Rose Eytinge

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Rose Eytinge (1838-1911) was an American actress and author, born in Philadelphia. From 1862 to 1869 she played in various theatres in New York City and then went abroad with her second husband, Col. George H. Butler, Consul General to Egypt. On her return thence in 1871 she took the rôle of Cleopatra at the Broadway Theatre, to the Antony of Frederick B. Warde. 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 adaptations of Dicken's Oliver Twist and Dombey and Son, Browning's Colombe's Birthday, her personal Recollections, published serially, and Memories (1905).

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

[edit] Publications

• Clapp and Edgett, Players of the Present (Dunlap Society, New York, 1899)
• Winter, The Wallet of Time (New York, 1913)

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.