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MAURICE BARRYMORE & Sarah Bernhardt  CLICK HERE FOR Sarah Bernhardt Store Image is in Color. Barry worked with the likes of Julia Marlowe, Marie Burroughs, William Crane, Herbert Kelsey, De Wolf Hopper, Grace Henderson, Helena Modjeska, Rose Coghlan, Lillian Russell, Lawrence Barrett, Richard Mansfield and Sarah Bernhardt. Barry's mother-in-law Louis and brother-in-law John Drew also rubbed elbows with the likes. Let us take an in-camera look at some of these actors and their appearances in costume and in real life. First off there was indestructible Sarah Bernhardt. In March of 1886 Barry and Georgina Barrymore had supper with Bernardt and Lillie Langtry. John Davis author of Great Times Good Times wrote the definitive book on Maurice Barrymore. In his book one will find On June 19 "Handsome Jack" Barnes...replaced Maurice in Jim the Penman, freeing him for three days of farewell fetes, heightened by Sarah Bernhardt's assurance that she had read an act of Nadjezda ( a play written by Barrymore) and found it 'striking to a degree.'" This would eventually lead to a lawsuit against Sarah Bernhardt for allegedly taking liberties and placing them in another play entitled La Tosca. Barrymore said that with out observing the play he could not accuse Bernhardt of plagiarism. He wanted to drop the suit, but his lawyers encouraged him to pursue it, for it was a winner. He eventually lost, when asked about it Davis wrote : "...I can prove that at the insistence of Henry E. Abbey I supplied him with a French translation, which Sarah Bernhardt had in her possession for a whole year, and during the very time that La Tosca was being written for her by Sardou..." Davis, Ibid, p. 242, 260, 273, 277.
	Julia Marlowe  Louisa Drew, Maurice's mother-in-law, worked with Julia Marlowe in The Love Chase. When they finished this tour Louisa Drew and Maurice were partners in the play The Rivals. Davis, p. 327 John Drew wrote of his mother's performace : "In the late nineties I saw my mother act for the last time, in Chicago. This was in an all-star cast of The Rivals. She played her familiar character of Mrs. Malaprop. William H. Crane was Sir Anthony; Robert Taber, as Captain Absolute; Joseph Jefferson, as Bob Acres; Nat Goodwin, as Sir Lucius,...Julia Marlow, Lydia Languish and Fanny Rice, as Lucy. This cast made a celebrated and quick tour through the important Eastern cities, playing in about twenty-seven different towns in less than a month...."
Mrs. and Mr. Herbert Kelsey    Maurice Barrymore and Mrs. Herbert Kelsey starred in The Reckless Temple. They were the headliners with the leading roles. They received a favorable review from The Boston Herald. Maurice's wife, Georgina Drew-Barrymore had acted with famous stars such as Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett and others because her mother ran the Theatre in Philadelphia. Herbert Kelsey, is in a Costume of Magyard, of Hungary.
	Marie Burroughs
William Crane
	Richard Mansfield  In 1895 when Mansfield named his Theater The Garrick, Leander Richardson wrote him a letter asking him why. On March 22, 1895 Mansfield said "I simply call it the Garrick because it happened so. I won't call it Mansfield's. I don't like theatres called by the names of living things..."
De Wolf Hopper
	Lawrence Barrett