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Who was Maurice Barrymore?

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The first actor of the name was Maurice Barrymore, 1847-1905, b. Agra, India. His original name was Herbert Blythe. He graduated from Cambridge, took a law degree, but renounced law for the stage. After appearing in the provinces in England he went to the United States (1875) and joined Augustin Daly 's company, making his first appearance in Daly's melodrama, Under the Gaslight.

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