Background
Paul Kester was born on November 2, 1870 at Delaware, Ohio, United States, the son of Franklin Cooley and Harriet (Watkins) Kester and a younger brother of Vaughan Kester.
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Sweet Nell of old Drury, a comedy in four acts
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Conservative Democracy: Principles and Practise of American Democracy (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Conservative Democracy: Principles and Practise of American Democracy All these old forms and agencies of power, all the continuing currents of influences ancient before our time, have left us a heritage of both good and evil, and it was only the rebirth of a people m a new land that enabled any great body of mankind simultaneously to view the whole course of events in perspective and to assort the elements of government and recom bine them to form what we now call American democracy. Without this separation by the sea it is doubtful if the human family could have evolved our philosophy of government and have put it into practise in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Diana Dauntless
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His Own Country (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from His Own Country Miss Bessie, with heightened color, scouted the very idea of such an idea. But the blush lingered on her cheeks. You don't reckon this Doctor Brent can be any kin to me she asked. He didn't say he was kin to the Brents of Brentwood, did he, Colonel? Anyway he can't be very near, for mother and Uncle Hampton were the only Brents of their generation, and poor crazy Cousin Constance and I are the only Brents left in this part of the world now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Tales of the Real Gypsy
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Paul Kester
Edit ProfileEducation
Kester was educated at private schools and by private tutors at Mount Vernon and Cleveland. Through trips to Europe he gained a fluent use of several languages that proved of great value in adapting plays by foreign authors.
Career
Kester's first work, The Countess Roudine, was produced by Helena Modjeska in 1892 with Minnie Maddern Fiske in the title role. Then followed a couple of gypsy plays for Alexander Salvini, Guy Mannering for Fanny Janauschek, and Eugene Aram for Walker Whiteside. His first great success came in 1900 when Sweet Nell of Old Drury was produced in London by Julia Neilson and Fred Terry and in the United States by Mlle. Rhea and Ada Rehan. Various companies took it to Australia and the Far East. It was revived in 1923 with moderate success.
Again in 1901 came another hit when his play, When Knighthood Was in Flower, based upon the popular novel by Charles Major, was produced with Julia Marlowe in the leading part. About 1902 he wrote Mademoiselle Mcrs, in which Mrs. Langtry played, followed by Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, adapted from another novel by Charles Major. With George Middleton he wrote The Cavalier, adapted from a novel by George W. Cable, in which Julia Marlowe was starred. Among his other plays were Don Quixote for E. H. Sothern, Fair Hannah Lightfoot for Annie Russell, The Bill Toppers for Marie Tempest, The Woman of Bronze and Lady Dedlock from Dickens's Bleak House for Margaret Anglin, and a pageant depicting the history of the Lee family of Virginia in 1929.
His favorite diversion was the study of gypsy life. He mastered their unwritten language, conversed with them, and wrote a book, Tales of the Real Gypsy (1897), about them. He also wrote some novels, notably His Own Country (1917), which was a story of Southern life. For many years he made his home in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Latterly he made his home at Lake Mohegan, New York, where he died after an attack of thrombosis at the age of sixty-two.
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Works
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Conservative Democracy: Principles and Practise of American Democracy (Classic Reprint)
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Tales of the Real Gypsy
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His Own Country (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from His Own Country Miss Bessie, with heightene...)
- Sweet Nell of old Drury, a comedy in four acts
- Diana Dauntless
- Friend Hannah : a comedy in four acts
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Conservative Democracy: Principles and Practise of American Democracy (Classic Reprint)
Personality
Kester was slender, rather below middle height, with a strong personality. He liked the dash and freedom, the picturesque atmosphere and coloring of the romantic play, and his best work was done in that vein.
Connections
Kester never married.
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Born
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Died
June 20, 1933 (aged 62) -
Resting place
Pohick Episcopal Church Cemetery, Lorton, Virginia, United States -
Nationality
American