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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1914
Page
8
Nat Goodwin presents his own account in a Sunday feature signaling a rare memoir style. The piece highlights his stage career and personal reflections as a premier actor and manager of nineteenth century American theatre.
Actor Nat C Goodwin presents a one man show in 1914 reflecting on his career and industry experience. The piece appears as creative theater prose outlining personal anecdotes and performance memories with a humorous and reflective tone.
A tribute recalling Maurice Barrymore, Joseph Jefferson, and Frank Mayo. The memoir praises Barrymore’s wit, courage, and gentleness, noting his untimely fate and his three children. It also honors Jefferson’s masterful technique and restraint, and recounts watching performances during an all star Rivals cast tour with Julia Marlowe and others.
The excerpt prints Nat Goodwin’s claim of guilt while defending his casual, conflicting view of art. He reflects on his London phase, critics, and Sheridan’s comedy, noting how others’ reverence contrasted with his own view of performance as commerce. He contends he may plead guilty yet remains outspoken about his 39 years in theater.
The passage traces Joseph Jefferson’s rise from a fair actor to a celebrated Rip Van Winkle star. It notes his London and Australia work, revisions of Rip Van Winkle, and long runs with The Rivals Caleb Plummer and Dr Pangloss. It contrasts his fame with peers like Burke Burton and Booth, praising his impact on the stage.
In early 1880s letters the author recalls Charles Hoyt, a satirical playwright with keen character insight. Hoyt’s sharp humor and quarrelsome temper drew both admiration and trouble, including a dramatic public feud and a fatalistic joke about his own marriage. His partner Charles Thomas died young in Phoenix.
The narrator recounts early career moves in New York theatre from a brief stint at Niblo's Garden under Thorne and Eddy to a high salary at Tony Pastor's variety theatre, then shifts to legitimate stage at the Fourteenth Street Theatre as Captain Crosstree in Black-eyed Susan. He recalls meeting Minnie Palmer and returning to the Howard Atheneum with a joint salary of 750 a week after a prior 50 a week start.
Minnie and I planned to stay together in vaudeville but mothers vetoed it. In 1876 I starred in Rice and Goodwin's Evangeline as Captain Dietrich with James Moffit and Lizzie Webster among the cast. A friendship with Eliza Weathersby grew into love and we married June 24, 1877 in New Rochelle, New York.
In next Sunday's Post Mr Goodwin will write of his life with his first wife and answer accusations of wanton neglect. He will recall the jolly days of Harrigan and Hart and other big figures of the stage.
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