FREDERIC MACCABE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 85, 31 March 1883, Page 2

FREDERIC MACCABE.

— — — ♦ This world- renowned oulrvynuwnr will make his appearance in the FeSding Town Hall on Wednesday evening next, and the following particulars wilf prove interesting ; — At a farewell dinner giren by the members of tie Jumor Garriok Club to the sabieot of thi» notice, the chairman, Mr John Oxenford (dramatic critic of the London Times) said Msceabe was the best entertainer he had ever seen, and his experience dated from the remote days of the elder Matthews. He was not only an actor of great originality and power, but decidedly the joust remarkable living exponent of the ark of ventriloquism. Few who hare hadl the"pleasure of seeing Mr Maccabein his delightful entertainment "Begone, Dull Care " will take exception to tne veteran critic's generous rat well-de-served terms of praise. He was born in Liverpool, of Irish parents, which may in some measure account for the troth of his delineations of Hibernian and Lancashire character. His father dying hefore the future artist had completed his "schooling," the latter had to be completed in a lawyer's office. In this uncongenial sphere, however, the bias of the boy was soon made manifest, A. zealous cultivation of his taste for nrasie led him to believe that he might achieve distinction as a "professor," and accord- i ingly besought his master to cancel bier indentures. This request was granted; but meantime he had made 8 name in Liverpool as an amateur actor of singular skill. It is interesting now to know that " the young gentleman in the character of Mrs Malaprop," who so delighted the critics of the period, was young Frederic Maccabe. We next hear of bunas a successfnl competitor for the prises offered for the best prologues to the pieces played by the Literary and Dramatic Society ; and finally greet Mm on his first appearance on the stage at tie Prince's Theatre, Manchester. The success of Mr Maecabe's character sketches was so decided that the Wizard of the North offered him an engagement which he accepted, and in 1865 made his first appearance in London, in St. James's Hall. From that time until the present ", Begone, Dull Care " has carried good humor with it, and won for the author, composer, vocalist, and actor tens off thousands of friends in all parts of ike civilised world.