, 1876-11-12
THE DRAMA.


DEBUT OF NARY ANDERSON.
The first public appearance Of Miss Anderson
in this city will occur tomorrow night at Nc
Vickcr's Theatre. She will assume the charae
ter of Eaadne. The event is one of considerable
importance in dramatic sense, aud We view il
as such, rather than with any reference to its
bearings on the good or i'll fortunes Of the dc
butantc. There is not now on the American
stage woman who fills, or begins to fill, the
position to which Miss Anderson Inspires. Clara
Morris is an exponent Of what is known, in the
technical slang, as the emotional drama; and
even In this field her efforts are ham.
pered by continued ll-health, which prom
iscs at no distant day to close
prematurely her stage career. Rose Eytinge,
whom we consider in her department the best
living American actress, is past the age at which
juvenile tragedy is for her possibility. Fannie
Davenport, who can act sometimes in modern
society comedy, does not claim to be adapted
for tragedy. Miss Anderson makes this claim.
She attempts the whole range of tragedy short
of the heroic creations, like Lady 4NacbeA. Hcr
iHcq .ne7rilies has been in some cities, the part
in which she was most admired, and in this she
had not the advantages Of youth and beauty to
assist her, but had them rather to struggle
against. Elsewhere she has played only num-
ber ol PARIS eucu ~ sss Iss@@,se, % "N. asn+;i
1l*a' III ien ,.t;tha,,t tx comn1amnnt of tr,,e
put useless "1enoo' 'ao 0A - ~09
traS,c powcI. 4a,-., INV ;rto-.,+ :, tho e+ooo
S4 4e3 ;n1r wnu r;eh ;ntoycst The londahle ambi
cn la & " W" arsa, M, ~ -, ;sh her s,,ccess
Her SUCCESS is to be desired, not so much for her
oWh saheas io1 s..sv, ;,n+ .no shn hos genus
III araalc III - ne,, ,nss;S;1it;os
a1lu so"s ~; sne 80 'FIf r. sbn - "dn nacinntinns
on tne Ans1ael e..S 80 7,.,, - ren;ue se nav
ana lnuustlaoIs, 4Iiar ~, -snarForv nf,vs wh;s
prlng pun & ~ e LIZ 4* hnn;shod fnr E,pt nf rom.
. nase ossn a,taxe .oI - ranrascnt them. she NAV
peten,t; p,;eb aeso'n 1~ " schnol If artinr or revive
90 n1I nne sht may pathcr abouf her num-
per u ~ safssJ ar tn s"narnte more s.
PUTTY tne pstehiIo ~ nort5on nf # from the
ltesy tnS Si,o mt hccnme n leader nf
.ls!p,t o,,i h1 1cr rctng rnVivify the Amer
; ,,'a 1b;c1, frst oaTc sirns If life un{lcr
IGau ut:hn:s "n.e.A as ~ af Eorr5st She nav io
snc m III =; thcsc th;ncs.if she l,as Genius
, ~ eooe.ence r wnu1d he extraraoaut 10 saw
4lo+ shn vii tlo them. for we have as vet had
~ ,,,anns # ;,,7e;np what hcr ability nav be,
The nrobo6jlitv IS. q course, that We shall be
dissnpo;nted. dns Pretcnsions SO great are seldom
ulsapHeheS: sapIHehaS :, snlid work Ruf the fact that
10 nretensinns are made. and that competent
49, snS - ~. fnnnd to allow them, eives rnusual
ut%sset 3uut -, thn fehut nj Miss Anderson in this
~, aitsAee' ~ ''40
3t:hot her friends sar of her NAV not be bad
~o,a;ne at this ti,ne. A pentlcman from Louis
lila ,Eho o1n7;ts h,;nr i nrniudiced witness,
,,.r;t.e as f,nws. Sir was horn july %, 1859,
At Sacrau1cnto, Cal, and is now consequently
:, ~ h1r eichtcr,'tf, year. Her family OCCUPIES q
~ w o ,rhat !: .aiicd The hest society and
posltlGn -; -, ,, -,o",,narv c;rrnm stances There
sue 10 III GAs{ ,pe-,;1..5 psu5 ,,.son +ha Stare Shn