Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-03-25
MISS EFF|E ELLSLER, A DELIGHTFUL INTERVIEW WITH THE CHARMING
 LITTLE ACTRESS. She Presents shakespeare's Com edy, "As You Like It, at
 the Opera House
 Tonight.

A GRAPHIC reporter had the pleasure of q social chat with that most delightful of American actresses, Fife Ellsler, in the parlor at Hotel Trulock this afternoon He now understands how it is that Miss Ellsler so securely and surely finds her way into the hearts of all who in contact with her.
 She possesses personality at once sympathetic and pleasant, a magnetism that is most agreeable and which interests and entertains without apparent effort. 1t may be summed up as a native ingenuous- ness, d nature so entirely free from guilt that one sinyoluntarily drawn into an immediate and positive ad- miration for its possessor.
 Being desirous of knowing from so admirable an authority as Miss Ersler herself something of a life that must have been more than ordinarily eYentful. the conversa- tion was led into that channel and many experiences were called up how her childhood had been passed, between the stage of her fathers theater and theconyent school; how, as she grew into Womanhood and was called upon to assume more inn portant characters on the stage, her love for the art of acting awakened and expanded to such a degree that she decided to make it the one great aim of her life; how at the disband- ing of the stock companies she went to New York, just as the Madison Square Theater was projected, and her connection therewith and of her endeayors with the various plays she has produced since her retire ment from the Madison Square Company.
 Being asked which of all the characters she had played and of which she was most fond, Miss EllsIer replied:
 'It is hard to say. To me they all look like so many children, all with their claims to my affection, though the ones I am presenting this season, fancy, have perhaps alittle warmer corner in my heart than the others. Juliet I admire for the vast depth and breadth ot her girl love, as pure and innocent as it is deep and strong. 'Rosalind' l am fond of for the op- portunity it gives me to portray different side of woman's $ many-sided nature. I love As You Like It for the many beauties contained in it's delightful language and consider the character of Rosalind as delicate as a bit of Dresden china. Camille appeals to my sympathy through her misfortunes and the greater draught she makes upon my vitality in her portrayal Sc great is the strain that l dare not attempt q matinee and night performance of it notwithstanding the tribute of tears that have been shed by both sexes whenever and where ever play it. During my recent en- gagement in Chicago two ladies be- came hysterical; one of them during the scene with Armand's father in the third act, and her friends per suaded her to retire; and during the last act the other lady who occupied one of the boxes became SO hysteri- cal that she was not sufficiently re- covered to leaye the theater for fully half an hour after the rest of the aud fence had departed A great com pliment? Yes. indeed, and one that I appreciate, although I could wish that did not have quite SO great an effect, though these are the excep- tional cases. Do l not like to play comedy? Oh, yes! of the higher or der; but if seems that the public do not wish me to be merry or to be merry with me. On the contrary they wish to see me in the depths of woe and enjoy themselves by weep ing with me" Our re- porter, bowing to the imperative de- mand of duty, took his departure after one of the pleasantest 1 hali-hours he has ever known.
 Miss Eilsler and her company will
 present Shakespeares pastoral comedy, As You Like It. at the Opera-house tonight, Miss Ellsler
 playing the part of "Rosalind. -=-@
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