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William Evans Burton was born in London in 1802 and was the son of a London printer, William George Burton, who was the author of a work entitled Researches.
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William Evans Burton was born in London in 1802 and was the son of a London printer, William George Burton, who was the author of a work entitled Researches.
This title suggests why the son was sent to St. Paul's School, and destined for the Church.
William's father died, however, when young Burton was eighteen, and the boy had to leave school to run the printing business. Like many other young men of the period, he took part in amateur plays, and in 1825 joined a professional company in the provinces. After six years of this training, in which he developed a natural aptitude for comedy, he appeared in 1831 at the London Pavilion, as Wormwood in The Lottery Ticket.
The following year he succeeded Liston as comedian at the Haymarket, when the latter left that company in a huff. But presently Liston decided to come back, so Burton was once more out of steady employment, and readily consented, in 1834, to accept an offer from America.
On September 3, 1834, he appeared as Wormwood, and as Dr. Ollapod in The Poor Gentleman, at the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, then one of the leading playhouses of the country. He remained four years in Philadelphia, playing such parts as Goldfinch in The Road to Ruin, Sir Peter Teazle, Dogberry, and Bob Acres.
Meanwhile he also wrote numerous magazine sketches later collected in a volume called Waggeries and Vagaries (1848). He also started the Gentleman's Magazine (1837 - 40) a monthly publication, of which Edgar Allan Poe was editor during the last year, but the two men did not get on together. Meanwhile Burton visited other cities as a traveling star, acting first in New York in October 1837, at the National Theatre, for the benefit of Samuel Woodworth, author of "The Old Oaken Bucket. "
In 1841 he essayed management in New York, but the theatre burned down and he returned to Philadelphia, managing not only two theatres there but the Front Street Theatre in Baltimore and a theatre in Washington. He also acted constantly himself. Evidently a man of tireless energy, on July 10, 1848, he again entered the New York field, opening a small, intimate house on Chambers St. , rechristened Burton's Theatre, which soon became and remained for eight years, the most popular playhouse in New York, if not in America.
It was regarded with much the same affection that Manhattan later bestowed on the intimate little Weber and Fields Music Hall. It was a theatre where more or less serious plays, including the classics, alternated with hilarious broad comedy, or even burlesque, where the company was composed of a happy family of excellent players, and where the audience was always sure of a well-produced entertainment and a good time. It was a school for actors, for in the company during its eight years were Henry Placide, John Brougham, Lester Wallack, Lawrence Barrett, George Holland, Charles Fisher, and many more who later became leaders on the stage.
Here were acted stage versions of Dombey and Son and David Copperfield, with Burton as Cap'n Cuttle and Micawber (two or his most famous parts), here Shakespeare was carefully revived with Burton as Falstaff, Bottom, Sir Toby, and even Caliban, and here he made the town roar as Sleek and Toodle. In his company was Miss Jane Hill, wife of James Hilson, stage-doorkeeper; after April 1853 she appeared under the name of Mrs. Burton.
In 1856 Burton moved to a larger house uptown, but the intimacy was gone in the new surroundings, and the venture failed in two years. He then toured the country with much success. At Mechanics Hall, Hamilton, Canada, in December 1859, he made his last appearance, returning to New York exhausted, and dying of heart disease on February 10, 1860.
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William Burton was a painstaking, intelligent impersonator, in spite of the somewhat broadly exaggerated style of acting he had learned from Liston, and he had a high ideal of ensemble playing and careful stage direction.
William was a born comedian, with a broad, genial face which could assume any expression, and a joyous, hearty nature which always infected an audience with good humor, and that was the reason why everybody loved him.
As early as April 10, 1823, William Evans Burton was married an actress but apparently was divorced from her, as on July 18, 1834, he was married to Caroline Glessing of London. His three daughters are mentioned pleasantly by Jefferson in his Autobiography.