| Show IX IN n To Wr Mr James foil Doel of Stonehouse e ePI PI Plymouth Joath belongs the proud of being the tbt oldest actor In I Iland ling land Mr fool Doe who rece recently Ur tel ed Ids hll birthday Ir II also the possessor of at a perennial youthful n neN and freshness which render him the marvel ot of an all his I With hi his slim lIm and almost boyish bolh fir hg UN hi his keen and till lUll bright ht glance and aud the air ot of wonderful alertness which might rather belong to a man halt hi his years reans It is II to rall realise that one s looking at the contemporary of Edmund Keen Kan ol of phel and Macready Mr Doel m made his hll first appearance In 10 0 years ea ago Its It ha has played many parts paJU In b his day clay but his hll torte forte was comedy There nare are Rrt yet veteran playgoers who will t tell you with Mum ilium of hili ble excellent Pleat Gravedigger In Hamlet ot of the immense of nf his Mrs the artistic subtlety ot of hi his aul Pry One OM of Ute the proudest of the old mans man memorIes I is the recollection tion of Gobbo to K an You L 1 n sly I I the Ihl gleat tt to III see till the rod or of Mr Does Idolatry I HII Ile eye eyl flashed hi his lace grows young OUn again II as he the marvelous err erH of that giant Iut of nature whose acting was 1111 so 0 absolutely natural that It seamed med not alb U the It att event of alt Ir Duels Duell later yeara journey to London In 1896 to Join oln In th tl at the Lyceum which celebrated the ninetieth birthday of his veteran Mr Mrs Kle Keeley 1111 oat Js JI It t Is ly Iy Ukel likely that U the old Gentleman win will ale at tempt the tUU ox at any 11 moro more lOll long Journey but no ont lollen UI the thiat n sal events ot the liar flay more keenly and no one is II of the Q t that ba t actors teton fir At this end of at the than cN actor who bo parka beyond aU all J beet bait it able aa to ap apps rt elate the t then en and now new |
