The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-05-22

tha1 snd 81 viev. 81 made her first ap-
peax1nce ii NcAu1ey's theater, IN Louis
vile. November q, 1875. playing JulleG
Combfning With her tall figure the prccliv-
II for u1oculins charncteriEafion Of her
first instructSess. she would have preferred
e play Romeo Her acting = Juliet q
ssSs promis Of kistsionic ability.
and tke theater being fun Of friends.
following February she Played BIZ
ancA IA "Faxio'' ~ the same theoser,
and IN the succeeding April she first played
Pauline in '.The Lady Of Lyons in The g
lowing ia bent acquired from Miss Cush-
man. she played Meg Mefrilies In Guy
NanneringA in the variety theaters Of New
Orleans. part she subsequently dropped
from her repertory. As she wAs then but
II. the character probably never had 50
young IN interpreter on the regular stag
the California thester, San francisco, in
August. 1876. played in Chicago house
during the following November. Having
in the meantime played IN Boston. in
..Ion." she made her FIRST appearance in
New York at the Fifth Avenue theater,
November II, 1876 She played Pau
Meg Merrilies, Evadne and Par
thenia. The critics dealt generously
With the crudities Of her Juliet and Paul
Inc, but in the other characters, aided by
her beauty. she made pronounced sue
cesses. at any rate from the point of view
Of the audiences. She went abroad in the
summer of 1878. and on her return she ad-
ded .sThe Hunchback.. "Pygmalion and
Galatean and THE Daughter of Roland"
to her list. She also tried Lady Macbeth,
but net for long.
Although capable of attracting large
audiences in nearly al these characters, 1t
was not until she appeared Is Perdita in
1.-THE Winters Tale" that she was really
recognized Is m actress as well as . beau
ufuI woman. She made her first appear
arce in London in the autumn Of 1883.
plaving at the Lyceum theater. While she
had the stage OF his theater Irving played
in this country. Her English engagement.
during which the sobriq net Of "Our
Mary" became fastened on her. under the
auspices of Gladstone, marked the climax
Of her career. She achieved remarkable
success in London, and was courted and
admired by the brains and nobility Of the
British capital. During her season in Lon
don she still further endeared herself to
Americans by refusing the attentions of
the prince Of Wales. Her true American
independence delighted her countrymen
who happened to be in London at that
time, and the stories Of this incident Co.
bled to the United States won her . warm
place in every heart
Her last season in America was in the
fall and winter of 1850. She was unable
TO I'LL all her engagements, owing to illness,
and was obliged to give up her work en-
tirely and take rest. She went to England,
where she has since resided, and where she
- at present. During her last season in
this country she won high praise from the
best critics for careful and conscientious
work. and although she was never consid-
cred a. possessing high histrionic genius.
she was universally acknowledged to pos
sess talent Of high order. The chief de-
feet in her acting. noticeable throughout
her entire career on the stage. was lack of
warmth and fire, and in parts that did not
require great display of passion She was
ct her best. Miss Anderson was through
out her life devout Catholic.