Show LOSS TOSS IN IX RICHARD MANSFIELD'S MANSFIELDS LD'S DEATH All ll America I is loser In tn the death 0 of Richard Mans Inns field He Ile ha had definitely enriched the nation He lie died Hed at tho the age of fifty years and had in that time ime left on the public a n deeper Impress than nn any other actor O our 1 nation has produced To 10 be exact he I is not b by birth a product of this nation He was born horn In to the I Interesting Interesting- little island of oC oll nd and was educated for the East Indian service of f Great Britain But he came car early to the United States and after sonic some trials at nt art cho chose e tho the stage tage for a n profession ilon Ills His first work was vas In comic opera In looking at the serious essa essays s 's sor of or h his s lai later r years that record seems incongruous And lel ht It 1 i k Fro th light p tH 1 d- d vance to more creative work and In inline lithe the past ti fifteen el years has stood alone as the greatest of oC American actors Ills theatrical life has hns been American Ills His home was here IIi His wife Beatrice Cam Cameron ron was nn an American woman an actress of oC sterling merit and a n. most honorable honorable honor honor- able character His labors have been In this country countr and here he has hns established himself elf for the close of ot a alife alife life Ufe every ery sincere effort of or which had been devoted to the American public and his art The Tho distinctive feature of oC Mansfields Mansfield's life has been his realization of oC natures nature's truth Beau Brummel seemed light and unimportant Yet he made of It an nn impressive spectacle the spectacle the progress s of an nn eighteenth century dandy from affluence to such poverty as few Cew have known And AndIn Andin Andin in every step of or tho the thoa a way there was truth No Xo clownishness clownish clownish- ne ness s no stage business designed ned to awake a n. laugh no deviating dc from the very verr thing thinA that curious character would have ha done So with his Baron in The Parisian Romance The exhausted old roue scientifically wicked was lived jed for Cor three hours on the stage with an exactness which erased all thought of the theatre theatre- So with his Richard his Woolsey his Ivan his Prince I Karl arl He presented living living liv liv- ing men and una the stage is tho the better for his service The public Is enriched h by his studious and faithful labors He will I not soon bo be forgotten Added to his serious view Ie of his profession the re resolve resolve resolve re- re solve to do the yel very best has gone tho the conduct of or a gentleman Careful of or his honor observant of oC the tho proprieties proprieties pro pro- Mr Mansfield won and held tho the respect of oC every everyone everyone everyone one who knew him All that stands to tho credit of oC tho the theatre which was so closely related to hi hlll life Iut But It stands too In his relation to the lofty Ideals of the nation and nna nil all America Is better hetter for tor the life and labors rs of Richard Mansfield |