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Show Poos John M'Cullough is fast reaching the last scene in "the drama of lifer although al-though some physicians think he may entirely recover andregain his reason, j The range of his dramatic ability was not wide, but within that range he made himself him-self the first. He was rather of the old school of acting, and the les-itimate suc cessor of Keah and Forrest, and never "possessed that facile and accomplished manner .which is so characteristic of Booth and of Irving. In fact, he was powerful rather than anything else, and it was in such pieces as "Virginius" that his power was shown to best advantage. His whole nature seemed to be Roman rather than Greek, and this tells it all. We speak of him as of the past, because the probabilities are that he will never be himself again, and his greatness was in the post. . ' |