BARRYMORE, GEORGIANA DREW

(1856-1893)

   The daughter of John and Louisa Lane (Mrs. John) Drew, Georgiana Drew spent her formative years as an actress at her mother's Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia. When she made her New York debut at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in 1876 in Arnold Daly's Pique, she costarred with Maurice Barrymore and married him later that year. Admired for her charm in comedy roles, she played opposite William H. Crane in The Senator (1889) and appeared with Frohman's Comedians in Mr. Wilkinson's Widows (1891), Settled out of Court (1892), and The Sportsman (1893). Barrymore also acted in her husband's play, Nadjezda (1884), and appeared in Jack (1887), Balloon (1890), and The Woman of the World (1890). Her early death ended a promising career, but she gave birth to three dynamic stage personalities of the next generation, Lionel, Ethel, and John Barrymore.