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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I passed Harry Jarrett recently on Broadway, and I couldn’t help thinkin\u2019 of a little side issue in his career as a manager some twenty-five years, since which was rather interestin\u2019 in itself, and which serves to illustrate pretty forcibly the professional jealousies of actors and actresses among \u2018emselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 About a quarter of a century ago Harry Jarrett took it into his head to startle the English playgoers and put money into his own pocket, by taking over to London an \u201cAmerican\u201d company, all of \u2018em first class artists, to show the Covent Garden or Drury Lane audiences what Yankee actin\u2019 was. So, as usual, he made a big fuss and hullabaloo in the papers, and really his company was somethin\u2019 to brag of. He engaged Mark Smith and Harry Perry, Joe Jefferson, John E. Owens and George Jordan, Lizzie Weston (afterward Davenport-Matthews) and Avonia Jones, the daughter of George Jones, the Count Johannes. Every one of these was an \u201cartist,\u201d a representative American actor or actress, and Jarrett and the country were quite proud of \u2018em. But, unfortunately, they were all proud of \u2018emselves, too proud by half, and didn’t want to give each other a show\u2013each wanted to have the show all to himself or herself\u2013and to tell the truth, the men were worse in this respect than the women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Harry Perry thought he was several frills better than George Jordan, Joe Jefferson ranked himself as a much \u201chigh\u201d-er or \u201clow\u201d-er comedian than Owens, Mark Smith felt he was really the cleverest of the lot, and Lizzie Weston said she \u201ccould act all around\u201d Avonia Jones. Every man in the company asserted his right to be \u201cleadin\u2019 man,\u201d every woman was bound to be \u201cleadin\u2019 lady.\u201d There was nobody to take the minor roles. Everybody was all Hamlet; nobody would play King or Ghost, and there would have to be two or three Ophelias. So Jarrett was driven to despair. He had an easy goin\u2019 way with him, and tried to get out of the scrape by promisin\u2019 everybody in secret,\u00a0 \u201cin the strictest confidence,\u201d the leadin\u2019 parts when they should reach England. But they never reached England, as, before they started, they all found out that the manager had said the same things to each one of \u2018em and promised \u2018em the same parts; so the scheme fell through. The London Lyceum had been positively engaged for the first appearance of this great American galaxy of artists, but the contract turned out to be n. g. All that Jarrett made out of the operation was a lot of ill-will from a lot of actors, takin\u2019 a lot of trouble for nothin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harry Jarrett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      When Hamilton, Johnson and Wheelock ran the Grand Opera House here in New York together there was the same trouble. There wasn’t a part worth playin\u2019 in any piece they cast but two, and sometimes three of the three wanted to play it. The result generally was that none of the three would play the parts they should have taken, but they were handed over to actors who were really inferior to any of the three managers. Such is life on the stage, at least. And off of it, sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I mentioned Lizzie Weston-Davenport-Matthews just now. She was one of the prettiest, pertest and most popular of actresses in her time, and caused no end of trouble among the actors, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lizzie Weston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As everybody knows, she left Dolly Davenport one Saturday night and married Charles Matthews in Jersey the next Monday. But perhaps very few remember a street scene that came out of this affair right in front of the New York Hotel. Matthews had foolishly said that Davenport had sold him his wife, and Dolly Davenport took him to task for sayin\u2019 this with a whip, with which he lathered Matthews soundly, to the great enjoyment of a number of street boys and spectators. Dolly whipped his man with a will, and Matthews stood and took the whippin\u2019. He couldn’t do much else, as Davenport was by far the younger and stronger man; besides, he was the injured party\u2013that is, if bein\u2019 deserted by a wife who didn’t care anythin\u2019 about her husband is really an injury, which I am inclined to doubt, and to think it is what the parson’s call \u201ca blessing in disguise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adolphus “Dolly” Davenport (Hoyt)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      By the by, mentioning parsons brings to my mind that Tony Pastor made his first public appearance in a church. This is a fact. It was the old Day Street Church, not far from Greenwich street, where Tony was born. It was at a temperance meetin\u2019, too, and little Tony sang a temperance song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Tony was then only eight years of age, and didn’t really know the difference between whiskey and water. Then after the cold water song Tony gave the audience a comic duet, his partner bein\u2019 Chris Woodruff, then a little New York street boy, who afterward became State Senator. To tell the truth, Woodruff then sang about as well as Tony, and neither of \u2018em had the slightest idea what they were singin\u2019   about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Tony has always kept his head level and his made drink his servant and not his master. In which respect he had the best of a man who once was the most popular fellow in or out of the theatrical profession, before Tony’s time, in the city of New York. I mean Tom Flynn, the favorite of the Old Chatham and Bowery Theatres. Tom Flynn was the best hearted fellow in the world, and old New York owed to him two of its best actors and one of its very best managers. He introduced Robert Macaire Brown to the New York public and F. S. Williams. He also had a hand in bringin\u2019 Billy Mitchell, of the old Olympic, to this country. That was glory enough for one man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Tom was a sterlin\u2019 actor, too, and could play Dick Dowlas in the \u201cHeir-at-Law\u201d and Jack Absolute in the \u201cRivals\u201d as they haven’t been played since. He knew everythin\u2019, too, that was worth knowing about stage management, and produced some tip-top pieces. But he loved his glass, and his glass, alas! and another glass to follow it, in which point he closely resembled his most intimate friend, the great Booth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The elder Booth thought the world and all of Tom Flynn, and Tom was about the only man who could manage him in his tantrums. When Tom was sober and Booth was drunk, which was pretty often, or Booth happened to be sober and Tom was drunk, which was very, very seldom, the boys styled it \u201chigh and low Jack;\u201d but when Tom Flynn and Junius Brutus Booth both got drunk togethe, which was not uncommon, then it was \u201cthe game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Tom Flynn only had one wife, in which he differed all together from Tom Hamblin, who had four wives\u2013at four different times, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Mrs. Hamblin No. 1 was Miss Elizabeth Blanchard, daughter of old Blanchard, the great London comedian. She came with Hamblin to this country and used to be a great favorite at the Park and the Old Bowery. The boys used to clamor for her as Mrs. Haller in \u201cThe Stranger.\u201d \u201cWhy, she makes yer weep till yer thinks you must have a fire bucket inside of yer,\u201d was the classic commentary passed of her actin\u2019 in this part by a Bowery boy. She had two children by Hamblin, but didn’t get along with him very well, and got divorced. Then she married a young fellow by the name of Charles, and tried to make an actor out of him. And as Mrs. Charles she was quite a favorite down South, at New Orleans and elsewhere. I think she was the mother of a Miss Charles, who afterward married a wealthy Southerner by the name of Brinckley. This Brinckley afterward denied his marriage, but the plucky Miss Charles proved it legally, and beat him in the courts of this State. This affair is still remembered as the Brinckley divorce case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Mrs. Hamblin No. 2 was a pretty woman, a Mrs. Naomi Vincent, who died. Mrs. Hamblin No. 3 was a quite well-known dramatic authoress, Miss Medina who \u201cadapted\u201d several of Bulwer\u2019s great novels. Mrs. Hamblin 4th, and last, was the finest of the lot, Mrs. Shaw, New York’s pet actress for a while. She was a right smart woman and had been originally married to a Dr. Shaw, from whom she got a divorce. She was engaged several seasons at the Park Theatre, then she went to the Bowery, and as a \u201cb\u2019hoy\u201d remarked \u201cwas \u2018boss\u2019 at them both.\u201d She used to \u201cboss\u201d Hamblin for some time before Mrs. H. No. 3 died, and when the bills changed from Mrs. Shaw to Mrs. Hamblin the change surprised nobody at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Tom Hamblin was always very polite to women, and understood \u2018em completely. He never argued with \u2018em, considered it a perfect waste of time and temper, always pretended to care a great deal for \u2018em, but didn’t really care a straw about \u2018em, except when he was with \u2018em. \u201cOut of sight, out of mind,\u201d applied completely to women and Tom Hamblin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      And next to women, somewhat strange to say, Tom Hamblin had a sort of warm, social likin\u2019 for clergymen\u2013one of his most intimate friends bein\u2019 a well-known Catholic priest\u2013now although ministers are supposed to be one extreme and actors another extreme, it is a case in which \u201cextremes meet;\u201d for a great many actors have become ministers and some ministers have become actors, and the relations between what they call \u201cthe church and the stage\u201d have been pretty intimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      There was T. P. Adams, he was an actor first, then he turned lecturer, then he turned preacher\u2013orthodox preacher at first, and at last wound up by turnin\u2019 Mormon apostle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He founded a Mormon colony of about seven hundred people at Beaver Island, in Lake Michigan, and for years was grand high cockalorum of the place. N. B. Clarke was intended for the ministry, but liked stage better than the pulpit. He always had a great respect for the \u201cwhite neckties,\u201d however, and would never suffer \u2018em to be ridiculed on the stage. An actor, a mighty poor actor, too, called Weeks, (of whom it was said that his name was a misnomer, as he was never able to get a \u201cweek’s\u201d engagement at any theatre), after hangin\u2019 onto the profession till there was no more \u201ccling\u201d in him, turned \u201crevivalist\u201d and \u201cgospel preacher.\u201d This was in 1858, when there was a big \u201cboom\u201d in \u201crevivals.\u201d As \u201cgospel preacher,\u201d he pitched into the theatres most unmercifully, and said they were \u201cthe gateways to hell\u201d and \u201cthe devil’s delight.\u201d The \u201cawakened sinners\u201d in his congregation \u201cgroaned\u201d at this, but groanin\u2019 and rollin\u2019 up the eyes are not very \u201cfillin\u2019\u201d to a hungry man with a family to support, and in a little while Weeks found himself in danger of starvin\u2019 to death\u2013he and his old mother and two young sisters. The church people couldn’t do anythin\u2019 for him, so he came back to the stage again, and got somehow or other a bare livin\u2019. Then when he had \u201ctided things\u201d over, he came out and blackguarded the theatres once more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Spencer Cone, the father, I believe, of Kate Claxton, the actress was an actor first and then a clergyman, and Charles Booth Parsons was, like his name, part minister and part actor. He did better as actor than as minister, though, and after leavin\u2019 the theatre for the church, gave up the church for the theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Another chap that tried actor and preacher both, as well as a lot of other things, was W. W.  Pratt, not the great American traveler, but the Great American try everythin\u2019-er. This W. W. Pratt was in his time actor, agent, manager, author, painter, musician, temperance lecturer and preacher. As he himself used to say \u201che had tried a different trade every day in the week for two and two for Sunday.\u201d And he failed in \u2018em all. The only thing that remains of him now is a play he wrote or adapted, and called \u201cTen Nights in a Barroom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

       He had some dry wit about him, and once when he had been compelled to leave the stage for the pulpit, and the congregation of his church did not seem to appreciate him, he gave it to \u2018em one Sunday from the text, \u201cthe ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib, but my people do not know me.\u201d But they did \u201cknow\u201d him pretty thoroughly before he got done with that sermon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But the funniest fact on this subject is that the man in this country to whom the theatrical people are, perhaps, more indebted than any other, in the way of givin\u2019 them places to act in\u2013at least the man who, in his time, put up more theaters than any other man livin\u2019–was first a minister\u2013at any rate, studied for the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      His name was Potter\u2013John S. Potter\u2013and he came of a Quaker family, though his mother had turned Methodist. But he was always fond of two things\u2013readin\u2019 newspapers and seein\u2019 plays. He didn’t care much about books, but he seized hold of a newspaper like a hungry hyena seizes hold of a fat gazelle; and as for theatres, he dreamed by day and stole out to see \u2018em at nights. He played the \u201cnight school\u201d dodge on his mother for awhile, and while he was lookin\u2019 at the tragedies or comedies, the old lady thought he was gettin\u2019 instruction in arithmetic and geography. But one night he was seen enterin\u2019 a theater by one of his mother’s set of old fogies, and there was no more night school for John S. Potter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      So he up and told the old lady that he was goin\u2019 to be an actor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Imagine a shoutin\u2019 Methodist of Quaker stock bein\u2019 told her only son was goin\u2019 to be a play-actor. Horrified beyond expression, the old lady consulted her friends, and the boy was sent to a theological seminary where they turned out parsons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But he turned himself out of the seminary, started out as an actor, then took to managin\u2019 theatres and then to buildin\u2019 them. He became the boss theatre builder of the United States of America. He traveled everywhere, and put up theaters wherever he traveled. He put up theatres in California, Oregon, Mississippi, Iowa, Ohio, New York, Arkansas and Vancouver\u2019s Island. Whenever he couldn’t do anythin\u2019 else he would turn a barn or a warehouse into a \u201ctemple of the drama.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He was a good man, though, and a good fellow, and was more in his natural element and fulfilled his \u201cmanifest destiny\u201d better as a first-class theater builder than a fourth-class sermon maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Editor’s notes: “T. P. Adams” correct name was George Jones Adams<\/a>, and his religious career was far stranger than the above column indicates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten Nights In a Barroom<\/em> was originally a novel by Timothy Shay Arthur. It was first adapted for the stage by William W. Pratt, and has subsequently been filmed over a half-dozen times.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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