The foremost horse that runs so fast away,
It is our time while here our race we run,
The black and white personify night and day
Who after haste until the goal be won,
And leave us not but follow from our birth
Until we yield and turn again to earth.
— Geoffrey Whitman.
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STfART ROBSON.
Born. March 4. iS,l6.
Died, April 29, 1903.
March 1 John B. Maher

JOHN B. MAHER occupies a conspicuously prominent place in the stock-
company world as an actor of light comedy and character roles, and his

services are constantly in demand in this branch of the amusement field,
he having gained a repertoire of over four hundred roles during his career.
A native of Baltimore, Md., Mr. Maher was an active participant in amateur
theatricals in the Monumental City for several years. He finally determined
to become a professional player, and, after a year or two of novitiate expe-
rience, he made quite a hit, the season of 1896-97, in the support of E. M.
