&#8217;t disappear, he didn&#8217;t put everythin\u2019 he had in somebody else&#8217;s name, he didn&#8217;t leave his company and his creditors to shift for \u2018emselves. No, the greenhorn, the old-fashioned simpleton absolutely gave up every dollar he had in the world to pay his debts, and went back to Amboy when a man, as poor as he left it when a boy, in fact, poorer. What would become of \u201cthe profession\u201d if there were many such men and managers as old William Dunlap now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Having had enough of the theatre for a while, he now fell back on what he had picked up about paintin\u2019, and executed several pictures. And then he dabbled in book makin\u2019, too, wrote a life of Cooke, the actor, and a novel bringin\u2019 in Cooke and Cooper and other actors, called \u201cThe Water Drinker,\u201d&#8211;a queer title for a novel about actors&#8211;and he wound up by writin\u2019 a book on the one great love of his life, a \u201cHistory of the American Theatre,\u201d which will always be valuable, and which will grow in value every year. His friends at one time got him a political position, but politics, like business, was not to his taste, and he soon got out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dunlapwilliam2.jpg?resize=200%2C314&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dunlapwilliam2.jpg?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dunlapwilliam2.jpg?resize=191%2C300&amp;ssl=1 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then his friends came to the front again, and got up a bumper of a complimentary benefit at the old Park Theatre. All the actors and actresses in New York at that time volunteered their services, and the veteran painter, author, and dramatist realized quite a large sum for those days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After this his friends, of whom he had plenty, and who all respected him, got him up a collection of paintin\u2019s, which were exhibited for his benefit, and this, too, paid handsomely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dunlapwilliam3.jpg?resize=579%2C491&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dunlapwilliam3.jpg?w=579&amp;ssl=1 579w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dunlapwilliam3.jpg?resize=300%2C254&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">William Dunlap, showing a picture to his parents (painted by Dunlap)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Altogether Dunlap couldn&#8217;t complain of life. He hadn&#8217;t made much money, he hadn&#8217;t written any one great everlastin\u2019 drama or book, nor painted any one picture which was famous, but he lived in good health and honor to a ripe old age, dyin\u2019 in New York about forty years ago, and left a record behind him of an honest, industrious life which should always make New York proud of his first successful American dramatist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Editor&#8217;s notes: In May, 1884, Irish actor-manager Dion Boucicault gave a talk at the Madison Square Theatre on &#8220;The Art of Acting,&#8221; taking questions from the audience. 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