Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-03
MARY ANDERSON.

Sketch of the Lifo Of This FamO Actress. |
There never came to st. Paul q lady in
whom the public curiosity was SO thoroughly
aroused as Mary Anderson. Spoken of
everywhere as the most beautiful woman
upon the stage-her eyes, her hair, her lips,
her neck, her queenly form, her imperial
height, her voice, her every gesture, have all
been themes for lavish praise and extrava-
CANT enconiums. This alone would be suffi-
Gent to awaken an interest in her, but to her
personal charms, dwelt upon lngeringly, the
critics had crowned her as the queen of
the stage. But the immense audiences
who attended her performances here would
doubtless not be q little interested to know
something further of this gifted lady than
the critic and the stage have told. Antici-
most pleasurable interview, gathered the
following:
Miss Anderson was born at Sacramento,
California, on the twenty eighth of July,
1859, While she was still child her par
ents removed to Louisville, where Mary
commenced her education, attending first
the convent school, and afterward the acade-
my. During her school days she developed
strong proclivities for the histrionic art.
Meantime her father HAD died and her moth
er had married DR.. Griffith. This gentle
men, peroeiving the unusual gifts Mary pos
sessed for the stage removed her from school
at the age of fourteen, when commenced her
training for her subsequent calling. For q
month or two she studied elocution under
MI. Butler. the author of general gram
NAUTICAL works. At fifteen she commenced
series of lessons from George Vanderbilt,
Esq, of New York. That gentleman e1-
pressing the opinion that his young
pupil would one day hold a place
upon the stage never before attained by an
American artist. A year after-at the age of
sixteen, Nov. q, 1875, the young debutante
made her appearance at McCaulay's theatre,
Louisville, in the difficult role of Juliet -
but in this instance the proverb relating to q
prophet and his own country, was not veri-
fed, for the large audience attending were
enraptured and the management was en-
thusiastic, offering the young unsophisticated
American girl the same terms as those Of
fered to Barrett at the same house. There
is no success like success and from that day
forth Mary Anderson has played to none but
large and appreciative audiences and where
ever she has gone throughout the length and
breadth of the land she has received moth
ing but the warmest encouragement bott
from the press and the people. She is nov
playing for the third season and in those q
months she has played some 700 times, al
ways appearing in some of tho grand ole
dramas written before the playwright had Il
depend upon the costumer, the carpente
and scenic artist for the success of his work
OFF the stage Miss Anderson is as super1
in her natural attractions as upon the board
and her beautifully chiselled features ar
seen to much better advantage. Platter
and adulation have not yet spoiled her, an,
her simple, unaffected, fresh, but womanl
bearing win at once the way to universe
favor. She inheritst her glorious beauty an
enchanting voice from her mother, who is
lady of noble presence and cultured bearing
Her ancestry, it is believed, on the father
} | side is of Scottish extraction.