Show HEREDITARY PROFESSION I Many Families That Have Followed the Stage for Generations In Jn no other line of human endeavor are so many man men and women born into the business as in the theater In statecraft we have had the older as we have the younger Gladstone the young younger y ung unger er and the older Pitt the younger and the older Choate and others Law has given us uc examples of the working out of the law of heredity and environment in the formation in the son of capacity for the work that has distinguished his father Art has had its two Burne Joneses and other Illustrious names but none of these professions or all of them can show the astonishingly large number of cases in which V the call of the stage has been answered by dif different different different ferent generations in the samo same family The stage has a a people all its own It has been so from the beginning Edmund Kean that fiery little tra tragedian n at whom London laughed first and yielded afterward had a son Charles Kean who was wasa V a fine tIne actor The two often played pl together in tragic moments when they were on the stage st ge together the elder was so un unaffected unaffected unaffected affected by the theory that an actor must feel what he portrays that as he looked upon the countless wet eyes eros e os in inthe inthe Inthe the audience he lie would whisper to his hisson hisson hisson son Charlie my boy we are doing the trick V V Joseph Jeffersons boys have taken up their fathers lathers work This year Thomas Jefferson had a fairly successful season run to literary work Maxine Elliotts sister Gertrude Elliott has not only much of her sisters beauty but consid considerable considerable erable enable of her acting powers She is the wife of Forbes Robertson the English and acts with him Julia Dean V a young actress who has won high praise in New York this win winter winter winter ter has inherited her ability from her mother who bore the same name and who was one of the foremost actresses on the American stage stag a quarter quart r of a century ago There are almost countless examples of communion of tastes in acting be between between between tween husband and wives and it Is only natural that their talents should descend to their children Mr and an Mrs Bancroft Mr and Mrs Kendal Kenda James K Hackett and his wife Mary Mannering E H Sothern and nd his wife Virginia Harned Louis Mann lann and his wife wile Clara Lipman Tim Murphy and amid his wife Dorothy Sher Sherrod Sherrod Sherrod rod are only a few of them Mr Sothern comes naturally by his lis great talents His father was as the fa famous famous a amous actor who created Lord Dun dreary and other stage types James K Hacketts father played pla ed a Falstaff by which all aU succeeding on the stage st ge of this country have been graded Jap Wheelock who became a star this season in George Ades Just Out of College inherits his love loe for the time stage and much of his ability V from front his father lather who was an actor Richard Mansfields mother was a mu musician musician musician and Mr Mansfield has come by much of her talent for music S One of the most famous stage as Bob Acres and old Rip Rio The Drews Drews I have been distinguished on n the Ameri Amer American AmerIcan can stage since the first The marriage marrage of the brilliant Georgia Drew to the equally brilliant Maurice Barrymore gave us those three players Ethel Lionel and Joan Jomn Barrymore who pos possess possess possess sess more ability than any other three i members of any one ne family now before the footlights ts The greatest actor the American stage has seen Edwin Booth had an actor for a father This father never took Edwins acting seriously He let the boy dress him for the stage V and car carried carried ried vied him about the country with him but often warned him against adopting the stage as a profession John Wilkes Booth who killed President Lincoln was Edwins brother and a good actor His middle name Wilkes was that of a distinguished family of actors one member of which is still on the Ameri Amen American American can stage This is Ernest Wilkes In light form of entertainment we have the Cohan family Jerry Cohan the father is an actor of considerable ability He and his wife play in the company of their talented son George The sister of George Cohan has nas been teen wonderfully successful in vaudeville although she used to be a member of her brothers comedy companies Her Hen husband is Fred Niblo a monologist Mrs George Cohan whose stage name is Ethel Levy Ley also is clever V VIn In vaudeville there is another entire family the that has had suc sue success success v vEleanor cess V Eleanor Robson who wanted to be an artist went upon the stage stag so that sn might be near her n ni ther ither Mrs Madge Carr Cam Cook who as t i character actress did splendid work in Mrs Wiggs of or orthe the Cabbage Patch Henry Irvings son Laurence Irving is a clever actor as is John Hares Haras son Henry E Dix Dixey Dixey Dixey ey called by many the best character actor on the American stage has bas it a daughter Mabel Dixey in whom are found many of the fine acting abilities of her father This season she has lias been playing in Texas a western play that is not half V so wild as its Us name V Lillian Russells daughter Dorothy Russell has played with considerable success in vaudeville She has a good voice and her mothers dra dramatic dramatic dramatic matic instinct Sarah son Maurice Bernhardt Beruhardt has acted a little and has ability though his Inclinations V lies lie in America is that of the ers William Villiam Mestayer Billy as he ht was universally called was the lead baa leading leading baaing ing comedian in many a strong com coni company pany His brother was a good actor and his nephew Harry Mestayer Iesta er is h isnow Isnow now a leading juvenile Harry Mesta Iesta Mestayer yer yen became the husband of Victory Victors Victor Bateman a clever leading woman oman o |