The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-17
NARY ANDERSON TALKS.
TIP PLANS FOR HE FUTURE AND
VIEWS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

che Will Come to America Next Sep
.e,,ber-A oval to Her Own Country,
Pint Enjoying an Ideal Existence in
rondor-She Does Not Read Criti-
Jams of Herself Or Crlticise the Crit
les.
From the NelC York World.
Trnon my last Sundays call was shown
~ neat waiting maid into the large draw
;nc room, which is furnished in light
,oIors There, upon a large sofa covered
With fuls, in front of an open fire, sat Miss
anderson in company with a German lady
,.onnanion. Miss Anderson received me with
,,reat frankness and cordiality. | have
hosr1 great deal about the fatigue Miss
Anderson endures in playing the parts of
pernione and Perdita. There is no sign in
her a pearance of this fatigue She has the
,trong. healthful appearance of an English
country girl. Yet, in spite of her apparent
strength, her physician has warned her that
she cannot play these parts more than once
during the twenty-four hours. This is the
rsason WHY Miss Anderson hes been obliged
N refuse to play winters Tale" at matinee
or charitable performances.
She wore upon this occasion a brown
cloth dress. Its jacket was Spanish, with
an underskirt of yellow silk. She has i'm
nroyed much since her last visit to America
Sbe has worked hard as a student
and has to-day the manner and
unmistakable air of people who
have arrived at success. There is no
egotism in this manner, but simply quiet
self-confidence. Indeed, there are few people
who have made so brilliant a success upon
the stage who are SO modest over this sue
cess as Miss Anderson. Indeed, she would
rot suggest to a stranger in any way that
She is a member of the theatrical profession.
She was first asked, what were her plans
for the future, Was she going to Australia,
and when did she intend to come back to
the United States! To these questions she
replied Il expect to go to the United States
next September and play the Winters
Tale have given up all thought of going
to Australia. | have no new plays or new
plans beyond just what | have mentioned"
Miss Anderson was asked how she enjoyed
her STAY in England. She said with laugh
that she ought to be very guarded in max
ing any replies to such question, as there
were a few people in America who were
disposed to exaggerate every expression OF
regard that she made for England into
feeling of antipathy for the United States.
She said: II love my own country and my
own country people, to whom am devotedly
loyal. But is it not natural for me to enjoy
very much my success and my present lie
in England! In some ways it represents to
me almost an ideal existence. Something
that dreamed of few years ago without
any hope of realizing. In the United States
could not play in any one city longer
. than six weeks or two months at time.
Here play from one to nine months con-
secutively at the same theatre with the
same surroundings, and after the play here
] have home of my own. | engage in my
work without the exhausting fatigues of
long railroad journeys and life at the hotels,
and am able for the first time in my life to
have time to make friends. To be able to
60 into London society, to meet there in
friendly intimacy men whose names have
been familiar to me since childhood, is one
of the great pleasures of my present life"
Some of the London newspaper critics
have been quite unfriendly towards your
production, in spite of its success. How do
you regard these criticismSs"
Il do not know whether it is exactly safe
to venture to criticise the critics. | never
read criticisms. 1t is one of my absolute
rules. Criticism depresses me- 1t makes
me think to much of my manner when
come to play again. My mother reads the
papers for me and tells me whether they are
good or bad.
but l do know this, that 1 have the
public with me, that my work now is popu
lar, and that | am sustained in my charac-
teriZation of the parts | am now playing by
some of the best artists and critics of Lon
don. 1t is through their advice and sugges-
ton that j have made certain changes
which now meet their approval When
such men, whose rank in the intellectual
world is SO high, tell me that | am doing
well they have treated ME very fairly"
Watts, the famous mystic painter, of
London, is engaged upon a portrait of
Miss Anderson. Watts is one of the most
powerful and imaginative painters of the
London artistic colony. 1t often requires
more time for him to paint portrait than
for almost any other artist. He will only
paint the portraits of people whom he likes
On for whom he has some sympathy or adj
miration. He will often spend the entire
time OF the sitting in talking with the sitter,
Studying his or her character in these con-
versationS. Mr.. Gladstone sat some years
ago for portrait by Watts. The great ex
Premier said not long ago that he did not
feel at times as if he could spare the time
Tor the sttings, but yet he never missed one
because it was such an intellectual treat, his
association with this most distinguished
painter, that he would go and remain, in
different to the portrait itself.
MISS Anderson became quite eloquent
when speaking of Mr.. Watts, and called my
attention to an engraving of a portrait of
Watts painted by himself, gift from the
painter. He has the powerful features and
strength Of character in his face that one
sees III the portraits of the old masters. His
forehead is broad and high; his eyes are
large and dreamy, while the lower part OF
OILS earnest looking face is hidden by long
moustache and beard. The rim of huge,
soft black hat encircles his face 1t is of
THIS portrait that Lord Tennyson said that
ne would rather own it than any other mod
ern portrait in England
MISS Anderson was asked if she had any
opinion concerning the merits of the Don
nelly Shakespeare-BacOn controversy.
She laughed outright at this very serious
question, and then replied that it seemed
almost too absurd for any one to discuss
such question. She made no pretense of
o-lng technical student of Bacon and
therefore would have no opinion which
could possess value. She believed, however,
m Shakespeare and had heard or seen
nothing which could shake her belief. The
pest argument which had been called to her
attentlon showing the weakness of the
baconlan theory was the fact that there
eXiSts III Shakespeare's writings so many
glarng anachronisms A man like Bacon
Wno was famous for his erudition and
correct knowledge could not, i'll all proba-
olllty, have cared to affect this seeming
ignorance OF geography and history which
are 10 be found i'll the works of Shakes
DA9ra