, 1876-11-19
Advent Of the Kellogg Opera Troupe
First Weeks Programme:
/ Multitude Of Conversational Miscel.
Iany-.-0peratic Notes at Home
and Abroad.
THE DRAMA.


OWL youth and lnexpereDce. The rerT uneven
ness which constitutes one Of her chief defects
should be warning to critics how they hastily
form conclusions concerning her, There is .
wide range between the worst passages of hc1
.Iuia ard the best Of her Eradne, and within the
limits Of one plsy she is often good and often
bad. The serious question to be considered in q
rericw OF her acting is: '"Docs she give prom
ise?" We think the answer must be inyariably,
vhcn an honest judgment is given, that she
does. Her worst play contains some art that no
actress in America would be ashamed to
acknowledge. She almost failed in Juliet
Friday night, but in the potion
scene it would not be unlind
to compare her with Adelaide Nelson Her
performance, as whole, it may be inferred from
common report, was not inferior to TINT Of Sara
Jewett at New York, was probably far superior
in the last two acts. Yet Sara Jewett is consid-
cred IN actress. Miss Anderson, it should be
remembered also, is immeasurably superior in
the exhibition of intense emotion to such artists
IS Miss Kate Claxton and Miss JefIreys-LeWis.
She is crude, but SO is Clara Morris at times
crude. She is occasionally hard and unreal, but
so is Rose Estinge- She has defects Of utter
ance, but SO has Janauschek.
II we have instituted comparisons Of this na~
ture, it is not with purpose to assai any repu-
tations, but to show that Miss Anderson
can be viewed By the side Of the
leading actresses now on the American
stage without injury to herself. The
more she is viewed in this relation the
better she appears. Her merits become con-
spicuous. As compared with any Of the ladcs
mentioned, excepting Miss Nelson, she is more
richly endowed Ill the graccs Of person. She
has better voice than any OF them. She is the
anupodes Of Rose Evtinge, feeling what she
knows not how to express, while that charming
actress commonly expresses what she does not
feel Her art is less than that OF Morris or
Janauschek, but her nature is more. Of the
other persons mentioned, not one could stand q
trial with ler in u round of leading characters.
There are not three actresses in America who
can excel Miss Anderson in her own parts.
Then why should she be decried as unworthy
and possessed OF an ignoble ambition? Nothing
but genius could have placed her where
she is; and genius is not thing to rail at. Let
those who cry out ou her crudeness specify when,
and where, aud i'll what respect, she is crude.
Then II sue 1nends not, aud if the criticism is
correct, condemn her. But let her be treated
with ct least US much tenderness as the s'boy-
tragcdian was. Some who called him genius
thlAk Miss Anderson ought to 60 into stock
company, where she would he obliged to play
everything, from Lady -Vdc5eM to Atr. Daly's
4ata lfe7yTesr. But the boy. oh where is lie?
1I 11e austee ~ no1 "Aois9 "roh5. re arc not OF
ouc,, +rn;n;,o j.; stn. ts poo, " lnt
SORT in Wlis the advice is eiycl1 Is not kind r.
i with a sort Of pooh-pooG air, and t.yery-
s3everfor-4u-aaiateur" I" tone Of depreciation.
1rr, .su.n ,. -, taat Miss Anoerson eau
inst as Sic ca,, c1s.w},nra - she 5s nen1;%aI.+ ~
conrcitcd; bnt there is no reason Wi'y she
should not turn out well in her present capacity
sne FcFseVeres and studies hard. She mas not !
fnr oS314 $r$e e. had 4
1prtmsnt .oi - foareo5, n1u ela1nlf IN Ient &C.
genius only for trsor5r-and i,;rh tr,gn5v 5 "a a.
lnat, The circumstances in which she IS placed I
arc similar to those which marked the early
Eft Sa1 IT, u sa!an slodons. lhat eminent actress
cirynt nc rea,lar,r 10 to,,,i 10: sha III S,a tne
limited reocrtory. and did not beoin viii small
parts in order to learn how to PLAY greater ones.
CUE hao her debut to make in London. us Miss
" us'n a. IN aas & aers to maze IN New iork; but
tIsys snonra, o =. .t's .nc ag pgslnees IL 'uGse
came hack to them with metronoIitan rcnnta-
ton. Miss Anderson tannot play tender parts;
ncllher could Mrs. Siddons. Jultet was as unat-
5unaole 11r her as it seems to be for Miss An
Gerson. let she succeeded. So, We are conf |
1ent, Will Miss Anderson succeed. Not with
1he : success Of Sarah Siddons,-to say that would
ye aulacity unparalleled, but with q success
1hat WILL give her place in dramatic history.
MARY ANDERSON AS JULIET.
rin TrT3 ,in1,f. |
The 1a.e+ s,+;.r.r.s.. ~ ,.e- ' -1.y "A7
.s.s s. u her assu1npIlons mere,
ano yet 1t was tull Of promise. She missed ut
terly the spirit of the first three acts wanting
poise, precision, and self-abanionmcnt.
She seemed ,t t;,es rar,.r,-o,,,,- aoneo;o,,s ~
her o,rr 49, .aaes fe'l'ashaols CONSCIOUS u
~ o"n pctsonanty, and vague IN her
general expression OF the character. Tender
less she could faiutly express when her lorer
Sas not hy. h,1t in h;s nrosanco hor fondnaee
seemed tn ran;s1, 49, tnsa,,rs es s.,Lt,o
,rooo.- ~ ~ 7a ooi4se oupt4e
n'esss u e'aporatlon, so That bis fire, Which
mould have warmed her, merely dried her up.
:he missed points which it was surnrisinp that
wen noyire shon1d lovo oyo-,ool.ad - !, 10
ntorr;o~1 ,,:t,. .I' u'e4 go - , ~ ~
49,. e" ~, VIII 1lie -'1FSe "hen sue nrs1 lcarneu
uat HoH1eo was waiting for her at the Friar's
ell. She heard the news calmly, md went off
lie staye With a hurr;a1 and almost ;,or+;t,,la+o
nea,h +h,,. ,o.;-.. ~. 49, s:. -
a;oh. .n"s 1os.u5 'Ae 'e'5 nne eA. "Iien
..6o' na'e ocen ners' ehe was cool While the
17se was tantnlizing her, and in the cell at the |
aazriage was not To Roneo Ms loyine as
be shon1d h,ro hoo,, ,r1,ro,,rrhor+ +ho teh,r
shed J, scn,o s,,o 49, ,o,nr1otS1r - so. e. |
AS 1n,ro 3n-isaa ~ hoo. t.ot i5.,.. 49, as ,o
hei than W s.,,.as., w ~ ~ ~. 1aat, a..
,isscd arai ~. ., ,>;,,+ ,To~ad ~" l+ha a..as
hen ths - .aa |i Ea.,so All