Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1902 — He “Supported” Kemble. [ARTICLE]

He “Supported” Kemble.

The mortality among actors who “formerly acted with Forrest, Booth and Jefferson” continues to be great. Almost every recent theatrical obituary makes plaintive allusion to the illustrious fact that the deceased once “supported” either one or the other or all of those renowned performers. There is a weather-beaten anecdote about the rural actor who strove to recall himself to the remembrance of Kemble—or perhaps it was of Cooke by claiming to have acted with him. “When we played Richard, sir,” he said, “I did the crowing; I was the ‘early village cock.’ ’’—New York Tribune.