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

In the same

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year he established a school of dramatic
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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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