The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-17
TOLD OF WELL-KNoWN ACTORS.
Miss Terry's Recommendations 60 Study
Macbeth Again.

Miss Terry's Nervousuess-Irving 60 study
Macbeth Again.
Comparatively few people know that Ellen
Terry is q great sufferer from neuralgia. Her
intense nervousness, however. must be apparent
to every ono who sees her on the stage. Miss
Terry feels the effects Of It and has to claim
certain privileges which are not accorded to
the common run of people.
A well-kpown Newport woman was telling
the other day of a dining In London with a GER
tain publisher. Miss Terry was present. When
tho dinner was about half over she left the
table and was escorted up stairs to q dark ened
room. where she lay down on q couch and rested
for fifteen or twenty minutes. At the end Of
that time she reappeared At the dinner table
and went on with the feast
The little London anecdote was evidently
sq qrsosians ey the .sn wo,nsn ~h e. t t. not It 10 Sow be an
for Miss Terry has q chronic dislike for sitting
through long dinners. Not long ago she was
middle. of the dinner Miss Terry excused her
and here the actress had a quarter Of an hours
quiet rest before she again appeared at the
another fifteen minutes repose. Her extreme
nervousness makes 1t almost impossible for her
to :dt through n1s o any long so ana dsn a peeIiia.ity
Irving 10 said to be a man of extraordinary
vitality. He rarely gets to bed before 3 O'Clock
in the morning: often not until much later.
When he is playing in his own theatre In Lon
don he often serves q supper on the stage after
the performance. Some of the members of
the company are invited to remain for the feast:
others are from the front of the house; others
come, by appointment, from different theatres.
There is good eating and drinking and talking,
and somewhere about l or 2 O'Clock Irving be-
gins to thaw out, to mellow. to ripen. There is
no temptation then for any one to break up the
party. and as for Irving. he is good until 3 A.
NJ. After he goes home he, may go to bed, or,
more likely. sit down to read and study.
Irving's Macbeth has always been a source OF
varied emotions to his audiences. Some people
do almost everything except admire it. Never
theless. Mr.. Irving has persisted in his inter
seemed to discourage him. 1t is Significant
that the other day, in Philadelphia. he ex-
pressed his determination to re-read the char
when 7 get back to England" he said.
thoughtfuliy, II mean 70 take up ;MaGbeth once
think it 10 possible that have misconceived the
character"
Mile. Rhea.a although she has adopted America
IS hor home, is nevertheless a Frenchwoman
at heart. She has many enthusiasts, but none
30 strong as her admiration of Napoleon. She
was talking to a woman's Stub in a Western
town not long ago. and she quite electrified her
audience OF comfortable American wives and
mothers. She salu sho Woulu ike 10 snow them
tho difference between a mans and q woman's
view Of Napoleon. She quoted Col. Ingersoll as
saying that ho would rather have been a
French peasant and worn wooden shoes,
have lived in a hut with a vino crossing
over the door. and his loving wife and children
by his side. and have gone down in the tongue
less silence of the dreamless dust than to have
been that i'm perial impersonation Of force and
murder known as Napoleon the Great, When
Mile. Rhea had repeated these words she said:
These are the thoughts OF a man. AS for me,
admire the General, pity the martyr, let God
Judge the man, and / would rather have been
Josephine. wife of Napoleon. beloved and for
saken, than the greatest woman In the uni
verse;"