His first part with Lawrence Barrett was one of Paolo's friends in "Francesca da Rimini," done at the Star Theater, New York—now pulled down—in 1883. He was born in Virginia.
When he comes to play in "Les Misérables" this spring, and has so much to do with the priest in the story, I wonder if he will think many times of what might have been his career had he not gone to the theater so often while waiting for that ship to sail, back there in his 'teens!
Apropos of the production of "Les Misérables," Lackaye was asked some years ago if he had yet found a manager to bring it out for him.
"Bring it out?" he repeated. "I have yet to find one who can pronounce it."
Which, now, in the sequel, is an implied compliment for William A. Brady.
At one stage of his career, Lackaye's chief claim to distinction was his refusal, while a member of Daly's company, to accept a part to which Mr. Daly had assigned him. The part was Oliver in "As You Like It," given to him after he had made a hit as O'Donnell Don in "The Great Unknown."
It was the joking remark made at the time, that for the Oliver Mr. Daly offered him, Lackaye handed him a Roland in the shape of his resignation.
ROYLE TOOK MANY BUFFETS.
Author of "The Squaw Man" Has a Run
of Ill-Luck to Thank for His
Success as a Playwright.
Edwin Milton Royle, author of "The Squaw Man," is another of that countless army brought up to the law and who sidetracked themselves to the stage. He spent his youth in a place that seems to breed actors so freely—Salt Lake City—where he attended the same Presbyterian school as Maude Adams. He is now on the sunny side of fifty, having graduated from Princeton in 1883.