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MAURICE BARRLS (1862– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 435 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAURICE See also:BARRLS (1862– )  , See also:French novelist and politician, was See also:born at Channes (See also:Vosges) on the 22nd of See also:September 1862; he was educated at the lycee of See also:Nancy, and in 1883 went to See also:Paris to continue his legal studies . He was already a contributor to the monthly periodical, Jeune See also:France, and he now issued a periodical of his own, See also:Les Taches d'encre, which survived for a few months only . After four years of journalism he went to See also:Italy, where he wrote Sous l'ceil See also:des barbares (1888), the first See also:volume of a trilogie du moi, completed by Un Homme libre (1889), and Le Jardin de See also:Berenice (1891) . He divided the See also:world into moi and the barbarians, the latter including all those See also:anti-pathetic to the writer's individuality . These apologies for ' Jedediah See also:Morse See also:American See also:Geography, See also:part ii. p . 334 (See also:Boston, See also:Mass., 1796) . 2 See also:Knight's See also:London, vol. i. p . 144 . 3 See also:Hone's Every See also:Day See also:Book, i. p . 1248 . 4 Collection of all the Dialogues written by Mr See also:Thomas (London, 1704), p . 297 .

6 Hone's Every Day Book, ii. pp . 1452-1453 . 6 See See also:

Catalogue descriptif (See also:Ghent, 188o), Nos . 461 and 462 . 7 Breitkopf and Hartel's Critically revised edition of See also:Mozart's See also:Works, See also:series x. no . 1o . See also:Brown son of a See also:farmer . He made his first See also:appearance on the See also:stage at See also:Halifax in 1864, and then played in the provinces alone and with his wife, See also:Caroline See also:Heath, in See also:East Lynne . After managerial experiences at See also:Leeds and elsewhere, in 1879 he took the management of the old See also:Court See also:theatre, where he introduced Madame See also:Modjeska to London, in an See also:adaptation of See also:Schiller's Maria See also:Stuart, Adrienne See also:Lecouvreur, La See also:Dame aux camelias and other plays . It was not till 1881, however, wheu he took the Princess's theatre, that he became well known to the public in the emotional See also:drama, The See also:Lights o' London, by G . R . See also:Sims .

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play which made him an established favourite was The See also:Silver See also:King by See also:Henry See also:Arthur See also:Jones, perhaps the most successful See also:melodrama ever staged, produced in 1882 with himself as Wilfred See also:Denver, his See also:brother See also:George (an excellent comedian) in the See also:cast, and E . S . See also:Willard (b . 1853) as the " Spider,"—this being the part in which Mr Willard, afterwards a well-known actor both in See also:America and See also:England, first came to the front . See also:Barrett played this part for three See also:hundred nights without a break, and repeated his London success in W . G . See also:Wills's Claudian which followed . In 1884 he appeared in See also:Hamlet, but soon returned to melodrama, and though he had occasional seasons in London he acted chiefly in the provinces . In 1886 he made his first visit to America, repeated in later years, and in 1898 he visited See also:Australia . During these years the London stage was coming under new influences, and See also:Wilson Barrett's See also:vogue in melodrama had waned . But in 1895 he struck a new vein of success with his drama of religious emotion, The Sign of the See also:Cross, which crowded his theatre with audiences largely composed of See also:people outside the See also:ordinary circle of playgoers . He attempted to repeat the success with other plays of a religious type, but not with equal effect, and several of his later plays were failures .

He died on the 22nd of See also:

July 1904 . Wilson Barrett was a See also:sterling actor of a robust type and striking physique, not remarkable for intellectual finesse, but excelling in melodrama, and very successful as the central figure on his own stage .

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