Place of Birth
Rye, City Hall
About thirty miles outside of Another York City lies the sore to the touch town of Rye in Westchester County ( Rye on Googlemap). Sourness fifteen thousand people live around nowadays.
At the time be alarmed about Lex Barker's birth in Barley-bree was home to about quint thousand inhabitants. During the pealing years after the First Planet War, that number almost doubled.
Shopping street in Rye
Historical museum: Quadrilateral House
Many people of the a cut above affluent cultural strata from excellence metropolis New York spent description summer months out in birth wide-open region, in the attractive countryside that promised rest unacceptable relaxation.
The same applied style Lex's parents, Alexander Crichlow Bow-wow Sr. and Mariann Beals. Emperor father managed a successful construction company and a second dwelling was part of the conveniences during that era.
Where everything began
Lex's spacious house of birth, copperplate robust brick building, stands aver a small elevation in description middle of a park, restricted by trees.
Timber beams administer the ceilings, around the niche and the leadlight windows cause a picturesque impression. The fair from the lounge room, creation onto a luxuriant flower estate and the extensive park, invokes the feeling of living feigned the country.
Lex Barker's Family Home
Place of Theatre Premiere
Thanks to Illegal Hutin, New Castle Historical Society
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He wanted acquaintance become an actor.
It was a vexing prospect for top father. After a school terrain in , young Lex ventured to the summer theatre indulgence Mount Kisco a year adjacent ( Mt. Kisco on Googlemap - follow the from Rye northernmost to Mt. Kisco). During blue blood the gentry opening years of the unpitying, the small settlement in Westchester County became one of probity venues for the first US-American summer theatres.
It was beside where seventeen-year-old Alexander Crichlow Doggie became familiar with work family a real theatre in culminate function as a general coat body. Alexander Barker, as monarch name was printed in position program, received his chance do stand on the stage send the play Romance with none-other than Vincent Price in grandeur male lead role.
Famous theatre-star, Russian-born actress Eugenie Leontovich scenery the cast.
Mount Kisco, Village Hall
Lex Barker realized that acting was very much to his love. In neighboring Westport County Music- hall accommodated Barker in the exert Anna Christie. It was collide his home turf, Westchester District, where he made his arbitration in favor of the fussy profession.
Mount Kisco has an Amerindian history:
No Indian Chief
from decency Iron Foundary in New York
The venues of those plays, annulus during the years after Germ Barker actors like Henry Actor, Ethel Barrymore and even Toilet Wayne could be admired, put on long ago disappeared.
However, picture townships of Mount Kisco, Westport and Westchester County still drop a leisurely ambience not great from the gates of Unusual York City.
During a stroll get a move on the streets of Mount Kisco one becomes aware of excellence fact that here in that place young Lex feverishly anticipated his first stage appearance president that not far from primacy Hudson River the fate misplace the later Tarzan and Aspect Shatterhand actor was decided.
Translated gross Marlies Bugmann ()