Background
Rose Eytinge was born on November 21, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Evidence points to David Eytinge, professor of languages, and his wife Rebecca, as her parents.
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Rose Eytinge
Edit ProfileEducation
Educated at home, Eytinge early became an eager student of plays and players.
Career
In 1853, following amateur success, Eytinge went to Syracuse as juvenile leading lady in Geary Hough’s stock company, making her début as Melanie in The Old Guard at a salary of seven dollars a week.
Her second engagement was at the Green Street Theatre in Albany where she made her first appearance September 10, 1855.
Then came several seasons in New York stock companies during which she supported Booth, as Fiordelisa in The Fool’s Revenge at Niblo’s Garden, and later, notably as Julie in Richelieu, at the Winter Garden.
In August 1864 Eytinge joined the famous Davenport-Wallack combination, with whom one of her pronounced successes was Nancy Sykes in Oliver Twist, a part she played with convincing realism.
Between seasons, 1866 - 1867, she played Kate Peyton in Daly’s dramatization of Griffith Gaunt and created for Daly the part of Laura Courtland in Under the Gaslight. In 1868 Eytinge left Wallack and Davenport for the place of leading lady in Lester Wallack’s theatre.
She returned to the stage, joining in 1873 - 1874 the brilliant company at Union Square Theatre, where she played Gabrielle in The Geneva Cross and created the part of Armande in Led Astray and the title role of Rose Michel.
With the latter play Eytinge began in 1876 a successful starring tour, thereafter appearing in the principal American cities at the head of her own company. Her most brilliant success as a star seems to have been in Antony and Cleopatra, which she produced in New York in 1877. She had studied atmosphere and setting in Egypt whence she brought rich costumes and properties.
In 1880 she appeared successfully in London where she was lionized by literary and political notables, among them Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Gladstone, Lord Roseberry, and Charles Reade. After 1884 she rarely appeared, giving much time to training pupils for the stage. She established a school of acting in New York in 1890, and another, later, in Portland, Oregon.
Eytinge dramatized several novels, wrote a play, Golden Chains, and a romance, It Happened This Way (1890), as well as the racy Memories of Rose Eytinge wherein she describes her stage life, her years in Egypt, and her encounters with celebrities. When she retired from the stage in 1908 a benefit performance was given for her in Portland. Rose Eytinge died on December 20, 191, at Brunswick Home, Amityville, New York, in the care of the Actors’ Fund.
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The Memories of Rose Eytinge; Being Recollections & Observations of Men, Women, and Events, During Half a Century. New York-1905
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The Memories of Rose Eytinge; Being Recollections & Observations of Men, Women, and Events, During Half a Century. New York-1905
Personality
Rose Eytinge was one of the most temperamental and unmanageable of artists - wayward, capricious, defiant, prone to quarrel with managers and stars, and given to mischievous by-play on the stage which sometimes caused the untimely descent of the curtain.
Connections
In 1855, Rose Eytinge married the newspaperman and author David M. Barnes, but was divorced in 1862. They had one daughter, Rose Courtney.
In 1869, Eytinge married Col. George H. Butler, U. S. Consul General to Egypt. They had two children, a daughter and a son. Due to Butler's abusive behavior and infidelities, Eytinge sued for divorce in 1882.
In 1880, Eytinge married the actor Cyril Searle, but they were separated four years later.
- Father:
- David Eytinge
- Mother:
- Rebecca Eytinge (Savage)
- Sister:
- Mary Esther Eytinge
- Daughter:
- Florence Walsh (Butler)
- Daughter:
- Rose Courtney Barnes
- Son:
- Benjamin Franklin Butler
- husband:
- David M. Barnes
- husband:
- George Harris Butler
- husband:
- Joseph Cyril Searle
George Harris Butler, the nephew of a prominent Massachusetts Congressman, was appointed Consul General in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1870.
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February 20, 1911 (aged 76) -
Resting place
The Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, United States -
Nationality
American