NATHANIEL CARL

GOODWIN (1857– )  , American actor, was born in Boston on the 25th of July 1857 . While clerk in a large shop he studied for the stage, and made his first appearance in 1893 in Boston in Stuart Robson's company as the newsboy in Joseph Bradford's Law . He made an immediate success by his imitations of popular actors . A hit in the burlesque Black-eyed Susan led to his taking part in Rice and Goodwin's Evangeline company . It was at this time that he married Eliza Weathersby (d . 1887), an English actress with whom he played in B . E . Woollf's Hobbies . It was not until 1889, however, that Nat Goodwin's talent as a comedian of the "legitimate" type began to be recognized . From that time he appeared in a number of plays designed to display his drily humorous method, such as Brander Matthews' and George H . Jessop's A Gold Mine, Henry Guy Carleton's A Gilded Fool and Ambition, Clyde Fitch's Nathan Hale, H . V .

Esmond's When we were Twenty-one, &c . Till 1903 he was associated in his performanceswith his third wife, the actress Max'

ine Elliott (b . 1873), whom he married in 1898; this marriage was dissolved in 1908 .