The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-08-24
THE DEAD ACTRESS.
4 Touching Incident OF Her Last
Visit to St. Louis.

Vt0It 10 III LOUIE
Sps--sal 20 tia. Chronicle.
Chicago, Aug. l6'-The feeling
aroused here by cable announcement
Of the death Of Adelaide Nelson. the
actress, is one Of general sorrow, her
popularity being great aud her personal
friends numerous in this city. The
newspapers pay feeling tributes to her
attractive qualities.
THE FEELING IN ct. LOUIS.
The feeling in st. Louis aroused by
the news of Miss Nelson's death was
one Of general sadness and regret.
A leading critic aud writer. asked to
say something upon the sad event.
contributes the following. which ex.
presses well the public feeling here
and at the same time pays just
tribute to the actress wonderful
gifts.
1T is not too much Ia say that the
announcement of Miss Nelson's death
shucks the whole dramatic world.
Those who have witnessed her incom-
parable impersonalions will deeply
lament an event which renders u re-
petition Of that exquisite pleasure
forever impossible. Those who have
never enjoyed that pleasure NAV well
lament. even more deeply. what is tn
them. indeed, An irreparable loss.
The finest Shakespearian actress. not
only Of our age, but Of any age. has
made her final adienx and gone down
To darkness and the worm. The
black curtain has fallen upon a long,
yet tar too short, series of triumphs
which. highly as they were appreciated
when their heroine was living. will
he far more highly appreciated now
tina, she is dead.
The Shakespearian fame ri Sa-ah
Sid.lons rests solely upon her Lady
Macbeth. The hakespenrian lame
Of Adelaide Nelson rests upon broader,
If not better, foundation upon Juliet.
Viola, lmogen. Isabella AMI Rosa
lind. In tins range Of characters she
never has hal, and We believe never
will have, rival near the throne.
She is the only woman vino has seemed
to have an instructive and thorough
knowledge Of Shakespeare's noblest
women. She did not act them she
was them. she threw her whole
soul into these splendid creatures,
and it may be said that she re-created
them for certainly until her DAY
they ne> er lived and breathed and
burned upon the stage. There have
been other Juliets. Violas, imogens.
Isabellas and Ro-alinds; but the
best OF them we're Poor and weak
with hers. Mentally and
physically she was prominently fitted
for her task, and her rare equipment
in brain and beauty was supple
mented by an indomitable energy
worth the strongest masculine nature.
She always played up to the full
extent Of her powers; always did all
she could dO-and then was dissatis-
fed because her grandest efforts fell
short of her ideal. The threadbare
quotation is peculiarly applicable in
This case Take her for all-in-sli.
We shall not look upon her like again.
Miss Nelson's sudden death was
not entirely unexpected to her friends.
10 one Of them she remarked. on her
last visit to st. Louis, that she was
rapidly wearing out through the
tremendous strain upon her nervous
system. and must leave the stage,
rcry soon or risk q complete break |
Town.. Her physicians had so adj
Vised, and her Own sensations con
irmed their opinion. The last season |
n America taxed her failing strength |
,eyOnd its limits, and more than !
nee, she said, she would gladly have
lived up the profits Of a two weeks
Engagement for single nights rest
That such . matches artistic should
'erish in her prime. leaving no success
or. is nothing less than a public
HER LAST APPEARANCE HERE.
1t will be remembered that Miss
Nelson played q farewell engagement
{ Two weeks in January last in this
ity. She drew crowded houses, and
layed in some eight or nine different
laya. 1t was her regular custom u
ppear only at the Olympic thearer.
ut she dill once play an engagement
18th Ben De Bar. Subsequent 10
er regular engagement this year she
layed . supplementary engagement,
, st. Louis late in March. appear
q for Eve nights add q matinee.
Was then generally believed that {
,e engagement was fiosl one, and
,e attendance vas immense. Her
'cepiion at the Saturday matinee.
hen Shakespeare Twelfth Night" I
as presented, was q regular ovation,
I'd the attendance Of the highest
'cial representatives, amounted to
most . crush. On the same night
Ie appeared n julia in THE Hunch- 4
,ck. and this must stand forever a. =
u last appearance in 81. Louis. 1t a