1. Editor's note: Further biographical material on Malcolm Morley may be found in Nash, George W., “Malcolm Morley,” Theatre Notebook, XX, no. 3 (Spring, 1966), 98–99.Google Scholar

2. Editor's note: John E. (for “Ego,” according to those who knew him) Kellerd (1863–1929) was an interesting minor figure in American theatrical history. Born in a small suburb of London, he made his professional debut as Hamlet at the King's Cross on January 10, 1879. For the next four years he was a leading man in the provinces and in London, playing an engagement at Sadler's Wells in 1882–83. R. M. Field saw him in England and engaged him for the Boston Museum stock company, with which he made his American debut on August 23, 1883. In one season at the Museum he established himself in modern and classical roles and thereafter played supporting engagements with Daniel Bandmann, William J. Florence and Frederick Warde. On August 16, 1886 he made his New York debut as the Spy in Gillette's Held by the Enemy. In 1888 he played Lucius O'Trigger in one of the greatest productions of The Rivals ever staged: Joseph Jefferson was Bob Acres, John Gilbert was Sir Anthony and Mrs. John Drew was Mrs. Malaprop. For the next fifteen years he was a successful and sought-after leading man in modern drama, with an occasional foray into “the classics,” as when he was leading man to Madame Modjeska in 1899–1900. In 1906 he debuted as a Shakespearean star and for most of the rest of his career toured with minor success as Hamlet, Shylock, Macbeth, Benedick, lago and even Oedipus Rex. (Kellerd first played Oedipus Rex at the Irving Place Theatre on August 21, 1911–see Mantle, Burns and Sherwood, Garrison P., The Best Plays of 1909–1919 [New York, 1933], p. 448.Google Scholar At the time it was claimed that this marked the first production of Sophocles’ play on the American professional stage. I know of no earlier production.) Kellerd's last notable role was Ferdinand Gadd in the 1927 all-star production of Trelawney of the Wells (appropriately, since he himself had once played “the Wells”) with Pauline Lord (replaced by Peggy Wood on the road), John Drew, Wilton Lackaye, Estelle Winwood, Henrietta Crosman and Rollo Peters. Kellerd died of apoplexy in 1929. See Clapp, John Bouvé and Edgett, Edwin Francis, Players of the Present, Part II (New York, 1900), pp. 194–197Google Scholar; various issues of Theatre Magazine; Kellerd's obituary in the New York Times, June 7, 1929.

3. John E. Kellerd opened with Hamlet at the Garden Theatre, New York, on November 18, 1912. Malcolm Morley appears as Guildenstem in the cast of December 28, 1912.

4. Kellerd's production of The Merchant of Venice opened at the Harris Theatre on January 20, 1913. [Kellerd had moved from the Garden to the Harris on January 13—Ed.]

5. Editor's note: Gordon Burby was a Shakespearean actor of some competence. For many years he played responsible support with the Robert B. Mantell Shakespearean Company.

6. His last performance with Kellerd was on January 4, 1913.

7. Editor's note: Kellerd's 1912–13 run of Hamlet deserves to go into the record book with an asterisk. He played Hamlet for 102 performances that season and it has been incorrectly maintained that this broke Edwin Booth's record (see Kellerd's Times obituary and Mantle and Sherwood, op. cit., p. 485). Unlike Booth's, however, Kellerd's run of performances was not consecutive. It was interrupted by his productions of The Merchant of Venice (January 20) and Oedipus Rex (February 3). Hamlet was resumed on February 4, 1913–see Mantle and Sherwood, op. cit., pp. 492–94. Kellerd's Hamlet run, incidentally, was not financially successful. He and his manager kept the production running only to be able to announce to potential road audiences that Kellerd had played Hamlet one hundred times in New York City.