The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

| MISS PreScottS. 1t was produced in
New York in 1890. Here again the mis-
| placed sex held down the imperson-
alton to uneventful levels.
Not wholly malapropos to this chron-
| fcle would be a note about a perform
ance given in New York in 1893, under
| the auspices of the Woman's Profess
sional League. The play was "As You
| Like It. and the players were women
these women:
| Jaques.. ............. Mime. Janauschek
| DUKE. ............ Mrs. Il. A. Eberle
lie Beau Mrs. Marguerite st. john
Frederick. Mrs. Ida Jeffryes Goodfriend
Charles.. .......... Miss Marion Abbott
| OllveT..'.. ........ Miss Olive oliver
| orahuo'' -. $50. MISS Maude Banks
ADAM ;'..... Mrs. Chambers Ketchum
| douchstohe' 49,. -. MISS Kate Davis
Sorih.. .".''. MISS Sarah McVicker
sinus nltiyiue. ..''....' 49,. MISS Grace Fllklns
"!liialn '...'..'..: MISS Laura Burt
80 much IN brief of the doubleted
| herolnes that old-tlmefs and old-tlmerS
grandtathers hold in fond memory.
mentFon is omltted OF actresses who
pay, as IL were, male parts, but IN
Iravssty, temporarily assuming them
% tie eAlsencles OF certain plays de-
manu- manu- ~ TINS Grass OF representation
| witness fa1r Rosalind and Viola. Oper-
atlc roles too, may not be properly in
cluoed IN this cursory glance, though
many popular singer is lovingly re-
aIeilpereu When we speak or Slebei In
faust' Cherublno IN The Marriage
OF tlgaro, urbaln in The Hugenots,
ofpheus IN 'Orpheus and Eurydice,
ana tne various representations of the
operate Romeo
speaking of Rosalind, the conditions
| JUSTLY the reproduction herewith of
Winsome picture William Archer, the
| LONDON dramatic critic, has just left
us, ana has written things he thinks
| n
| derson-hall, blithe maid, or you once
| Wefe-Mary Anderson has come back
10 US Tor visit OF few measly
weeks. In 1885, in the London theater,
| william Archer wrote this of our Mary:
Her appearance was ideal No actress
| Whom nave seen in Rosalind, or, in
deed, IN any 'doublet and hose part,
wears these trying garments with any
thlng like the ease, grace and perfect
good taste displayed by Miss Anderson.
In most Rosallnds the woman OBJ
trudes herself upon the physical as
ria OF the feeling that Orlando must
inevitably see through this masquer-
| ade from the very first. In Miss An
stnmblino bIoci, oia,, III 40 is suoii
eouti,pIii's ptoch' "A cIeNerly uesisneu
bi,7e1 r,.h Coi!i-
no Va rna,r7ot anu IN
a perfect embodiment of the 'sa,Icv
! lackey' Her heaIItv which lie essen.
| tially feminine was the only circum-
| stance which, need have made Orlando
| susnect the woman in nor ifa1to obIit-e
| Shakespearel9 we s,Innose ~ nossihIe
| that he should fail 70 recoenize her, &c
! the identical Rosalind of the wrestling
| match. Her cIaret-coIored mantle ex
| auisitely handled, gave her the means
| for much Significant by-play. through
| which she prevented the audience from
| forgetting her seq without in any wav
| suggesting IT To Orlando Its tasteful
| ness was perhaps the great charm Of
| her Rosalind,"
| Adelaide Neilsonl See the old-timer
start and ouiyer Her heautv like a
| haunting perfume. fingers with him VET
| She was but Yesterday. too. save as
| Rosalind called her TO nannish eI,isa
she imnersonated only female roIaq
and she has left the rarest memory
Her farewell American tour was in 1880
She took from, ms and we gave II NOT
nigeardlv. about 500 600 That s,Jm-
mer' at the age of %, she died most
nitiahlv in Paris William Winter
| voiced the lament of her worshiners
! concluding;
o., ,,.,,
fNoil OIL sIas ealtn anu sili l ssai,
Alt, Anu coluly nloch our creams Vi oiiss'
| "'
| Away PACK before there was any
American drama, and before Englisn-
men knew thelr stage tolk OF hemple
| ana ms llhe' there came 10 BRUSH
| stageland, by way OF be1ng juvenile
| appurtehahce TO tlsht-rope dancer
| one margaret "orllhStoii' iahlilarly
known Tor nearly TWO centuries as reg.
| She was lrish; her origin was miles
and miles from peerage pooh' sac
| sold green vegetables In Dupllh toWn'
! she was beautlful ana real actress
speak OF TINS FAMOUS stage Queen
| mere because she played cerudin mat
role ana dld IL stuhnlhglg Well-peat
the great 6afrlck hlinseil. Inc role was
| SIR Harry "lldalr, gay ulssIpaleu,
| good-hurnofea RAKE; anu sne cairle su
| herseii SO aftistlcaly that II pecaIne
nashlonaple outy 10 see this lIhperso 1.
! alton Sarah Sludons' greatest OF act
fesses, trled iainlet, put Hldue no ~
| OF IT. A dashlhg actress named is1pel
| Dickinson, came TO US from Lohdoh IN