National Republican., 1877-07-12
ANNA BOYLE'S TRIUMPH.
She is Pronounced by DR. Wallis to be the
Most Beautiful and Fascinating Juliet OF
the Age

She Is Pronounced by DIR. Wallis to be the
Most Beautiful and Fascinating Juliet Of
the Age.
From he Nt,g York 7t,oprdm, J,dy7. ls77.
The veteran DR.. Wallis, of tho New York
Herald writes from Cliiwood near Keyport, n.
j., July 0, 1877:
We have had an evening entertainment at this
summer house in the hills Of New Jersey, which
before the lapse OF many days, will make sensa.
ton In Gotham; on t9S might OF M ~ y, we had
grounds around 1t that the SOLITARY hOrscmnn'
passing along on the highroad below naturally
supposed It to be the lighting up for some grand
Chinese festival
On the night OF the 5th when "all is quiet on the
Potomac" we had at this house an improvised per-
formance of Romeo and Juliet or rather of sew
eral Of the most striking scenes In the play, and
the Juliet OF the occasion IL the party and her
rendering OF the character Il the event which. be-
fore the lapse Of many weeks will give a new
sensation TO Gotham group Of strangers To your
historian had dropped in u ,lhwood to escape the
terrOr Of the Chinese rlorihcann of the ingloriOus
Fourth In the city. and To enjoy the day quietly
with some friends s0journing here Conspicuous
in this group Of strangers, from her brightness
beauty, and blended childish innocence and
womanly intelligence, was little girl of fourteen
summers She had spent the day with some other
girls Of her age in swinging and boating, and In
chasing the butterflies and climbing the cherry
trees the day during the evening of which she was
TO give the guests Of the house and their friends
from the nelghbOrhoOd her rendering Of the beau
tiful character Of ShakspeArcs Juliet.
THE PERFORMANCE.
In the evening, the main parlor having been
fitted up for the occasion with stage, balcony and
auditorium, the young lady. Miss Anna Boyle, of
Washington, D. G., with Walter TTeVille as Romeo,
made her first. though we hope not her last APP
pearance Juliet In these parts. She gave us the
balcony scene and the scene in which her gnTru-
lous nurse informs her Of the death Of TybGlt and
| the Punishment Of Romeo, and the scene in which
the dcSpairng girl debates with herself the dangers
and pruba bile terrors Of the sleeping drRught re.
| ceiyed from the sympathiZlng Friar laurence and
in each Of the situations she Is really wonderful
| She was brought out on the stage on the 3lst ni
| May, at Washington, In her iirst and only public
| representation Of Juliet so far. and from the en-.
thusastic notices Of this performance given by the
| Newspaper How In other journals East and West
we are prepared for All excellent rendering of this
| Beautiful but delicate and difficult character
| ShakcspeaTcs Italian wOmanly Juliet Of fourteen
| come iammas Eve We dare say however, that
| not from the first performance of this sublime
tragedy over two hundred years ago, has there Rp-
| pcarud upon any stage, in any country, n girl Of
| ShHkcsEearcs Juliet rs this Wahington's girl OF
| fourteen summers this little opening rosebud OF q
| woman, Anna Boyle.
FONTS OF ENCELLESCE.
She Is not an infant prodigy; she Is not a juye'
prematurely from tho forcing process. There f
nothing In her representation suggestive OF the
child mechanically pOrtraying passions and emo
tons which only woman can understand On th'
contrary this young girl iHhss her genius for thu
stage-it runs In the family, as they say-and care
| fil study, under compstent teacher, has dc
| velOped into harmonious proportions her hgi
natural gins as an actress As girl OF fourteen
she Is rather below than above the average height