The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08

The
the Century
ara some quotations of an anec-
nos horocter taken from interviews
IN Mrs. Drew in 1890:
WIZ did YOU contrive to obtain an edu-
- considering that you acted SO much
as girl os oducoted-tbat
Dr. obtained what is usually con-
81 a systematic education, Tor my
slue oI has been human nature ana my
scn nps were the people l met l believe
p0OA cont 70 school for one quarter III Lon
w and remember being sent to school
dOI r' ca for awhile. The resi- of my
ID p" a.,nn nicked up myself by reading
eau,,-.oning 70 the conversation of clever
people ,oo,,iro If NIacready and Ed
win Booth ,u-o oo+;ro with tbese
...Oedians?" she was asked
ua EVIL Nacready was disagreeable and
,aoult 70 work with. Forrest was not n
PARTICULARLY pleasant man. put easy
I"ough 10 get along with. Junius Brutus
9th didn't care who you were or any
.b;nc about you, so that association with
linn was not especially pleasant nor espe-
MI ,nI,, urnleasant. His eccentricities mt
. .n were very trying and sometimes very
,amsbable. Edwin Booth was dignifled
and delightfully."- courteous
~no Won recall any of the eccentricities
NJ the elder Booth"
~ shall never forget one night when L
cloved Ophelia to his Hamlet. lie had
satisfied the scene i'm the fourth act and
.ho crrtain was lowered. When the time
anne ~ ring il up on the fifth act, which
kgamlet was to open, the Prince of Den
mark was not forthcoming. Attendants
rrshad hither and thither in search of
him but he was not to be found. When
,ra had almost given up in despair, some
one discovered Hamlet perched away up
on ron of one of the wings of the scenery
among the rafters, Growing Justify. L
.dont know. | am sure, whether he imag-
med himself the growing cock which crew
when il was time for the ghost to depart
| or whether it was simply practical joke.
Ar all events. we got Hamlet off his perch
and the play went on. On another occa-
sion the play was "Orinoco," and the eld-
er Booth had to appear with darkened
skin. Just before the last act he came be-
fore us with his bare feet and legs all
backened and insisted upon going on
that way. His mood did not strike me as
particularly encouraging, so l refused to
10 on, and the act had to be presented
without me.
She was asked, "What do you think of
modern plays?'
II don't approve of up to date plays of
an immoral nature But / think that,
like almost everything else, the drama is
steadily advancing. 1t has undoubtedly II
great future in this country"
Her personality was always interesting.
Fredrica Barrett thus described visit to
her rooms in New York in November,
1885, Mrs Drew being 10:
When | went to call on Mrs. John Drew,
! had the impression that i was to see an
old lady, but this idea was quickly dis
PEELED when | met her. In years Mrs.
Drew may have outliycd many of her own
generation. She has cOntri buted toward
a second generation in the raising and
training of her own children, and she is
now hopeful and watchful over the careers
Of third gCncration-her grandchildren.
Mrs. Drew has retained great part OF
her youthiulnesS in activity and general
appearance, and this is due no doubt to II
large endowment of natural humor and to
hopeful disposition which makes her
manner at once spontaneous and cheerful,
anu due IN great measure, too, let us
assume, to her intimate and loving asso-
ln a..
family of Drew.
VI her early days in America Mrs Drew
loved to speak.
Louisville in 1929 she remembered as
an exquisite place, with elegant society,
noted for the beauty of its women.
:, Conditions were crude everywhere, a
new YORK hotel-tavern, as it was then
aued-sending up pie that was ordered
aor lunch with tallow candle reposing
sekly on its surface, the messenger not
pellg blessed with two pairs of hands and
having his one pair o'erfull.
when the dining room doors were
opened, there was u mad rush, the stout
-, securing the seats, while the unsuccess-
.u oneS formed into line to wait their Sec
vnu chance, But this method of conduct
. not unknown at the present day, when
We are pleased to think the world very
nucn civilized, says Mrs. Drew, recall
".s 'ne actions of certain travellers of this
''a am Whom 1t has been her lot to see.
A,a Ane curtain went up at z, and often
Wv no. IAN finally until half an hour be-
then. '' was III hurry
., Scats We're reserved only until the end
bo uo nrst act, and then anybody took
Siu VINO wanted them. Shame to the man
mnO S'V IN the front row of the house if n
s "Onlan sat behind him, for people all
aSu 'ie would shout, Front seat for the
aIwnr iroht scat for the la-a-dy' and she
h,r o%aklng of crude stage settings, per-
wap 'ne funniest experience | ever had
linz I,i, III harrisburg, where was play
sTt uneV 10 Mr.. Fredericks' Romeo.
cd h. NV palcony was big table surround
ord painted canvas, which a small col
bolS was stationed in the wings to
anSi, al the progress of the scene Romeo
anotbd nea a suppressed litter, and then
lOOIina, ana another, and upon furtively
disoors ABOUT to see what was wrong we
"a n,,l, mat the darky boy had become
he hull "S interested i'm what was going on
ana au forgotten what he was set To do
wa,ch IN sot out In view of the audience to
journal P'oereSs Oh affairs. "-Boston
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