Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1914 — Chums In Life and in Death. [ARTICLE]

Chums In Life and in Death.

Laurence Irving who, with his wife, perished in the Empress of Ireland disaster, had none of the conventional characteristics of an actor. He cared nothing for society and little or nothing for money. He was a man of wide culture, profound simplicity, and ready, eager sympathy. His performance in “Typhoon” established his right to be considered one of the half dozen most competent actors on the English stage. He was always an extremely painstaking worker, and everything he did, he did in his own way. He was, indeed, a real, lovable man, the entirely worthy holder of a great name. He and his wife, Mabel Hackney, were associated in everything, from the day of their marriage, and’it is appropriate that!. they should havd died together. Laurence Irving was one of the few Englishmen who spoke Russian flu* ently.