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Title: Life and art of Richard Mansfield : with selections from his letters
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Winter, William, 1836-1917
Subjects: Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907
Publisher: New York : Moffat, Yard and company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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men, having the lank figureand thin visage of Don Quixote,, and also his kindheart, and he was a remarkably clever actor; sothat the task of filling his place might well havediscomfited a novice. Other and more seriousreverses followed. As soon as his mother becameaware of his theatrical proceedings she stopped hisallowance, and he was reduced to such poverty thathe had to resort to the expedient of givingentertainments at private houses, as an incidentto festive social occasions. That experience ofhardship was afterward skilfully utilized by him, inhis touching play of Monsieur, the leading char-acter in which, Andre de Jardot, is a young musi-cian, of fine talents and elegant manners, impov-erished and starving, in New York. Mansfieldnearly starved, in reality, in London, for, strangeto say, he could not obtain regular employment,and,—which is not strange,—he sedulously kept fromhis acquaintances all knowledge of his destitution.A friend of his, Mr. William Dixon, a talented and
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RICHARD MANSFIELD (About 1877)

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