BARRETT, LAWRENCE ( 1S3S-91 ) An Ameri can actor, born at Paterson, N. J. For a time he worked in a dry-goods shop at Detroit, Mich., and in that city, in 1853, as Murad in The French. Spy, made his first stage appearance. In 1857 58, at New York and Boston. he supported Booth, E. L. Davenport, and other players. In 1861 he enlisted in the Federal Army as captain in the Twenty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Subsequently he became the leading member of Edwin Booth's company during a remarkable series of performances at the Winter Garden, New York City. For several years he managed, with heavy pecuniary loss, the Varieties Theatre, New Orleans, La., but in 1809-70 won brilliant artistic and financial suc cess as en-partner with John McCullough of the California Theatre, San Francisco. At Booth's Theatre, New York City, he appeared in 1875 as Cassius and the King, in magnificent revivals of Julius Ca'sar and King Lear. In
1884 he Wa s favorably received during a brief visit to England. From 1SS7 until his death, he was associated with Edwin Booth in one of the most significant enterprises in the history of the American drama. His greatest part was that of Cassius; but he was likewise highly effective as Hamlet, King Lear, Shylo•k, Richelieu, Lanciotto, and the Man o' Airlie. In general, it may be said that his work was marked by fine conscientious ness and high intellectual force, although not credited by the critics with the touch of dis tinctive genius displayed by his co-worker, Booth. Ile was an energetic manager, did much to en courage dramatic authorship. and wrote a dis criminating and very readable Life of Edwin Forrest (188] ).