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...Newport. "In few cases was the ball returned!" With this journalistic naivete a pressman described the match between William M. Johnton and Brian I. C. Norton at the Newport Casino. No epigram could have summed it up as neatly. Johnston, since he already won the tournament on two previous years gained permanent possession of the Casino silver bowl, valued...
Davis Cup. Tilden, Johnston, Williams, Richards, in the order named, were chosen by the Election Committee to represent the U. S. in the coming Davis Cup matches...
There are a dozen Forbes-Robertson mouths to feed and Johnston, the eldest, though speedily mastering his painting, cannot refuse a salaried part in Mary, Queen o' Scots at the Princess Theatre. Other engagements follow and the young actor begins meeting the great stage folk of the day-Charles Calvert, Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps (who trains him), Madame Modjeska, Author Charles Read amid a sea of manuscript in his study, Miss Ellen Terry in her gray-blue drawing-room with ribbons of incense smoke wreathing the Venus of Milo...
...Significance. And so-including a description of the ceremony of the accolade, tales of touring the Continent, and many more intimate memories of princes, presidents and pre-Raphaelites-to the farewell performance of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (Hamlet at Harvard in 1916). Cables Herbert Tree: "All our stage is proud of you." After the passing* of one of the great actor-managers in the lofty line of Garrick, Siddons and Macready, his book is a snapshot album copiously illustrating the rich life of his day and a memorial for ex-audiences from Berlin to Vancouver...
...PLAYER UNDER THREE REIGNS-Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson-Little, Brown ($5.00). *Only from the stage. Sir Johnston still abides, aged 72, in Bedford Square, London...