St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-20
LOVE AND PRIDE
Mary Anderson's Second Night at the
Grand Equally as Successful as
tie First.
Ths Vast Audience, Thrilled by Her Su-
perb Acting, Give Her an
Ovation.
Her Hug Proves to Be a Thing OF
Beauty and q Joy
Forever,
While Her Kiss is an Importation
From the North Frigid
Zone.

The heavens seem 10 nave gone INTO q
protracted season of mourning, and they
frowned as darkly on the second night OF the
Mary Anderson engagement as they dld Oh
the first. Notwithstanding the unfavorable
mien of the elements, however, the Grand
held an audience that filled it from the front
parouet row to the last seat in the gallery.
Lent has had the effect of keeping many
representatives of the best circles of society
from the opera, but its influence has moi
created any vacant seats in the
parouet, dress circle or balcony during the
past two nights, and Manager Scott has
hung out a seven benign smile on his coun-
tenance that speaks louder than words oil
the magnificent profit ne is reaping. The
audience last evening was one OF
those heterogeneous assemblages where
all feel independent and acl
according to their likes and
dislikes, regardless of the whims OF
their neighb0rs. The result was grand
enthusiasm that swept through the house as
resistlessly as maddened flames across a
prairie of lifeless grass. The bill was a
five-act drama from the pen of that greatest
of all England'S dramatic writers, Lord
Lytton, entitled Lady of Lyons" a
charming story of humor and pathos
told with such force and elOquence last
night that its spirit will forever haunt the
hearts of those who smiled at the mcOn-
sistencies of Madame DeSchappelleS and
wept with the beautiful Pauline i'll her per-
pIeXity and misery.
CHARMING PAULINE.
The character of Pauline affords Miss
Anderson splendid scope for her versatile
genius. 1t is an old play and has been seen
hundreds and hundreds of times. Vel
those who witnessed its production last
night saw new beauty in its interpreta-
ton that had not been seen before.
ii mattered not in which scene-whether
as the loving maiden with dreams OF
wealth and royalty filling her mind as she
sat in the garden and listened to the tale OF
love from the lips of her princely lover,
or whether in the humble cottage where
came the first rude Weakening when
she found herself a peasants wife instead
of a princes bride, or later on in the parting
scene when love triumphed over pride and
the proud wCman'S heart melted under the
warmth of a love she could no longer con-
ceal. or in the last act where she shows her
scoTnful contempt for the treacherouS and
reVengetul marquis, to whom her hand is
about to be sold as the redemption of her
fathers fortune, or the final scene where
sepal ated husband and wife takes place.
No matter which scene the critic may select
for his subject, his candid judgment must
be that Miss Anderson filled the full meas
ure of superb acting. Notwithstanding
her voice is little bit husky
from cold, her enunciation is so
clear, her elOcution so perfect, that
the faintest whisper was distinctly heard in
every part of the house. The impression
that Miss Anderson is cold in her acting
was completely reversed last night. There
could be no more genuine or tender emo
tional display than was exhibited in the
love scenes with MelnOtte. 1t may be that
her previous reputation for having
LovE-PRooF HEART
which even her genius could not warm into
emotion may have owed its origin to the
fact that never before had she support
with the genius of Mr.. Frederick Robert
son to draw forth the latent fires which all
these years had been slumbering. The
finely cut features of his face with their
classical outlines bespeak him an actor of the
Edwin Booth type. The fine, rich voice and
graceful manners of Mr.. Robertson added
to the charm OF his physique contribute to
inspire an audience with the splendor OF his
genius. 1t is no surprise then that with
his support in love scene Miss Anderson
should dispel the traditional chilliness of
her love acting and give her audiences a
sample Of genuine heart emotion as de-
liclOus in its warmth as the Zephyrs
which blow from the violet banks of her
own sweet South. Miss Anderson was
called before the curtain at the conclusion
of each act, and when she made her ap-
peaTance after the curtain had dropped on
the last act, the vast audience rose and
chered her. 1t was an ovation worthy Of
the Capital city of the Northwest to Amer
ica'S queen of tragedy.
HER STYLE OF HUGGING.
Mary has got the art Of hugging down to
a very fine point. Up TO within the past
two years she had mechanical way Of
throwing her arms around her lover. much
as a windmill would reach out in its slow
whin and swoOp up an imprudent observer
who had imprudently gotten with
III the reach Of its swoop
or as tall trees in the month of January
catch at each other with their long, gaunt
arms as though they We're pushed to an
OdiOuS duty by some Tesistess obligation.
But it is different now. Mary hugs as nat
urally as an unsophisticated country maiden
would fold her arms round the object
of her guilelesS hearts tenderest love.
length feature about it as represented last
night, but warm. ardent, clingIng, rib
breaking, misunderstanding neYer-let-
loose squeeze that has a tendency to make
the shiney-heaGed occupants of the front
parquet rows get up and sit on the back OF
their seats. When Mary throws her
arms open and closes them around the OBJ
Ject Of her alteration it looks like a
white whirlpool of bliss, into whose vortex
any animated object from an automatic
churn to a ruler of nations would do pen
ance for a lifetime to be drowned
for one short, sweet, blssful min
ute. Her hug is gratifyingIy barren
Of amateurishness; it is a thing of
life, beauty, grandeur, an admirable crea-
ton that any man would be willing to lose
his scalp to stand in with. And then when
the tapering arms are well around their
victim, the fingers are interlocked
and spasmodic squeezes are APP
parent, that put wild fancies
of divorce and Paris green into the minds
OF husbands and fathers. 1t is stimulant
for the aged and intirm; 1t is a sea of un-
fashionable bliss that the middle-aged long
to drink to the last drop and it is a thing
that fills the hearts Of the youths with a
wild and unframed laundering. 1t is cv-
clone of happiness that any man would be
happy to allow himself to be caught up by
and mOpped all over the ground with, from
Honolulu to Uppenavik.
HER MODE OF KISSING.
Mary carries q kiss around with her
which IS so light and immaterial that she
stands in no danger of having to pay ex-
cess of baggage on it. 1t is a
sort of a twinkle, twinkle little
STAR arrangement, that leads every
woman who has loved to wonder what it is.
II is kind of reserved affair, such as every
married woman has, and trots out along
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