The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

There is probability that Miss Lucy
Morrow will make brief visit to her
family here before the holiday season.
She is at present in Baltimore playing
in Cumberland 81" under the man
agemenIt of Mr.. Pitou. The next en-
gagement will be in New York The
holiday week the company will play
Washington. Cincinnati is the extreme
of the southern limit. Mss Morrow
has had practically but one year Of work
Her first appearance last winter being
with Mr.. Hearn's "Shore Acres" She
was cast for the most conspicuous figure
and in the role of Helen she at once
sprung into popular favor She is an
earnest student. The brief time that
she has been before the public has not
only brought her gratifying success, but
also a deeper knowledge of art in all
its phases. Her friends here are watch
ing her career with affectionate inter
est She is young, beautiful and tai
ented. She has had a number of fiat
tering offers this season. Mr.. Hearn is
at present at work on new play He
has Miss Morrow in view for one of the
principal characters. - The scenes are to
be laid in Virginia and the play will deal
with southern life. So
1t is great pleasure to record the sue
cess of American girls in these days,
when American managers go to England
for leading ladies. A young girl who Is
attracting attention from the critics at
present is Nance O'Neil. She ds a Cali
wornia girl, % years old Her talents
are inherited from her mother. Her
father is a rigid church man and looks
with disfavor upon her stage career
She made her debut last winter in New
York in the play "True to Life" She
stamped herself indelibly in many men,
orles. 1t was prophested then that if
Miss ONeil worked diligently, carefully
and non-stellary for few years, Amerl-
ca would have an actress to be proud
of. Her life is said ito be just now a
continued rehearsal of new roles and
preparation of others to come later on.
81 went upon the stage because 1
loved the DRAMA" she says, land from
my earliest childhood I knew that some
day should become an actress. I don't
expect to burst suddenly into the magni-
ltude of a star. I know that have years
and years of hard work before me and 1
look forward toward them, not with
dread but with pleasurable anticipation
for success can only be attained by hard
work.
In the cosy rooms of a hotel apart
ment, where she has gathered about her
the thousand dainty accessories that
women love to have, she is carrying on
her dramatic studies.
A writer in one of the New York pa
pers in referring to the visit not long ago
of Christine Neillson to the land of her
birth for the purpose of taking in" the
Stockholm exhibition, says that the ire
merdous enthusiasm created by her pres
ence there served ito bring once more
prominently before the public the name
of a songstress whose voice and fame
have rivalled, and according to some.
risen superior even to those of .Adelina
Patti, and yet who is almost unknown
to the present generation her identity be-
ing, SO to speak, concealed by the name
of her singularly ill-favored Spanish
husband, Count Angel de Miranda, under
secretary of state for foreign affairs at
Madrid.
Like the dark-haired and dark-eyed
Adelina Patti Cr.stine Nelson, countess