Rose Eytinge was an American

United States

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 actress and author, born in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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. From 1862 to 1869 she played in various theatres in New York City

New York City

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 and then went abroad with her second husband, Col. George H. Butler, Consul General to Egypt

Egypt

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.

On her return to the United States in 1871 she took the rôle of Cleopatra at the Broadway Theatre, to the Antony of Frederick B. Warde

Frederick Warde

Frederick Barkham Warde was an English Shakesperian actor who relocated to the United States in the late 19th century.In the late 1870s he partnered with actor Maurice Barrymore and the two agreed to tour plays around the United States. Warde would have one section of the country while Barrymore...

. Among her principal later parts were Nancy Sykes in Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to...

, Gervaise in Drink, Ophelia

Ophelia

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to the Hamlet

Hamlet

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of E. L. Davenport

Edward Loomis Davenport

Edward Loomis Davenport was an American actor.Born in Boston, he made his first appearance on the stage in Providence, Rhode Island in support of Junius Brutus Booth. Afterwards he went to England, where he supported Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt , William Charles Macready and others...

, and Desdemona

Desdemona (Othello)

Desdemona is a character in William Shakespeare's play Othello . Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a man several years her senior. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the...

with James W. Wallack

James William Wallack

James William Wallack was an Anglo-American actor and manager, born in London, and brother of Henry John Wallack.Wallack's parents were comedians, who performed at the London minor playhouses and in the British provinces. His first appearance on the stage was as a child at the Surrey Theatre in...

 as Othello

Othello

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...

and Davenport as Iago

Iago

Iago is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello . The character's source is traced to Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio's tale "Un Capitano Moro" in Gli Hecatommithi . There, the character is simply "the ensign". Iago is a soldier and Othello's ancient . He is the husband of Emilia,...

. Her literary works include adaptations of Dicken's

Charles Dickens

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 Oliver Twist and Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son

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, Browning's

Robert Browning

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 Colombe's Birthday, her personal Recollections, published serially, and Memories (1905).

Her daughter became the second wife of actor John T. Raymond

John T. Raymond

John T. Raymond , whose true name was John O'Brien, was an American stage actor, born in Buffalo, N. Y., on August 5, 1836; he died in Evansville, Indiana on April 10, 1887...

. A son, Frank Butler, was a newspaper artist and roommate of a novice young actor named John Barrymore

John Barrymore

John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...

. Frank died in 1904.

External links

• Rose Eytinge photo gallery