A double Index—personal as well as local—makes the book easily available for reference; and it will lend itself readily to extra illustration. It is intended to instruct as well as to entertain.
Laurence Hutton.
The Players, 1890.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
| PAGE | |
| Junius Brutus Booth | [Frontispiece] |
| G. W. P. Custis | [9] |
| Edwin Forrest | [11] |
| John McCullough | [15] |
| Major André | [21] |
| J. H. Hackett | [27] |
| Frank Mayo as Davy Crockett | [33] |
| William J. Florence as Bardwell Slote | [37] |
| John T. Raymond | [41] |
| Neil Burgess as the Widow Bedott | [45] |
| F. S. Chanfrau as Mose | [49] |
| Epes Sargent | [55] |
| Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie | [61] |
| Edgar Fawcett | [73] |
| Brander Matthews | [77] |
| Bronson Howard | [81] |
| Charles Dibdin as Mungo | [91] |
| Ira Aldridge as Othello | [95] |
| Old Play-bill | [97] |
| Andrew Jackson Allen | [103] |
| Barney Williams in Dandy Jim | [105] |
| Ralph Keeler | [107] |
| P. T. Barnum | [109] |
| John B. Gough | [113] |
| Thomas D. Rice as Jim Crow | [116] |
| Thomas D. Rice | [118] |
| James Roberts | [120] |
| George Washington Dixon | [121] |
| Mr. Dixon as Zip Coon | [123] |
| Daniel Emmett | [125] |
| Charles White | [127] |
| Edwin P. Christy | [131] |
| George Christy | [133] |
| George Swayne Buckley | [137] |
| Eph Horn | [139] |
| Jerry Bryant | [140] |
| Nelse Seymour | [140] |
| Dan Bryant | [141] |
| Stephen C. Foster | [143] |
| Mrs. Hallam (Mrs. Douglas) | [156] |
| Mark Smith as Mrs. Normer | [159] |
| William Mitchell as Richard Number Three | [161] |
| John Brougham and Georgiana Hodson in Pocahontas | [163] |
| Harry Beckett as the Widow Twankey, in Aladdin | [167] |
| James Lewis as Syntax, in Cinderella at School | [171] |
| George L. Fox as Hamlet | [175] |
| Lydia Thompson as Sindbad | [179] |
| William H. Crane as Le Blanc, in Evangeline | [183] |
| Stuart Robson as Captain Crosstree | [186] |
| Harry Hunter as the Lone Fisherman | [189] |
| Francis Wilson in the Oolah | [193] |
| Mr. Jefferson and Mrs. Wood in Ivanhoe | [196] |
| James T. Powers as Briolet, in The Marquis | [197] |
| Charles Burke as Kazrac, in Aladdin | [200] |
| N. C. Goodwin in Little Jack Sheppard | [201] |
| De Wolf Hopper as Juliet, and Marshall P. Wilder as Romeo | [203] |
| Henry E. Dixey as the Country Girl in Adonis | [205] |
| Munrico Dengremont | [211] |
| Josef Hofman | [215] |
| Otto Hegner | [219] |
| Elsie Leslie | [223] |
| Charles Stratton (“Tom Thumb”) | [227] |
| Lavinia Warren | [231] |
| John Howard Payne | [233] |
| Blind Tom | [235] |
| Master Burke as Hamlet | [237] |
| May Haines and Isa Bowman as the two Princes in King Richard III. | [239] |
| Edmund Kean | [259] |
| William Augustus Conway | [263] |
| James William Wallack | [267] |
| William C. Macready | [271] |
| Charles Kemble | [275] |
| Charles Kean | [279] |
| Edwin Forrest | [283] |
| Edward L. Davenport | [287] |
| James Stark | [291] |
| Edwin Booth | [295] |
| Lawrence Barrett | [299] |
| James E. Murdoch | [303] |
| Charles Fechter | [307] |
| Henry E. Johnstone | [311] |
| John Vandenhoff | [315] |
| George Jones | [319] |
| Augustus A. Addams | [323] |
| William Pelby | [327] |