The sun., 1900-08-12
OUR ACTRESSES IN LONDON.
SCORING SUCCESSES OYER THEIR ENG
LISH COLLEAGUES.

SCORING SUCCESSES OYER THEIR ENG
LISH COLLEAGUES.
Why the Actresses From This Country Are the
Better. and just where Those Of England
Are LAcking-Leading stars Contrastsd-
1T is easy TO understand the great success
| OF America actresses in London" sad New
Yorker lying there now, who has returned
TO this country on a v's't. -and believe that
I will continue 50 long as the popular women
OF our stage care 10 go over there. Mrs Lesfs
Carter's success n 'Zaza' need not have aston
| shed anybody. The English stage to-day
| possesses no woman with such wonderful emo
| tonal power a. Mrs carter. There IS not an
actress OF importance ia London who could have
acted the part with anything Ike Mrs. Carters
success. The only woman on the stage with any
great emot onal power was Olga Ncthersols
and she has become practically an American
actress Temperament Is oua of the things that
tie women on the English stage lack most.
one of our young actresses who is looked upon
here as quite deficient IA temperament recently
went 10 London and gave a matinee there to
show her talent The critics all sad that she
acted very nicely but called atteutou 10 tho
fact that she was doing just the thing that al
English women of the stage can do so well and
wha, pract caly repre- e-euts the extent of their
theatrical accomplishments. Thoy were all
just a much without fire and temperament -
this young American, From our actresses the
English have come 10 expect dramatic warmth
and yigor.
One Of the most attractive women on the
London .tagc l. Wiuilr,d Lmery, who has Q
great deal Of personal charm aud is a very
fin shed agreeable actrc-- without any deep
lying vein Of Mi.ut she delighted London
III The Lutte Minister but wa5 not 10 be COM
pared TO Maldc hGam' in the play. I.ondon
would have been more delighted over Mss
Adams than II has yet been over any American
actress who has come there and She will. IN all
probability. make tremendous .Gccrss when
her debut j. made there provided she appears
In n role that is suited to her II - 10 be hoped
that she will never come forward there IN such
"A role a. JUi0L Another actress who played
a part " th which Mss Adams was Identified
here WA Mary Moore who ha, been foI many
years playing young srl role, ~ Charles Wyud-
hams company. She va, the original OF tho
heroine Of Ro,"mary., she =, an oldish
Of talent. She j. always grotrsulely mature
for the parts she rla\. and II London could see
Maudr Adams IN 'PO~enlary' for instance,
NurN Moor" woud never br h'ard of again.
umIar, d to 10 Miss Adams or for that MAJ ter
90 y number Of young Nm. rican acireS Sses,
Ann" K rll did not take to London tho
fire AID iemi"ramept as-"ciat"d with Ameri-
can actre,ses but she carried there an eS-
gnl-ltev delicate and irtesCent art that ths
London stage had never sa"p before in the case
OF any American actress and she trlumphed as
such "A delightful actress always will In anv
country that Recognize, and j. grateful for
artistic "punm"ui Mss Rus'cll is moro like
,@en here or n London and although somebody
there called her n Due il Was the Resemblance
Of lcr art 10 Tint Of the French stage which
MADE her 20 successful iu London. One need
only run over the list Of prominent London
actresses Of The day 70 reaiize how much more
fortunate We are, Iulla Nelson, who used to
trained -erviCCHbl6 sort Of aA actress who is one
Of hundred. Mrs Becrbohm Tree would
scaTcel} be tolerated in New ork and II takes
all her social p,ill In lpndon Ia make the public
accept her. Her pet uliarities Of method have
grown more marked and stranger, IN London
are aghast al her performances, Evelyn Mil
leave the stage, has been popua London
leading lady for several wears. She is typlcally
have attracted the least attention Ia this couii-
try. Ellalue lerriss Is, Of course. well known
here and the persoga charm that & ne pos
extent Of her claims to recognition as an actress
Mrs Patrick Campbell has never been seen
here and in spite of her great desire TO como
TO this oouatry. very much doubt II she ever
will, She is the most intensely English actress
that her experience here " ould be the same that
il was IN England In one play-'rhe Second
Mrs TanQueray Il think she might meet
with success b. this country. But j sure she
would meet with success In no other role. Fay
Davis is al American and II ia TO her distinctly
American qualities that her success In London
is due She would never have been as well
known as she Is to-day were II not that she pos
sesHes just the qualities that most English ac-
tre.ses lack, !il, Ha bury has been seen here
and has only her striking beauty to make her
notable iis ure liI theatrical life anywhere.
"Ellcn Terry Is not, of course, to be included
in this liSt.as she stands so far higher than any
Of her associates that they ara scarcely to be
named together. Mrs. Bernard Beer has
retired from the stage and her talents could
never have brought up the average very much.
She was highly typical Of class Of women who
have grown more or less numerous In the Eng
lIsh stage, Neither she nor Mrs. Tree nor
Mrs Patrick Campbell was a trained actress.
They began their careers without the appren-
uceship IL is usually thought 40 necessary to
serve before man or woman can learn tho
elements Of the profession. To this day Mrs.
Patrick Campbelfs acting shows the crudity
that Is the result of the lack OF serious prepar-
alton for her work.
The women who figure conspicuously on
the stage In America to-day are not only moro
beautiful when their associates. but they are mors
talen ed and better trained. They are above all
more in erested in their professions and think OF
that rather than the social functions that tax up
the time Of 40 many London players, SO II is
not In the least surprising that they have met
with such success in .ond0n, And there is more
success in store for them. Not many years ago
one used to hear frequently OF the American
actresses who succeeded abroad when there
was really no truth in the pretence. ! hav0
known of some thought to be highly prosperous
who were really in very bad straits But that
is not true to-day. The American actress