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Title: The life and art of Edwin Booth and his contemporaries
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929, comp Hutton, Laurence, 1843-1904
Subjects: Actors Actors
Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Toole told Dickens the story— Blessher, he said, she deserved the whole bird ! George Fawcett Rowe, in the New York WorldtMarch 7, 1886. MR. LESTER WALLACK. The Mr. Lester of the long ago Is prince of light comedians even now. Albeit years will do what they are bid, Time writes no wrinkle —that may not be hid. And so there still survive the handsome face, The voice of music and the step of grace, The play of wit; the gesture eloquent, The charm of blended mirth and sentiment; The speech refined, the easy elegance, The fine resource, the swift intelligence,— All these remain, as salient as of old, And long in stage tradition will be told. Though Percy Ardent now is lost to sight, And Harry Dornton is forgotten quite, Those youthful heroes live and breathe to-day In Captain Absolute and Elliott Gray. Never can lag superfluous on the stage This famous son of honored lineage. Long be the day when Time his debt shall claim, And Lester Wallack leave to lasting fame. William L. Keese.
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LESTER WALLACKAs the Prince of Wales in Henry IV. MR. LESTER WALLACK. It is seldom that an actor can look back to such adramatic lineage as that of John Lester Wallack.On the maternal side he would naturally inherit thesensitive, sprightly temperament, the romantic fancy,the tender heart and the personal elegance and dashthat are characteristic of the Celtic nature at its best.In the grandson of Irish Johnston these qualitieswould be expected ; and those who know Mr. Wal-lack, whether as actor or man, are aware that hepossesses them. On the paternal side his inheritancewas even richer in the attributes that constitute asturdy and brilliant character, a commanding mind,and a noble person. His father was, assuredly, agreat actor, in both comedy and tragedy, but espe-cially in comedy. His paternal grandfather, Wil-liam Wallack, was distinguished on the stage, bothas a singer and a comedian (his impersonation of theEnglish sailor was famous, and the popular nauticalsong entitled, u Bound

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