What is "betterton"

Usage examples of "betterton".

She met young Betterton, but Bayne did not interfere, only keeping well out of sight.

For instance, the cane which struck young Betterton is at least a very material object.

For he would be sure to think, as Betterton had suggested, that only a whore could have written it.

It was that talent that Betterton had seen in the play she had given him, and that, he was sure, would make her future plays worth staging.

For the last few minutes she had watched him, fascinated, as he had rivalled Betterton himself in giving vent to his rage.

Even more astonished to find on the first page that the leading character was the self-same Lackwit whom he had seen Betterton impersonating on the stage of the Duke's Theatre.

It will not trouble me to retire from acting--when I have finished my current contract with Betterton, that is.

Coming here after having just left his clean, pretty wife in the serene little house on Betterton Street was jarring.

That, too, doubtless applied to the newcomer, Betterton, whereas to himself, about whom Mrs.

A man, Betterton, who made his money in rubber, left his whole estate to Challenger some years ago, with the provision that it should be used in the interests of science.

The history of Shakespear's tragedies has thus been the history of a long line of famous actors, from Burbage and Betterton to Forbes Robertson.