| Show AS THE WORLD RE DEATH OF DU sudden passing of the well known traveler and explorer news from st petersburg brings the announcement of the sudden death of paul du chaillou the well known at af rican traveler and explorer he ile derived his love of travel from bis his fath er who was a trader on the west coast of africa with whom be he went there several times after completing his education in this country of which 4 ri PAUL W he was a native having been born in new orleans be he made many trips to the interior of africa and subsequent bub sequent ly traveled much in sweden norway I 1 lapland and finland while he was an entertaining lecturer and author enthusiastic la in his love of ot travel and adventure and undoubtedly made val bable collections of flora and fauna some of them previously unknown to naturalists he was not generally ger trally regarded as a scientist of high attain ments and indeed many of his theor les and some of his statements have been flatly questioned in the same dl di but of his popularity in the lecture room and especially in bis his and of his enthusiasm as travel er and explorer there can be no doubt GREAT COMEDIAN IS DEAD stuart robson a loss regretted by all who knew him stuart robson who died last week 4 at new york ranked as one of the leading comedians of the american stage he was born in baltimore md on march 4 1836 ills first ap bearance pe arance on the stage was at the bal dal museum on jan 5 1862 1852 ahe the play was uncle tom toms s cabin and robson then 16 years old had a minor part he ile had a bad case ot stage fright that nearly ended his ca reer on the night ft it began mr rob i son s first pronounced success was as capt crosstree in the burlesque black eyed susan in which he first appeared in 1870 in 1877 stuart robson and william H crane made their famous starring partnership and played in revivals ot of A comedy of errors merry wives of windsor and other shakespearean comedies finally faking up the hen rietta which became an nary success and made profits of 1 STUART ROUSON the robson crane partner ship lasted until 1889 when it was dis solved mr robson was married in 1894 to may waldon he ile had a summer home at highlands N J where two years ago his entire company were hia his guests during the summer rehearsal rehearsals of the revival of the henrietta mr robson was noted among theat cical people for his kindness and con sider atlon to the members of his corn com pany |
