Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-18

al, NOT stand Boston culture IL, BY inc
az ahout one part culture ana ionr
as sboddv. 40 II Is not surprising that
his apostle Of sentiment and mugwump-
ny went to the wall.
rHE FIRST LEADING LADY IN AMERICA,
Last evening attended the perform. |
ance AT the Boston Museum, the only |
theater 10 America that still retains the
stock company. Al the others have sue
cumbed TO the more or less nefarious
'sstar'' system, The Museum company
have spent nearly the entire season this
year supporting Edwin Booth, and only @
few days ago returned 10 their own
theater. Miss Annie Clarke, the leading
lady o. the company, has history. AS
she " to Did adieu to aprofession that she
has for these many years benefited and
adorned, IL Is proper that little oil that
his org be related here. Miss Clarke, who
Is the theatrical favoritc OF every loyal
BOstonian, has had career that has al
most no parallel In the history OF the
stsge In this country. Thirty-iive years
ago, when Miss Adeloide Phillips was
playing in the Museum company, and lit
Tie dreaming OF the success she was des-
tiued TO attain with her contralto voice,
she became Interested In a little dark
eyed child who was a member Of her
mothers dancing class One Of the most
difficult parts 20 al in all the round OF
theatrical characters Is that OF child
one that win be on the stage something
else than miniature $ lex, or perhaps
better expressed, prattling parrot. In
the little waif Miss Phillips found rare
child actress, and 80 Annie Clarke began
her career on the boards Of the theater of
which she has for years been leading lady,
before she was old enough 10 either walk
straight or talk plain. Now mature and
handsome woman OF forty, she
has all her life been II
hard stucent who has won her
way on merit alone, and with her retire
ment she leaves the American stage with
out leading lady In the better sense in
which old actors know II. From bottom
to top there is not part that Miss
Clarke has not essayed, and almost In
yariably with marked success. Charlotte
Cushman was a devoted friend OF the
hardworkIng student of the museum, and
gave her many points that helped her
greatly IN her upward career. Miss
Clarke Is known throughout the North
and has had hundreds OF catering offers
ND4NldNtAg NllNL9 nav why bNth ENN1PbbNlt
would have made her fame much wider,
though it is doubtful ii it would have
greatly increased either her comfort or
| her income. She has created
scores of well-known parts that have
afterwards been made familiar to the
! public at large by other actresses, who
copied her work and her methods. Her
career Of uniform success is q striking
example TO other students of dramatic
art OF Whist well-directcd effort can ac-
complsh, and how honesty Of purpose
may become It's own reward Here was
| q woman who started In with no friends,
and no money, who stayed In one city
and by hare work won her way TO the
very top OF her profession. M6uiiestly
she must have preserved a very good
reputation for iaithfuiness TO remain in
one city and one theater so loug. She
/ is now magnificent woman
both as to looks and character,
and Is universally loved and hon.
ored by the best intelligence of what is
perhaps the most intelligent city--cer-
! tainly one Of the most---in the Union.
| Such a career is worth more TO the women
of America than the hlathersklte talk and
| professions of all the Cady STATIONS in
existence. Miss Clarke retires from the
stage voluntarily, and will hereafter de-
vote her time to travel, and to the study
OF life in other cities and In other
countries. She Is rich--the former wait
of the least aristocratic dancing academy
in the city can now draw her check for
! 100000 and see II pass at par. That is
the tangible part OF her substantial sue.
cess.
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THE GREATEST or MODERN PREACHERS
One Of the lions of Boston is DR..
Phillips Brooks, rector of Trinity Epis.
copnl church. While not, perhaps, the
most notorious, DR.. Brooks Is to-day the
foremost preacher in America. / am
aware that this excludes such men az
Talmage, Beecher and the rest, but they
are no more to he compared with Brooks
than is the Count Johannes to Edwin
Booth, or Upper to Henry w. Long.
fellow. DR.. Brooks has never made as
much noise In the world as Talmage anC
has certainly never figuered In any scan
dial suits. For scholarly attachments
pulpit ability and genuine worth of MAJ
of the church and Of affairs, he stands to
day the foremost in this country, and on,
OF the foremost men in the world. Armed
with letter OF introduction | called a
, the handsome residence OF the grea
divine, which Is on Clarendon street, uvel
in the Back Bay district DR.. Brooks hal
, one OF those spacious studies such as yor
always see pictured In sketches of grea
! men, that is filed with rare volumes, anC
, has prospective window that looks GU
: upon the world in poetic and truly un
practical way. He has been u traveller o
note In his day, and has many rare thing
OF historic interest and value.
+, In physique, DIR. Brooks is a monster
He sat down in a great arm chair, afte
he had bid me be seated, aud facing me
II was easy to change tho old sentence
"phere are giants In these days TIL,
, rector Is six feet and six inches tall
! weighs about $50 pounds, and IS no
flesh but a huge frame compactly knit to
! gether and perfectly well formed. Nov
! II mau OF sixty years OF age, he has neve,
! married, although ii used to be said whel
he preached In Philadelphia, thathe otter
received as many as forty pairs OF slip
! pers at Christmas.
'There is n vast difference between III,
church life OF Boston and that OF Phila
delphia," said DR.. Brooks, as he dropped
naturally into a semireligions sort O
talk, "You know my flst parish was IL
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