Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-14
TON.
Gl ira Nmr.s at The Hub -Tne Rig
Scare She Had Three Years Ago
TAiking About TIleatricaIs-A
Voice that Came Near Extimguisii-
Ing the .Eur-famed one Of Annie
IOuise Cnry.


Voice that Came Near Extinguisl,-
Ing the c:Enr-tanied One Of Annie
Louise Cary.
Special Correspondence Of State Journal
BOSTON, Sept. ga decided event of
the season il that whom Clara Morris
comes to town II wA4 hul Il short time
ago--three years, think -timi This eeI,.
brdrd individual made her first trihmphal
"'ry INTO the Hub, nj tho Boston rhestra
AT "Onmi le. There wa. ~ y,rv bip
eN itcmeht over the mnitar aud ,qmlly
b'g HOUSES She herself hs,i u mp
scare. 80 dhe told nus. AT lohut s,ho was
terribly nfIaid uf Boston-s, awfully
critical Md cold hlouded yon knos-and
terribly mxlcus ae TO what impre sion she
"nnld iLhke II good, rhe cunal,inr.h
that that would settle it," Ii bad she
seemed to iink ihnt I'LL her pr' vinns sue
cesH"s would 90 for literally nothing, aud
hat Hhe should utterly sink nndar such
blow. Tint was what she told me, hut il
VIII he remembered that ii wls in the
course OF IN interview for Boston daily.
and possibly some OF 1t waH said for effect
Very possibly, indeed, | should think.
1t may have bean very true, ~ her
devoted Mr. Clara Morris sad, Tint he
didn't go to sleep the night after her first
appearance here, TIL the morning papers
bud been brought in. You know we have
such exceedingly eaustla md nnterritied
dramatic critics here
1t was doubtless true enough that she
remained in bed, without saying u loud
word, from the time she arrived IN Boston
till sie left it to go on the stage, for that
IL the ordinary routine of life of tins very
predetermined woman. remember asking
her husband how lie could let her remain
in such terribly trying life when she was
so i'll all the time. And no sal that
though she was i'll on the stage, she
couldn't possibly live OIL it, and that when
she was at home for few weeks at any
time, she had such dreadful spells of per-
vousness and hysteria.
| wonder whether she takes her medi
cine on the stage now, rs she used to do.
It was just bit comical, and no mistake.
haven't seen her yet, in this two weeks
engagement ut the Park, where she il
drawing the very biggest kinds of houses,
cramming that delightful little theatre AZ
full OF people as it eau possibly hold. Last
week she played "Cora" In "Arlicle Al, :"
and this week she is playing alike"
1t may be supposed that the ady's ex-
treme anxiety to please Boston has some
what moderated since her first visit here.
Or it may have increased, perhaps. The
former if her illues4 of a week ago Mon
day night was whim only. for Boston
badly hates TO be disappointed, and Boston
turned out en- ma sc on that opening night
of her Park engagement. We went with
fI9 fAli and nm nt lao 4,
were considerably discomposed to see one
throng OF people coming out as another
poured in. Such crowd of people that
can't get seets, we commented, and began
to think our own chances decidedly small.
Instead Of which, it WAS Immediately ex-
planned to us by the rather unhappy
agent, that Miss Morris is sick and can't
play, aud a $500 house is going straight
across the street to the globe, something
that never happened before in the history
OF this theatre .5.
And that is true enough, for if ever a
theatre deserved the regard of a never
disappointed public, il il the Park. How
ever, rs | said, Miss Morris appeared on
Tuesday night and hasa, failed since.
Everybody didn't 60 to the Globe that
night night, though. Az many as could
get into the cosy littla GHle,y went there
where there was quite an ovation that
night, every seat, even in the balcony
being filed 10y ''or best people. 1t was
only hY special courtesy that we ohtaintd Il
seats ut all, nnd that was at an unprrce.
dent,d distarca from the stuge. The
occasion was the first appearance ~
Mign0aGtte in 'Chimes of Normandy Of
Mrs. Ii. Il Ill. Garter, very bright.
black-eyed, local celebrity Of our own, in
company made up principally of Boston
tavoritee, with Mr.. Henry PeAkes in his
wonderful assumption of GaSpu2d, he
M&er.
Little Mrs. Carter made very bright
and pleasing little Nign0nttte, certainly,
and she III sure To mnke n big hit wher.
ever she phys il, fnr her acting nud
singing ARE equally good | had no ideo
she WAS such an actress, nor that she
could filrt so delightfully."- the stage.
She was quite smothered in flowers ion
among her most enthusiastic admirers
were many members of the profession vino
wore scattered through the house. That
torn, by the way, il far more inclusive
one than il ever used to be. What null
litude Of sins innocent "Pirafore" will
EHNt w bhNNtt lNE, u " Rb DU lilt bliiHN
be sin ! For what numberless com.
panics, half amateur, professional,
we're formed fer the performance OF that
jolly bit of nonsense and how few OF
them have considered themselves justified
in disbanding. since the immediate cause
of their forming has 'played" T" The
glamour Of tho foot lights is upon them
tempered by the mild gleam of unwonted
respectnbility which the "PinRfore" rage
shed upon all who sang in it, aud which
still protects thnm from the opprObrIum
that would, five years ago, have been more
or less shOwered upon them. In fact, il
is decidedly the fashion for young people
who can sing II note, to belong to some
light opera company, either public ol
private, and the latter generally graduate
| toto the former. ". .
Tho "Germaine" of the play, rs giveI
| by the company of which I've been speak
ing. ii tax by Mrs. Flora Barry, anothe,
Boston favDritr, hut whom I Ger ainll
never sG~ to such poor advantage before
She il charming il concert, but she IL vsr,
far ffo'n nu actress, and hns no tact nt al
III dfr.>ing Instead of appearing m,
;uGre ynulhtul than she IL, she actuGlt,
books h great deal Older, which, for III,
character, Is an uuquestioned mi-fOrtu ne
But she ioes sing beautifully. In hei
nrlas, her superb eoptralto voice WAS dis
played to the fiaeSt effect.
dOn't think II is generally known tina
Mts Barfy's voice cane very near ex
tingulshiug the magnificent one Of Arm
louise Cary. This wOrld.fan ed cUntrRlt,
was sistsr-iu.law Of Mrs. Barry's sem
years Ggo-it would never do to say hos
many and clme up to Boston from he
childhood home in Maine ia the hop
that she might be able to cultivate he
natural taste for music. She lived 70
some time in her brothers family, "help
ing" his wife with the housework-in fact
according to NY informant who knew al
the parties we'll Mt the time-duing th
most of it herself, and finding little tim
and less opportunity for music. II her
had been a soprano voice, it might hav
been different. But Just then the youu
and pretty Miss Gary singing bad b.
gun TO bring her into popular notice IN
favor, aud the feeling OF the husband an
wife may be imagined when they di-
covered that so dangerous rival wa
under their own roof. Whether they en-
couraged or discouraged the young sister,
! tbu Hlttuiih W hAo"g buh II bNiiui
that she found friends who were willin
and able to help her, and that she left he
brothers. mousse to 80 to them, and thu
after the usual experience of struggles an
: hard work, she has become the Ami
! Louise Carey o. to. day. whom every bod
loves and OF whom her country is prout
, Mrs. Barry herself has had an eventf'
life-quite the life of latter. day romano,
u I b. ~.