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Death of and, actor.

--Durivage — the once popular actor and dramatist, Oliver Everett Durivage, brother to the well known poet of the same name, and son to a sister of the Hon. Edward Everett, died at Memphis, Tenn., on the 22d inst. He entered the histrionic profession at once as an author and actor personating a character in a play written by himself at the early age of sixteen. As an actor he was known over the States, and as an author, leaves a number of plays behind, the three most prominent of which have been the Stage Struck Yankee, Cut and Come Again, and the Lady of the Lions.

The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. February 26, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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