The Somerset reporter., 1889-02-07

1.-THE acting of Miss Bessie Williams a
| Lddy Montague, at the amateur theatricalS III
Mrs. Greene pariors on inutsaay niRh,' was
SUI ~ u al, Una. ."""s a,' XIX
~ 40 I'D d,,htIns.s n,,la a ,rcnt rcnut.,'
,inn sbonld She decide to 10 upon The stage"
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IN no, dirrct s.n.ibIn way II snnnns.J
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mi ,hn n,b.r ii,,I, feminine nccrn,iion.
tha, b.,l nre,ion,,v givon nor Measure in
har snare mnmentS no lancer h,J nnv in.
t.r,si ia, paa.;a Sha hn.,op ia hava &.
| fo.lin,I of disyn.. for nracti,al Lntics
and a sense nf snnnrioritv over those who
rn,ld ha s.,;stiad with what she called the
..narro,ynnss,, and ,,stuniditv" of life in
Fullerton
liz. mother,s rpb.Ike did not change her
mind ar her course Ressir knew than
many famous actresses had entered the
| .nr1f.s.ion in nnnnsitinu to tho wishes
of their norents xhn had in after wears
heen nrnud of The snccess of their
d.nohters and sorry for Inc onnusitinn
thnt had DELAYED The beoinniuy of thrir
careers That was not The last time she
posed in striking customes and straup
attitudes and when She found herself
alone in The house. She r,cited the most
thrilling parts of the few PLAYS he had
saen-ncrformances which her srlf-cnp-
ceit told her where proJf OF her dramatic
movers
Eldrrton was n small town. and the few
dramatic conn mics which visited If. and
gave representations in the town hail
were of the lowest order of merit. hut al
Youpr,cp. a small city ten miles from
Elderton. there was n oGraud Oprra
| House" in which "stars" of indifferent
brlliancy had occasionally appeared.
A few weeks after what she regarded
AS her awakening to the consciousness
that she possessed dramatic genius, au-
nouncement was made that Madam b,
IA world-renowned" actress, with a
talented company, was about to visit
Youngton, Bessie resolved that she
would call upon Madam B., coniidc To
the famous actress her hopes, recitc
some of her best passages as a specimen
of what she could do, and, if encouraged
to do So that she would join the com
pany, and begin her glorious career a- an
actress