The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-07
OUT AND ABOUT.

When "a Lady of Quality appeared
first as a book, poor Bah" who was
then in the midst of her successful ca
reer of making copy out of nothing
prophesied: 1T will make a fine play,
but where is the actress who could be-
come Clorinda? She must be not
foolish soubrette, not merely beauti-
full woman, and yet she must be beau
tiful, but she must, even in the days OF
her folly be a woman who could sug-
gest all the future would make of her.
/ have thought and thought as to the
Clorinda of the stage; no weak ingenue
need try the part, but a woman Of
brains, a woman of beauty, and a wo-
man of dignity must cause ClOrinda to
appear in flesh and blood before US.
AS it has been generally admitted by
critics, that the role of the beautiful
hoyden and grapde dame running. as
it does, the whole gauntlet of emotion,
is an exceedingly difficult one, Miss
Arthur must have been greatly graft
fed when Mrs. Burnett pronounced her
10 be her ideal ClOrinda in every res
pect.
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"A Lady of Quality" was a perpleX-
ing book The Characterization inn
pressed, but the diction and atmosphere
seemed unsuccessful affectation, and
the plot was wildly impossible. For
dramatic purposes it was a brilliant
stroke to have Clorinda murder her
bold, bad lover, and then roll a sofa
over his body or his body under the
sofa whichever it was, and then go
on with her reception, but the women
who could carry off such an episode as
Clorinda did are so rare as. TO be mon
Etrosities. In her palmy days Miss Mel
lie Bly, might have done it with quite
as airy a grace as Clorinda, but short
of her it is hard to think of any Wo-
man who could have managed it, with
the possible exception of Mrs. Mack.
President G. Stanley Hall of Clark
University is announced to speak at the
next session of the Chautauqua sum
mer school, and will give a regular
course OF instruction, for teachers in
connection with the department Of ped
agogy, in addition to popular lectures.
Miss Laura Hills of Newburyport,
who has spent the last month in Wor-
. cester painting miniatures. left the city
yesterday. Her last miniature was one
of Miss Bessie Pratt. While in Worces-
ter, Miss Hills has been the guest Of
Mrs. James B. Blake.
The opportunity to see Nat c. Good
win and the beautiful Maxine Elliott
at the theatre Thursday evening will
certainly be embraced by Worcester
theatre-goers. Much less than Clyde
Fitche's sparkling comedy Of The
Cowboy and the Lady" would have
suficed TO sell the seats.
Once Fanny Kemble and Edwin Booth
were playing together in the same piece.
eff Mr.. Booth and l simply shook
hands on the stage and said How do
you do?' the house would be packed
to, see us do it." remarked the saga
cious Fanny AS for Miss Elliott. she
is called the handsomest actress on the
American stage, and it isn't necessary
for her even to open her pretty mouth
10 charm the audience.
Class 10 Of the Old South Sunday
school will give an entertainment in TIE
church vestry on the evening Of the
18th for its benevolent fund. Miss Marie
Collins, the popular elocutiOnist. will
give recital, assisted by an eminent
vocalist Miss Collins was formerly the
principal Of Martyr school Of Oratory
in Washington, D. C, and she has again
been offered that position. She gave a
recital not long ago in Brooklyn which