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Beerbohm Tree in America
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2010
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Even allowing for the exaggeration implicit in obituaries as such, this American description of a nineteenth-century English actor seems excessive. Yet Beerbohm Tree was not primarily an actor at all, certainly not (as some of his contemporaries would have put it) a “professional.” An unusually diverting mixture of jack-in-the-box and Jack-of-all-trades, his lack of conspicuous, all-consuming dedication to the principles of the profession he had chosen for himself, coupled with his obvious delight in its shallower aspects (spectacle, makeup, effects), gained him admiration from the audience at large and aroused suspicion among his fellow artists.
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1 The New York Dramatic Mirror, July 14, 1917.
2 Graham, Joe, An Old Stock-Actor's Memories (London, 1930), p. 210.Google Scholar
3 Towse, John Ranken, Sixty Years of the Theater. An Old Critic's Memories (New York, 1916), p. 438.Google Scholar
4 “Gallery of Players” from the Illustrated American, No. 5, ed. Marwell Hall (New York, 1895), p. 26.
5 Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art, ed. Max Beerbohm (New York, c. 1920), pp. 91–92.
6 Towse, p. 438.
7 Ibid., p. 439.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid., pp. 443–444.
10 Gallery of Players from the Illustrated American, No. 5, p. 26.
11 Towse, p. 444.
12 Ibid., p. 445.
13 Ibid., pp. 440–442.
14 Ibid., pp. 446–447.
15 “An Open Letter to An American Friend,” contributed to the Fortnightly Review shortly after Tree's death and quoted in Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art, p. 258.
16 The New York Dramatic Mirror, January 22, 1916.
17 Ibid., January 1, 1916.
18 Ibid., January 15, 1916.
19 Ibid., February 5, 1916.
20 Ibid., February 19, 1916.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid., April 15, 1916.
23 Ibid., March 25, 1916.
24 Ibid., April 15, 1916.
25 Ibid., April 29, 1916.
26 Ibid., April 22, 1916.
27 Ibid.
28 Church and Stage (“Published by and devoted to the work of the Actors' Church Alliance of America”), July-October, 1916, Vol. II, Nos. 9 and 10.
29 The New York Dramatic Mirror, April 29, 1916.
30 Ibid., May 6, 1916.
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid., May 13, 1916.
33 Ibid.
34 Ibid.
35 “Gallery of Players” from the Illustrated American, No. 5, p. 26.
36 The New York Dramatic Mirror, June 3, 1916.
37 Ibid.
38 Quoted in The New York Dramatic Mirror, May 27, 1916.
39 Ibid.
40 Ibid., June 10, 1916.
41 Quoted in Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art, pp. 162–163.
42 Quoted in Pearson, Hesketh, Beerbohm Tree. His Life and Laughter (New York, 1956), p. 231.Google Scholar
43 The New York Dramatic Mirror, June 17, 1916.
44 Ibid.
45 Ibid., June 24, 1916.
46 Ibid., June 17,1916.
47 Pearson, p. 228.
48 Quoted by Pearson, pp. 227–228.
49 “Not Bad for a Young Country” (September 8) and “Where All the World's Stage” (September 9), both reproduced in Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art, p. 279 and pp. 284 ff.
50 The New York Dramatic Mirror, October 21, 1916.
51 Ibid., October 28, 1916.
52 Ibid., November 11, 1916.
53 Ibid., December 16, 1916.
54 Ibid., January 20, 1917.
55 Ibid.
56 Ibid., February 10, 1917.
57 Ibid., February 17, 1917.
58 All reprinted in The New York Dramatic Mirror, April 21, 1917.
59 Ibid.
60 Ibid., July 14, 1917.