The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-09-19

MISS MARY HALL one for which there
was much prelimi-
nary praise. The Glory that Miss Mary
( Hall offers is a little out of the common
run. for it should be borne in mind that
/ the porrayaIs showed BY Katherine Grey
and Elsie Leslie were but limitations.
and rather weak ones at that. OF Viola
( Aliens performance.
Miss Hall is practically an untried ac-
EtTess-she's been on the stage but three
! years-and she is not bound by the con-
/ venuonaIities that have characterized
I the work of the other heroines Of the
Hall Game dTaEla- She has never even
seen the piece played. and her Glory is
therefore entirely her own conception.
We, here in Washington, where Glory
QUayle was born, so far as her stage ca
TeeT is concerned, have been laboring
under the impression for four years OF
so that there is but one way in which
GLORY should be served up 20 US on the
stage, and the estimable ladies who have
/ appeared in the part have been encour-
aging Us TO the best of their abilities in
/ this belief
md now here comes this actress, with
/ only three years experience, and sweeps
away all our pet theories and gives US
q new Glory, and very excellent one
al that
There is no mistakfng the fact that
/ the audiences that have packed the La
/ fayette every night this week are might
/ lily interested IN this new actress, this
! Miss Mary Hall. who came out of-good-
/ ness knows where. for she has never be-
fore occupied g position Of prominence
I in the theatrical world
{ NIGHTLY has her Of
! been somewhat extravagantly praised
/ by the casual theater patron, Snthusias-
/ tiC ally commented upon by persons who
! have seen the other GlOrys and even
J lalded by those captious Individuals
: who have seen the original, and Miss
Allen played that scene altogether diff
/ ferently. you know''-every reader of
/ The Times knows the type.
; Miss Hall came in for a bit of mild
newspaper criticism for her opening per-
/ Torrance. but this initial appearance
( with the Pike company was made under
: circumstances that would have given the
cold shivers 20 mora experienced ac-
tress.
She was a stranger among strangers;
! the other membeF Of the organization,
/ almost to a manor woman, either
/ had appeared in The Christian before,
and it was like reciting yesterdays les
son for them. the audience numbered
! perhaps hundred in all. and hundred
/ persons in a large auditorium is
{ frightfully small audience. and small
( audiences are almost invariably unap-
( preciative and cold and. finally, Miss
( Hail ~as suffering with a cold that made
/ feT voice sound like anything but its
! musical self.
/ This was the combination that this
/ new leading woman was up against
It would have frightened an ordinary
actress out Of several years growth. but
: Miss Hall just jumped in, and braveIy
did the best she could under the cir
( cuElstances-
/ And it is only just to remark that
since that dreadfully dreary Monday
matinee, she has been giving a perform
ance that is altogether different-and IT
! IS almost needless to add better
Some day she viii do still better
work; very much better Il does not
take much Of a prophet to foresee this.
/ She has the temperament that the real
I actress absolutely needs, and besides,
I there IS an intellectually about her
WORK that one misses in most OF the
( young women Of the stage nowadays
I There are some crudities about Miss
I Halls work yet. but in the hands Of a
/ BeIasco-weu. Mrs. Carter even. when
I she ma arrived at IG6 Heart OF Mar
+ lard" point IN her career. did not hold
forth so much promise as does this new
Corr QrayIe. with only three years ex-
Z pc.-o=i,c to back her up
I MISS Hail says she wants 10 do
-ock'' work for one year Her first
E az pearence behind the footlights was
with Nodjeska in Marie Anton cite"
F she was mob leader Then came an
( opportunity to 90 to London and play
J EStrella fl Arizona with Kirk La
Sh-7Ie's company, and then followed
I ori-F season with the Castle Square
sJocE. company. in Boston.
/ Miss Hall admits that when she open
/ Cd with the Boston organization, in The
! Lost Paradise" she felt distinctly dis
cCJraged until she fell through a hole
/ IN the stage, and luckily escaped injury.
! Then" says the actress in relating
/ th-s incident, Fanny Addison Pitt, that
splendid old actress. took me in her
arms and told me- I would certainly be
/ sJccessful. These were the first words
/ Of eucoura cement OF friendliness that I
had heard since my arrival in Boston.
/ The members OF the company had re-
garded me very much in the same su-
perior manner that the Daily company
looked upon Clara Morris when she
Workers
"Ot course, had q hard Eight in Bos-
ton, but every week It became easier.
You know they had never heard OF Mary