American Stage John Gilbert American Actor cm351

"John Gilbert," by J. Rankin Towse. This is an appreciation of the veteran actor by a veteran drama critic. This is an original article from Century Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, January, 1888, 7 pp. (loose), 6 engraved Illustrations, 6 1/4" x 9 1/4".

About the Author:

J. Rankin Towse 1845-1933 A book of Mr Towse's reminiscences of dramatic work, "Sixty Years in the Theatre" was published in 1916. During the period from 1870 to 1927 Mr Towse served as reporter, city editor, assistant editor, foreign editor, or dramatic critic for the New York Evening Post. Fifty-four of those years he spent as dramatic critic, retiring on pension in 1927, when he was 82 years old. Mr Towse was born on April 2, 1845. After attending school at Highgate, he studied at Cambridge University. In 1869 he came to the United States. His entrance ito journalism came when he submitted to the Evening Post an article describing the disgraceful conditions in the penal institution at Blackwell's Island. They were printed, much to the indignation of Tammany Hall, and Mr Towse was thereupon engaged as a reporter. "In that capacity he covered the trial of Henry Ward Beecher. He reported the Westfield ferryboat disaster and the Tweed ring exposure and he was the first newspaperman to be admitted to the scene of the Nathan murder.

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