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Show A Great Company A WRITER in the Now York Sun says John Howard Paine, the author of "Home, Sweet Home " when eighteen years of age, had played a most successful engagement in Now York; then went to Boston and by the force of his genius played a most successful engagement engage-ment there for a long Jlme. But the queer part 1 k of it is that his support was Mrs. Poo, the mother Ww of Eidgar Allen Poe. As that was In 1809, young Mm Mr. Edgar Allen Poe could have been hut a baby. HI- The account says that Paine's flrst appearance in Boston was a gala night. On the third night of I ft his engagement, Friday, April 7, 1809, the play was l "Romeo and Juliet," with the young star as Ro- MU meo and Mrs. Poe as Juliet. On April 10th, "Bar- Ibara Rosa" was presented, with Paine as Selim and Mrs. Poe as Irene. On April 15th, "Tancred and Seglsmunda" held the boards, Paine playing Tancred and Mrs. Poe Seglsmunda. On April 17th, at his benefit, Paine gained more applause in his rendition of Hamlet. Mrs. Poe was Ophelia and Mr. Poe essayed the role of Laertes. That brings back to us some famous names. In those days theatres were not popular with the h; staid and pious people of the east, but it seems Hi this wonderful pair, the author of "Home, Sweet H, Home," and the mother of the author of "The v Raven" and "The Bells," made a triumphant sue- H cess. |