Rose Eytinge

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Eytinge was born November 21, 1835{{cite news |title=Rose Eytinge is Dead at 76|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1911-12-21/ed-1/seq-9/|work=The New York Sun |date=December 21, 1911|page=9}} in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.{{cite book |last=Clapp |first=John B. |title=Players of the Present |url=https://archive.org/details/playerspresent00edgegoog |accessdate=January 19, 2013 |year=1899 |publisher=B.Franklin |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/playerspresent00edgegoog/page/n459 387]–388}} She began on the amateur stage at 17 and soon was invited to join a professional touring company.

Her professional debut was on stage at the Olympic Theatre. She performed with Edwin Booth in "The Fool's Revenge". With Booth and others, she toured Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.. President Abraham Lincoln attended her performances and she was invited to the White House.

In 1855, she married the newspaperman and author David M. Barnes (1820-1900),{{cite news|title=David M Barnes|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1900/06/21/102436230.pdf|accessdate=8 January 2015|work=The New York Times|date=21 June 1900}} but was divorced in 1862. They had one daughter, Rose Courtney, an actress who married actor John T. Raymond.{{cite book |last=Reddall |first=Henry Frederic |title=Fact, Fancy, and Fable |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7E4yAQAAMAAJ&q=%22courtney+barnes%22+eytinge |accessdate=January 21, 2013 |year=1892 |publisher=A. C. McClurg |page=445 }} Her niece, Pearl Eytinge, was also an actress.[http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/atho/atho.detail.people.aspx?personcode=per0061121 Pearl Eytinge: North American Theatre Online]

{{cite web |title=Pearl Eytinge |url=https://broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/pearl-eytinge |website=Broadway Photographs |accessdate=February 11, 2020}}

In 1869, she married Colonel George H. Butler, U. S. Consul General to Egypt.{{cite book |last=Young |first=William C. |title=Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage, Vol.1 |url=https://archive.org/details/famousactorsactr00youn/page/346 |year=1975 |publisher=R. R. Bowker |location=New York |isbn=0835208214 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/famousactorsactr00youn/page/346 346–348] |url-access=registration }} They lived abroad for two years and Eytinge took a break from performing. They had two children: a daughter, Florence (b. 1875) married Dr. Walsh, and a son, Benjamin Franklin Butler (1871-1904), a newspaper artist, who was the roommate of young John Barrymore and married to actress Alice Johnson. Due to Butler's abusive behavior and infidelities, Eytinge sued for divorce in 1882.{{cite news| title =Rose Eytinge's Divorce| newspaper =New York Times| date =March 26, 1882| url =https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1882/03/26/103409779.pdf| accessdate =January 21, 2013}}The 1882 divorce from Butler was a "degree of absolute divorce" in the Supreme Court, Special Term. She and Butler must have divorced earlier because she remarried to Cyril Searle in 1880. Also Butler remarried secretly in 1880 to Josephine Chesney confirming the status of an earlier divorce date.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

Eytinge returned to New York to resume her career with the Union Square Theatre Company. It was at this time that she played one of her most famous roles, Shakespeare's "Cleopatra" for which she drew on her Egyptian experiences.

In 1880, she married the actor Cyril Searle, but they were separated four years later. She gave her last performance in 1907.

Among her principal later parts were Nancy Sykes in Oliver Twist, Gervaise in Drink, Ophelia to the Hamlet of E. L. Davenport, and Desdemona with James W. Wallack as Othello and Davenport as Iago.

Her literary works include the novel It Happened This Way (with S. Ada Fisher), the play Golden Chains, and adaptations of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Browning's Colombe's Birthday.{{cite book|author1=Walter Browne|author2=Fredrick Arnold Austin|title=Who's who on the Stage: The Dramatic Reference Book and Biographical Dictionary of the Theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xIoXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA90|year=1906|publisher=W. Browne & F. A. Austin|pages=90–}}{{cite encyclopedia |editor1=Gilman, D. C. |editor2=Thurston, H. T. |editor3=Moore, F. |encyclopedia=The New International Encyclopedia |edition=1st |year=1905 |publisher=New York: Dodd, Mead and Co |volume=VII |pages=403 }} Her personal memoirs were published in 1905.

Eytinge died of a stroke on December 20, 1911, at the Brunswick Home of Amityville, New York, where she was supported by the Actors Fund of America. Her body was sent to Washington for burial.

• The Fool's Revenge as Fiordelisa (1864)
• Griffith Gaunt as Katherine Peyton (1866)
• Under the Gaslight as Laura Courtlandt (1867)
• Led Astray as Armande (1873)
• The Two Orphans as Marianne (1874)
• Rose Michel (in title role) (1875)

• {{cite book|title=It Happened This Way|year=1890|first1=Rose|last1=Eyting|first2=S. Ada|last2=Fisher|publisher=United States Book Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wnN4YkA1H9QC}}
• {{cite book|title=The Memories of Rose Eytinge|year=1905|first=Rose|last=Eyting|publisher= Frederick A. Stokes Company|url=https://archive.org/details/memoriesofroseey00eyti}}

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• {{IBDB name|39876}}
• [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=rose+eytinge Rose Eytinge] on the NYPL Digital Gallery
• [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/02/25/100353404.pdf Rose Eytinge's Reminiscences of Distinguished Men] from The New York Times, February 25, 1912

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