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Show HENRY C. BARNABEE, COMEDIAN, IS DEAD Familiar 'to Thousands as "Sheriff of Nottingham' in De Koven's "Robin Hood." BOSTON, nee. 15. Henry Clay Hnrnfl. bee, familiar to t housands of pij ygoers '. as the "Sheriff of Not iw?ha in.'" in l e K oven 's comic opera, -'Robin Hnxl," died , at his home in the Jamaica Plain district today after a long illness. He uua S4 years of age. A number of years nco TlTiry Clav ! Barna bee was rtr1 of the most p-iputfl r operatic eoninrjia us on I he A irrerira it stage. Ills 'dff-r as an Ptitr-r I a i n-r spanned pra-t i ;.; all f his loin: M i--Ume, but his chief work wis in tir seventirs a:-- a Irndtng inemb r nf thr Boston Idfab. :i company which hatnc fairt'HiR all mwt litf country in the nro-duci.jon nro-duci.jon nf li:;ht op"ra. and il;: su'-crshor, (be Rnstfnians. wbich he Ic-lpr-d i' orc.miz. riarnftbc" HPi','i'f I t )tl. nui'terable rolr.. serious :-s uoll cmii--. and for two d"r Tides u fi t be cj ;i Ur Prir.d Ins limine was a 1 wave; on- if ,-"bead ,-"bead liners." Pa st 7'i cuy. or , 'nut i nurvl to cyor-'ise his f nn u i;i k j j -talents in vaudevil". At 77, h if- voire was v! ill -! roim ;tpd sonorous, and lif i.-rdlid tin.-- be-ly i , his life-Ion? abstinent-? fv-i )!.;)-it M r;-. J-:; rriM bf. u l o v ; a "n i injfgc. vt New Uanipshirp Ctrl. ;utd ,!) ;pa-y ovrr witli him, died on ' 'hrist ni;c-- da'., IViO. only -a fr-w wf.Hs n'I'T Wr- .ouple had celebrated their gold'ii icdd;nc. |