The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-12-21
ON THE ROAD TO FAME.
A Lafayette Girl Who Is Scoring
Marked Success on the stage.

Miss Marie Atcheson, young resident
Of the Lafayette section Of the city. VINO
has achieved an enyiable historic repre-
sentation, signed twenty weeks con-
TRACK last week to go TO Grand Rapids,
Mich, as leading lady at the Lgceum
Theatre. She will open her season there
tomorrow as Claire, in the well known
play sClaire and the Forge Master j
play written some years ago By Mrs.
Ettie Henderson. the present proprietress
of the Academy of Music IN this city.
During the Grand Rapids engagement
she IS 60 play the leading roles In Called
Back, Led Astray." Camille and
pieces of a like high standard.
With the outlook and present prepara-
lions her Jersey friends will have an OPP
portunity next season of seeing her in the
sublime roles Of Shakespeare in New
York. Leonard Grover. the author Of
Lost in New York, engaged her Tor the
part in that play before the play itself
was sold. SO anxious was he for her inter
probation or the character Of the Blind
Woman. y
Many offers to go into comic opera have
came 70 her, but her artistic traininx love
for the majesty of her profession and the
responsiveness Of some things connected
with comic operas has always made her
say no TO the tempting monetary offers
La person Miss Atchison is tail. hand
some and 1.-THE, with classic features, a
gentle face. mild kindly voice, and mar
Fello1s wealth Of golden hair
she IS hard, earnest ond conscientious
worker, with an opinion that the stage
should be as great moral agent as the
pulpit, and the truths OF love, the beauty
and purity of woman S character that she
tries to depict on the mimic stage she
emphasizes every day on the great stage
Of life.
Miss Atches0n was born at the old
homestead in Lafayette Of her grand.
father, the late John Bird. on Van Horn
street. She spent her years until bud
ding wosuanhood in the city aud was well
known as the Jersey City Athletic Elut
Esess.ts ssss szsss Henderson,
discovered her strong dramatic tendency,
and he put her on af the Academy ii
small parts. Afterward she went on the
road for season.
When she returned her voice, which
was rich and beautiful one with scope
from c0nJralto to soprano, mad become so
much strengthened that Mr. Henderson
arranged for her to meet the late
Rudolph Aronsen of the New York
Casino She played her accomplishments
and sang her Freuch aud Italian solos;
then Aronson played them for her to
sing, the result OF it was he offered her 9
part at once.
The following season, 1886, she played
Julie De Mortimer in sRichelieu,n Rose
in Serpent and Dove" Fiordilisa in
Hugo" CIementine in Marble Heart, =
Lady Janet Roy in the New Madalene.'
During 1887 and 1855 she was with Miles
& Barton's famous Lost in New York
Company making a big hit and success al
the Bijou Theatre, New York, as the
Blind Woman
I'm May, 1859. from overwork she broke
down completely with nervous prostra-
ton and for more than a year she rested
but with the return Of strength and vIgoi
and vitality the old longing for return
to the scenes of her triumph came back
and she Joined Patrice's mid night Cal
Company to play the leading part.