Joseph Jefferson

The five are known today as the Christmas books.

Of them all, the Carol is the best known and loved, and the Cricket on the Hearth, although third in the series, is perhaps next in point of popularity, and is especially familiar to Americans through Joseph Jefferson's characterization of Caleb Plummer.

Dickens seems to have put his whole self into these glowing little stories.

Whoever sees but a clever ghost story in The Christmas Carol misses its chief charm and lesson.

First she kept me awake by silly alarms.

Then when she was needed, she slept like Joe Jefferson or Rip.

They are always the same to me.

I went in and aroused her, and I give her credit for being wide awake the minute I spoke.

XXIII.

JOE JEFFERSON Joseph, or, as he was always called, Joe Jefferson, was a great actor.

And there is never much talk of theatres, actors, and plays, but some one is apt to say, "'Ah, but you should have seen Joe Jefferson and Rip Van Winkle!' All Americans are very proud of the fact that this man was born in the United States, that he lived and died here.

There have been four actors in the Jefferson family by the name of Joseph, but it was Joe Jefferson No. 3 who played the part of the queer old Dutchman, Rip Van Winkle, for 30 years, whose life is told of now.

joe was born in philadelphia but his parents went to washington soon after they lived in a house whose back hall led right into the side entrance of a theatre as soon as he could walk about by himself little joe used to run through this hall and play all day long in the empty theatre behind the scenes Out in that part of the old building there were all kinds of stage settings piled up behind the wings.

There were large pieces of canvas painted to look like an Italian lake or an English garden, or a Roman palace.

As Springfield was the capital of that state, and the men attending the legislature would swell the audiences, Joe's father decided to build a theater there.

Just as it was finished, the ministers of the place began to preach against allowing a theater there at all.

The five are known today as the Christmas books.

Of them all, the Carol is the best known and loved, and the Cricket on the Hearth, although third in the series, is perhaps next in point of popularity, and is especially familiar to Americans through Joseph Jefferson's characterization of Caleb Plummer.

dickens seems to have put his whole self into these glowing little stories whoever sees but a clever ghost story in the christmas carol misses its chief charm and lesson for there is a different meaning to the movements of scrooge and his attendant spirits a new life is brought to scrooge when he running to his window opened it and put out his head no fog no mist clear bright jovial stirring cold cold piping for the blood to dance to golden sunlight heavenly sky sweet fresh air merry bills o glorious glorious All this brightness has its attendant shadow, and deep from the childish heart comes the true note of pathos, the ever-memorable toast of Tiny Tim.

God bless us, everyone! The cricket on the hearth strikes a different note.

XXIII.

JOE JEFFERSON Joseph, or, as he was always called, Joe Jefferson, was a great actor.

And there is never much talk of theaters, actors, and plays, but someone is apt to say, "'Ah, but you should have seen Joe Jefferson and Rip Van Winkle.'" All Americans are very proud of the fact that this man was born in the United States, that he lived and died here.

There have been four actors in the Jefferson family by the name of Joseph, but it was Joe Jefferson No. 3 who played the part of the queer old Dutchman, Rip Van Winkle, for 30 years, whose life is told off now.

joe was born in philadelphia but his parents went to washington soon after they lived in a house whose back hall led right into the side entrance of a theatre as soon as he could walk about by himself little joe used to run through this hall and play all day long in the empty theatre behind the scenes Out in that part of the old building there were all kinds of stage settings piled up behind the wings.

There were large pieces of canvas painted to look like an Italian lake or an English garden, or a Roman palace.

The people in the audience kept clapping their hands for more and threw silver coins onto the stage for the child, until stagehands, after the curtain went down, picked up twenty-four dollars and gave them to Joe.

In spite of Joe's being most carefully trained by his parents to tell the truth and say his prayers, he did, when he was small, let his fancy run away with him sometimes, and to a dear old lady, always dressed in stiffly starched frills, black gown and mitts, who kept a book and notion store, he told stories of horrors that never really happened.

Many names familiar to British or American theatre-goers appear in the catalogue.

C.J. Matthews, William Rignold, w h kendall henry neville genevieve ward e h sothern george conquest harry polton ella dietz curl billiou wilson barrett fred vokes howard paul and ada swanborough three paintings by joseph jefferson were shown a sea-coast at sundown a scotch lock and a lake scene in america the last named being lent by the actor's son-in-law the late b l fargen novelist all the pictures by matthews in this collection were landscapes and as these titles suggest it is in landscape painting that the genial rip delights to spend such leisure hours as can be spared from acting and fishing some of his best pictures have for their subject the cypress swamps of louisiana where mr jefferson owns a large plantation but his brush is not by any means limited to such scenes and when the actor is seen no more upon our stage he will leave behind him not only the memory of a famed comedian a fellow of infinite jest but also that of an artist endowed with both sympathy and imagination chapter twenty three

CHAPTER XXIV.

SALVINI.

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