Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-12

laughter. Rice and now sang alter
nate stanzas, and tho excitement In.
creased. Showers OF pennies, six.
pcnces and shillings, and even larger
coins we've tossed from the pit and
thrown from the galleries upon the
stage. At the fall OF the curtain S2i
was picked up and given into my
delighted hands.
HENRY IRVING.
Henry Irving had to undergo long
and strenuous apprenticeship before
he gained recognition as tho leading
English actor Of his time. His parents,
Cornish people, OF excellent repute,
intended him for mercantile career,
and when he left school, place was
found for him in a London counting
room, but he had already become i'm
bued with love for the stage, and all
his spare hours were spent IN the study
OF theatrical literature, while all his
scanty savings were expended on les
sons In elOUution, which were given
him by m actor at the Saddler's Wells
theater. In this way he formed the
acquaintance OF Samuel Phelps, then
the manager Of the Saddler's Wells,
AMI was by that sterling actor offered n
small engagement. Others would have
eagerly accepted 80 inviting an offer,
but young Irving, believing that he
could afford to walt, aud that the
provinces wsre, after all, the best place
for a beginner, very sensibly declined
II. In this way IL came about that his
fTst Appearance on any stage was as
the Duke OF Orleans In "Richliou" at
Sutherland In the north OF Eng
land Ia September 1856. IL Is recorded
that this maiden effort was well re-
ceiyed, and his clever work In other
roles led to his engagement In the fol-
lowing year at the rheater Royal in
Edinburgh where he profited by as-
ISOLATION with such accomplished play.
ers ae Charlotte Cushman, Helen
Faucit, Charles James Mathews,
Benjamin Webster aud Frederick
Robson. But fifteen years OF labor and
study, marked by one metropolitan
failure, had passed, and he had en-.
acted more than 300 roles, before, In
November, 1871, he startled the Lon.
don theatrical world by his powerful
and thrilling petsonation OF Matthias
In the BELLS"
MARY ANDERSON,
whose beauty and genius now seem
permanently lost TO the stage, had
been making preparations for a bril-
linnt dramatic career for years before
her first entrance on the boards. When
she left school ut the early age Of 10,
sue became an ardent student OF
Shakespeare, who opened to her a
world full OF fascination and charm
and also begon the careful cultivation
Of her voice. Before she hnd passed
her fourteenth birthday she made hei
first visit to the thcater, where she
saw Edwin Booth in Orchard
ILL.," and her destiny was seal
ed. Charlotte Cushman When She
visited that great actress, gave her cor
diai encouragement, and, after brief
period Of instruction under the late
George Vandenhon, che decided tC
enter upon a professional career
Mary Anderson's first appearance on
any stage was at Macauley's Theater
Louisville, on Nov. ~, 1875. She wal
then something over 10, and the char
acter In which she was teen for tn,
first time was Juliet, the play-bill read
ing "by Louisville young lady,
Careful critics, who witnessed thii
initial performance, declared that I
really great actres had appeared, ant
events speedily confirmed their judg
ment.