VEZIN, Hermann, actor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 29 March, 1829. He was intended for the bar by his father, a German-American merchant of Philadelphia, and was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1847. Desiring to follow the stage, he went to England, and, after some preparation, obtained, through the recommendation of Charles Kean, an engagement at a theatre in York. He appeared in London under Kean's management in 1852, and two years later played principal parts in a tour through Great Britain. He visited the United States in 1857-'8; but his style of acting was not popular. Returning to England in 1859, he played Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King John, Louis XI., and Shylock in 1859. After his marriage to Mrs. Charles Young in 1863, he travelled with his wife, and in the following year they produced Westland Marston's comedy of "Donna Diana "at the Princess's theatre, London. He was successful in "The Man o' Airlie," " The Rightful Heir," "Life for Life," and various comedies, new and old, and in 1875 added greatly to his reputation by his rendering of Jacques in "As You Like It." On 4 February, 1876, he played Macbeth at Drury Lane theatre for the benefit of the Philadelphia centennial exhibition, and subsequently he played Dan'l Druce in William S. Gilbert's drama of that name, created the part De Talde in "The Danicheffs" and Schelm in " Russia" in 1877, and was successful in the characters of Sir Giles Overreach, the Duke of Alva in "Fatherland," and Iago in a revival of "Othello" in March, 1878. In 1885 he played the Shepherd in an open-air representation of John Fletcher's "Faithful Shepherdess."