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SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE (1853- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 234 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:HERBERT BEERBOHM See also:TREE (1853- )  , See also:English actor and manager, was See also:born in See also:London, on the 17th of See also:December 18J3, the son of See also:Julius Beerbohm, a London See also:merchant of See also:German parentage; his See also:half-See also:brother, Max Beerbohm (b . 1872), became well known as a dramatic critic, a See also:miscellaneous writer and caricaturist . Taking the See also:stage name of Beerbohm See also:Tree he made his first professional See also:appearance in London in 1876 . After some years of varied experience he made a striking success in 1884 as the See also:curate in The Private Secretary, but he was making himself well known meanwhile in dramatic circles as an admirable actor in many roles . In See also:September 1887 he became lessee and manager of the Haymarket See also:theatre, London, where his representations of melodramatic " See also:character " parts, as in Jim the Penman, The Red See also:Lamp, and A See also:Man's See also:Shadow, were highly successful . His varied talents as an actor were displayed, however, not only in a number of See also:modern dramas, such as H . A . See also:Jones's Dancing Girl, but also in romantic parts such as See also:Gringoire, and in the See also:production of so essentially a See also:literary See also:play as See also:Henley's Beau See also:Austin; and in classic parts his ability as a comedian was shown in The Merry Wives of See also:Windsor, in which he played Falstaff, and as a tragedian in See also:Hamlet; his presentations of See also:Shakespeare were notable too as carrying forward the methods of realistic staging inaugurated at the See also:Lyceum under See also:Irving . In 1897 Mr Tree moved to the new Her See also:Majesty's (afterwards His Majesty's) theatre, opening with See also:Gilbert See also:Parker's Seats of the Mighty; but his See also:chief successes were in See also:Stephen See also:Phillips's poetical dramas, and in his splendid revivals of Shakespeare (especially See also:Richard II. and the Merchant of See also:Venice) . The magnificence of the mounting, the originality and See also:research shown in the " business " of his productions, and his own versatility in so many different types of character, made his management memorable in the See also:history of the London stage; and on the See also:death of See also:Sir See also:Henry Irving he was generally recognized as the See also:leader in his profession . His wife (Maud See also:Holt), an accomplished actress, and their daughter See also:Viola, were also prominently associated with him . In 1907 he took his See also:company to See also:Berlin at the invitation of the German See also:emperor, and gave a selection from his repertoire with See also:great success .

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year he established a school of dramatic See also:art, for the training of actors, in London; and in this and other ways he was prominent in forwarding the interests of the stage . He was knighted in 1909 .

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