SIR HENRY IRVING’S DEATH
A TRAGIC END,
By tdegra,fih„ Pres* 'A'sa’iU* ’Copyright London, Oot IS* The press and leading actors in Britain and Europe and Amerioa onammooßly eulogise Sir Henry Irving an England a most iliuHtriooß aotor and greatest orna. mont of the stage. Mias Ellen Terry suggests the establish* moot of a municipal theatre, where standard lines of drama will be upheld. It would be a fitting monument to Sir Henry Irving, since it would realise his life fl W °Bir Henry Irving was playing the part of Becket in Tennyson’a tragedy, j.be I play was ending, and Sit Henry Irving had fallen to his kneeß, and had ]OBb uttered the last words of his part, “ Into Thy hands, 0 Lord, into Thy hands, when he was attacked by syncope. Ho was immediately taken to his hotel, and ~, died in a few minutes. Received 9.50 p.tn., Oct. 16. I London, Oct. 16. The King and Queen expressed to Sir Honry Irving’s family their sincere sympathy. They considered the death of cuoh I a distinguished ornament a great loss to the prolession. ~ , .. . President Roosevelt cabled his great I Many have suggested that Sir Henry should be interred in Westminster Abbey, i
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1586, 17 October 1905, Page 2
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