Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-01-24 | Page 2 | Ezra Kendall Joins the Great Majority

Ip EZRA KENDALL JOINS jl THE GREAT MAJORITY I 1 J . ' Well-Known Comedian Dies of 1 Apoplexy at a Sanitarium '. in Indiana, i j .s CLEVELAND. O., Jan. 23. Ezra Kcn- 11 dall, comccHnn. died of apoplexy today In a sanitarium at Martinsville, Ind. Tho first news of his death received by friends outsldo tho Immediate family was when J ' tho body was brought to Cleveland to- ' ' night. Mr. Kendall closed hlr. season In I "The Vinegar Buyer" at Seattle throe ' - weeks ago because of 111 health. It com- ) pletcd his twenty-ninth season on the , 'stage. For yoars ho was a monologlst i of renown. He Is survived by a widow and ' six children. ! ' Ezra Kendall has caused moro people to forgot the blues, has mado more pco-' pco-' plo laugh, has mado more people happy than perhaps any actor who has been i , upon tho stngo In lator years. Born on a farm In Allcuhonv county, New ork. Ill in ISGI, obtaining an education In tho I county schools and later as a printer In I a newspaper offlco at Olean, N. 1.. he I. graduated Into the city room of the Now I . 'York Herald as a reporter. He re- I ' mained with the Herald for some tlmo I ' and then returned to his first love, tho I Olean Times. I Ho always had a liking for the stage, I and when but 20 yoars of ago ho nban- I' doned newspaper work and made his ap pearance as a professional actor at Ellz-i Ellz-i abcth, N. J., In Uio farce, "That Rascal Pat." This was on St. Patrick's day, ! 1SS0. After that ho supported Lillian Cloves-Clark Cloves-Clark In "Only a Farmer's Daughter. I receiving at that time tho munificent sal- ' . nry of S4 a week and expenses. But ho , ' liked tho stage and stuck to it. He t mado Ills first hit in "Wonted, a Part ner." at Rankin's Third Avenuo theater. New Yorlc. after which ho wrote and produced "We, Us &. Co.." becoming a I star. .For eleven yonrs ho starred In his farce, "A Pair of Kids," and then in . "The Vinegar Buyer." It was in this ' play that he was last seen in Salt L3ke. "The Land of Dollars" ho played during tho season of 1007-8. Then he again ' i starred in "Tho Vinegar Buyer."