AMERICAN COMEDIAN.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 70, 22 February 1890, Page 3

AMERICAN COMEDIAN.

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IC lata va^**a&bli!V^Z!am^to>^ p* om*Jnnmmi tefateroMmwr wis^m*wnsn*i^ • **aannwwenuaj nam warn monr an aw a ! *2*tebm*riaar>rt» from How Turk \ enaakaf kfoaaraam in tbo trot ol a . liriMOf iHl|jrttti.iioiilhiti LI hj i —aftoff hawhnfpayed Kip loo* enough i tema*»paafa*tWa*thatheaad«rer ! rapr*a*mtei amy atbor obareetor ha j i kail baaa omsariag ia oonjaartiua • , with tha fOmuur American comedian. I W. |. fm¥nftt*. The pi*ue allnded to it Bkaridaa>o eetvbraled oanody .if , "Tha mvam." la whioh floroaoe ia . dopiafiag Sir Laoiua OTrißgor, aad i JaaVrton, Bab Aen-s. Tha gnat > anawifoa bfta Bow cwnjileted bia 60th K', bio afrtb baring taken plaoa ia i. Hiafothor and hia grandfather • hod both boon playeraof ropaU; and I both bad been oalW Jooopb. Tha i Iret of tbo three Joeephi was bora ia • BngUnd wbrro. toward* tbo end of i tho loot eenfary, aad ia th* ouly part I of thta, ho waa an oatronied eomedian, i aad few eome time manager of tho r Portamontb Theatro. Ho aJtioMtely i emigrated to the United Brat a. and • died there, after kariag had a di»tin- • gniobed eareer on tho American stage. . Hia oon Joaeph, aa baa been hinted, . trod ia thn paternal footatep. In hia day he alao waa known aa aa actor nud t maaager. Ha rftfaa to hare boon • , man of mnebtalent ;bnt,nnfortnnately, i hiaaharoof "life*a foaet" would not ! appear to bare boon what tbo, i amiability of his dirpoeition a* vrllaa t aia clororneea ueoerroa. Tho Joooph i Jefferson of oar owa time, at may be » imagiaed. grew np amid surroundings . which were entirely calculated to \ deroky hia boroditnry bant. In bia I autobiography, the first portion of which has been published in th* Cob* I tnry Wagnrfaa, he deocribat with ad- . mirah|e7oaohsiihlaoarUtwt gßmpooof k theatrical Ufa. Aa the mat eger'e eon, , he bad free amass to that mjr-Vri-us [ regfoa whioh Hat behind tho soodm. , Among Aa images which improied i thamaolreo moat indelibly oa hie iafant I mind were eertain ones he saw rt-nVtod [ ia a largo mirror, which hung in the , drasfdng-room atcred to the "stum." t Theto apparitions he idontifid in after t ,' J. B. Booth— the"rWal. nnd, at hit ao> I mirer aaserted, the pqnaL if not . the superior of, Bdmnnd Kean—- [ WilKam Hacroady. and the *r*et Inah . oomAdian, Tyrone Power. Little Joe I waa m taken aa " when only a cliild of , 4 years; nnd aa incident which <»- , oarred in coaaoction with that aVnW might be deemed «f prophetic impurt ,i with regard to tbo pativular histrionic i lino whioh he waa to «d<«pt. While ,' f*aapad in tho arm of 80110, at that [ dorotad hero ab-od on n bridaje, . glaring defianoo at tha Bpanish inradere, ho waoatiaad with fright, aad , tagged eo datparrtolr at the head of , tbapriaealr Pertrfian that at last ho , left aha wigleta, a ostattropho which , waea'l tha mora awkaard from the . oimiautanea of BoDo happening to bo , bald. Head it be eald that the [ aadieaee "laughed oonsumcdlrT' i Tha death of hia fathr-r, whin tha boy , waa about 14 years old left him pretty f well trained area thus early for tha , «mm be we* destined to run. Itmay i bo acaad that hit mo'her, too, was t A Cliaaaiaa, aa fkat yoong Jaaapk asay ba Hetaght to bare bad erory ■atftinj taaaatfrt to make the stag* bh til Mag. like most beginnart, he work, and many trbAaad oloappoinhncou before ho atbmaed ft BMsjao poaitioo ia the pro. fftvtmi Boa, it nil event*, be eon. tiaaodlo frnwrata ateadily, and to win y* I'm aaafttmi at oompeatat judge*. •B» »By Hlsl #wß 69*«alV^BBB#kBt isnued, at least ■ ami AOwllW t 9fw M ||lbi'1 > 11111 Mptw VBlt It AM ' anatommmmaamnma-