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A Great American
Actor
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JOSEPH HAWORTH
(1855-1903) |
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was the golden age of American acting,
when spell-binding giants trod the
boards and kept a nation in thrall. Of
his Broadway performance as
"Romeo" in 1887, co-star
Julia
Marlowe wrote: "After the
killing of Tybalt the audience rose to
JOSEPH HAWORTH. Men stood up and
shouted ‘Bravo’ and women actually
got up on their seats and waved their
handkerchiefs. I never have heard such
an exhibition of enthusiasm in any
theatre. His power was quite
over-whelming." This website
examines the life and times of JOSEPH
HAWORTH, an actor who began in the
gas-light days with Edwin
Booth, and
who ended by playing an important role
in the creation of what we now call
‘Broadway Theatre’. |
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