The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-11-25

Our theatrical astronomers are as much at
fault as Professor LOOMS was about the mete-
ORIG shower, for they have failed to predict the
new transit Of Venus which Is to occur next
week. On Monday evening, November 80,
Mrs. Scott-Siddons will make her appearance
at the New York theatre During the six
nights Of her first engagement this gifted and
accomplished young lady will have ample op-
portunity to manifest her dramatic versatility
and power as RosaIind in Gas You Like 1t"
az Lady Teazle in ''The School for Scandal"
as Julia in the ''Hunchback" and as Pauline in
''The Lady of Lyons" We are confident that
she will justify the encomlums lavished by the
London press upon her representations at the
Haymarket of Beatrice in s'Much Ado About
Nothing" and Of Juliet in "Romeo and Jul
liet, as well as OF Rosalind in ''As You Like
It,"
When we first bad the pleasure of seeing
Mrs. Scott-Siddons we were struck by her re-
markable resemblance to Mrs. Fanny Kemble,
as that distinguished lady looked when she
paid her earliest visit to this country We are
not surprised that Mrs. Fanny Kemble has
heartily recognized in Mrs. Scott-Siddons her
kinship by nature and by genius. When we
heard Mrs. Scott-Siddons read and recite we
felt convinced that to her faultless el0cution,
her clear, ringing voice, her flowing tresses,
her brilliant and expressive eyes, her beautiful
face, her graceful form and her perfect natu-
ralness of manner she must superadd no small
measure OF hereditary genius as an actress.
This great-granddaughter of the famous Eng
lish tr0ged5eaaee merits far more than the
title which she won in grlhood-
'sMrs. Siddons in miniature With the
tragic talent already evinced by her Mrs.
Scott-Siddons unites an archness which her
celebrated ancestress altogether lacked. Thus
she bids fair to excel both in comedy and
tragedy She would admirably grace the
boards at Mr.. Booths splendid new theatre
But the bird is of more Importance than the
cage in which it sings, and in whatever theatre
Mrs. ScOtt-Siddons may appear she will be en-
Enthusiastically applauded. Even the cold east
wipds of Boston could not prevent the inhab-
itants of that trimountain city, 1.-THE Hub,
from warming into raptures over her superior
acting. With the traditional weakness for tea
which has characterized them ever since the
memorable Boston Tea Party of Revolutionary
days, the Bostonans have testified as strongly
as they possibly could their admiration for Mrs
Scott Siddons by presenting her with ele
giant silver tea service. Miss Olive Logan
herself, notwithstanding her own riieful ex-
perience and righteous indignation, must now
admit that Boston ice may sometimes melt.
Mrs. Scott-Sddons received her early edn-
cation in Germany, and it was her striking
performance, when she was but eleven years
of age, of the part of Esther, in the French
play bearing that title, and of the youth Morti-
mer, in Schiller's 'sMarie Stuart" and of seve-
raj characters in other French and German
plays, that induced one of her teachers to con-
suit Mr.. Charles Kean as to the desirability OF
her being educated for the stage. After years
Of conscientious study and of no inconsidcra-
BILE experience she now appears upon the
pears at an opportune moment, when an inev
table reaction is beginning against the sensa-
tional and spectacular drama, with its cent?
pedal ''Black Crook" nudities its railway
smashes and its steamboat explosions, and
even against the opfra bou6t, which, with it's
gorgeous scenery, its seductive music and its
hilarious nonsense, at present reigns almost
supreme.