Nat Goodwin's Book

by Nat. C. Goodwin

Chapter		Page
I	Commencement Day	[17]
II	My Debut	[22]
III	Stuart Robson	[26]
IV	John McCullough	[35]
V	Sir Henry Irving	[38]
VI	"Barry" and Jefferson	[41]
VII	A Sunny Son of Sometime	[49]
VIII	Charles Hoyt	[51]
IX	Sir Charles Wyndham	[54]
X	Charles R. Thorne, Jr.	[56]
XI	Sol Smith Russell	[61]
XII	Richard Mansfield	[67]
XIII	In Variety	[75]
XIV	Eliza Weathersby	[80]
XV	Successful Failures	[89]
XVI	Back in the 'Eighties	[92]
XVII	The Halcyon Days of Union Square	[96]
XVIII	The Birth of the Syndicate	[101]
XIX	Stars	[109]
XX	Atmospheric Plays	[115]
XXI	Actors Past and Present	[118]
XXII	Maude Adams	[121]
XXIII	Tyrone Power	[126]
XXIV	An Artistic Success!	[127]
XXV	The Skating Rink	[131]
XXVI	Number Two	[134]
XXVII	A Fight Won (?)	[140]
XXVIII	John Chamberlain	[148]
XXIX	W. S. Gilbert	[152]
XXX	Henry E. Dixey	[153]
XXXI	Swagger New Yorkers of Another Day	[155]
XXXII	James Whitcomb Riley	[157]
XXXIII	Digby Bell and De Wolf Hopper	[159]
XXXIV	Blaine and Ingersoll	[162]
XXXV	Jim Corbett in England	[164]
XXXVI	The Cockney Cabby Comedian	[166]
XXXVII	A Gilded Fool and Other Plays	[168]
XXXVIII	George M. Cohan	[177]
XXXIX	Thoughts Vaudeville-Born	[179]
XL	John Drew	[181]
XLI	The Rivals Revival	[182]
XLII	Wilton Lackaye	[185]
XLIII	"Young" Mansfield	[187]
XLIV	David Warfield	[190]
XLV	A Day at Reno	[192]
XLVI	Lillian Russell	[197]
XLVII	Dramatic Schools	[198]
XLVIII	Number Three (Almost)	[201]
XLIX	The Confessional	[207]
L	San Francisco	[211]
LI	Antony (?) and Cleopatra	[216]
LII	Honolulu and Samoa	[223]
LIII	Publicity—Its Results	[230]
LIV	In the Land of the Kangaroo	[233]
LV	Welcome(!) Home	[240]
LVI	Number Three	[243]
LVII	When We Were Twenty-One and Other Plays	[248]
LVIII	At Jackwood	[254]
LIX	"Why Do Beautiful Women Marry Nat Goodwin?"	[262]
LX	Billy Thompson	[265]
LXI	The Critics	[266]
LXII	James A. Hearne	[277]
LXIII	Eddie Foy	[279]
LXIV	William Gillette	[280]
LXV	William Brady, Esq.	[283]
LXVI	Robert Ford	[284]
LXVII	More Plays	[286]
LXVIII	Willie Collier	[288]
LXIX	Henry Miller	[290]
LXX	What's in a Name?	[291]
LXXI	I Try Being a Business Man	[293]
LXXII	The Five Fateful Fish Cakes and Number Four	[302]
LXXIII	Sir Beerbohm Tree	[315]
LXXIV	The Origin of the Stage	[317]
LXXV	My Stage-Struck Valet	[321]
LXXVI	George C. Tyler	[324]
LXXVII	I Find the Very Best Phyllis	[326]
LXXVIII	The Lambs Club	[329]
LXXIX	I "Come Back"	[332]
LXXX	I Go Back	[334]
LXXXI	David Belasco	[336]
LXXXII	"Author—Author"	[337]
LXXXIII	Mushroom Managers	[341]
LXXXIV	"Keep off the Grass"	[345]
LXXXV	California	[350]
LXXXVI	I Become a Barnstormer	[352]
LXXXVII	Number Five	[355]
LXXXVIII	L'Envoie	[356]
	Index	[359]

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[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]

		Facing Page
	Nat C. Goodwin	[Frontispiece]
	William Warren	[20]
	The greatest comedian that ever lived
	Stuart Robson	[26]
	The best Shakespearean clown of modern times
	Tony Hart	[30]
	He had the face of an Irish Apollo, did Tony Hart
	John McCullough and Associate Players in the Dramatic Festival	[36]
	"Mr." McCullough and the rest of us
	Sir Henry Irving	[40]
	An extraordinary man
	Joseph Jefferson	[46]
	I firmly believe I improved his morals
	Sir Charles Wyndham	[54]
	A remarkable man
	Charles R. Thorne, Jr.	[60]
	A royal picture to contemplate
	In the Little Rebel	[76]
	One of my first excursions into the legitimate
	Eliza Weathersby	[80]
	The wife who mothered me
	In Hobbies with Eliza Weathersby	[84]
	The play I won at faro
	Lithograph of Goodwin's Froliques	[88]
	In Turned Up	[92]
	In the days when I was an imitator
	Lotta	[98]
	In the days when work was play
	Jack Haverly	[102]
	The man who conceived the syndicate
	In the Gold Mine	[112]
	My get-up in The Gold Mine
	Those Were the Happy Days	[118]
	Coquelin	[124]
	Would he have gone in vaudeville? I wonder
	Nella Baker Pease	[134]
	The best amateur piano player I ever heard
	Nat C. Goodwin, III	[138]
	Pals	[150]
	Richard Carle, Fred G. Stanley, Nat Goodwin, Walter Jones, De Wolf Hopper
	In Confusion	[160]
	Back in the eighties
	Nat Goodwin and Company in In Mizzoura	[168]
	One of the best casts I ever saw
	Ticket Sale for In Mizzoura	[176]
	Dick Golden	[182]
	We were pals for many years
	David Warfield and Nat Goodwin	[190]
	I'm proud of the company
	In Mizzoura	[200]
	One of the greatest of American plays
	Mrs. N. C. Goodwin, Sr.	[210]
	A dear old lady living in Boston
	How much a Lamb I was I didn't know—Then!	[216]
	An Australian Greeting Can't Touch its Farewell!	[220]
	In An American Citizen	[232]
	If we had been associated a few years longer my name would have been up as her leading support!
	As Bob Acres	[240]
	I gave Bob a country dialect
	Maxine Elliott	[246]
	Fate's partner
	In When We were Twenty-One	[252]
	The biggest bit of any play I ever produced
	In Nathan Hale	[258]
	"They hang Nat in the last act"
	Wm. H. Thompson	[264]
	An artist to his finger tips
	James A. Hearne	[278]
	He knew how poor Sol "fell"
	Robert Ford	[284]
	"A cold-blooded, conscienceless murderer"
	As Cameo Kirby	[294]
	I never played a character I liked so well
	Edna Goodrich	[304]
	My young and handsome star
	As Shylock	[310]
	One of my successful failures
	In Hamlet	[320]
	It had always been my desire to appear in Shakespearean roles
	Margaret Moreland	[326]
	The very best Phyllis
	As Fagin in Oliver Twist	[330]
	"Fagin was a comedian"
	David Belasco	[336]
	An intellectual giant
	Drawn while We were "Barnstorming"	[344]
	The Ranch at San Jacinto, California	[350]
	A scene not equalled in the Austrian Tyrol

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NAT GOODWIN'S BOOK

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NAT GOODWIN'S BOOK