The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-11

lines spoken by men, for you Know IL was not
until the latter part OF Queen Elizabeth's
reign that men ceased taking women's
parts.
in the version used by Mrs. Potter and
by Miss Adams tho Whole Of Scene 2, Act
ILL.,, is eliminated. IL is a beautiful scene
between jude, and the Nurse and has q fine
touch Of tragedy in it for both. l think
the lines that Juliet speaks. beginning:
shall l speak i'll of him who is my husband?'
one Of the finest pieces of defamation in the
play. and that was the opinion Of the old
time actresses. who always swept the audi
Unces OF their feet when they played it.
Why the actresses | have named should cut
it out l cannot imagine.
"Th costuming Of the part, too, varied
with the player. A great many JHtets
have costumed IL for the thirteenth 70
tury and others again have preferred that
Of the sixteenth. The sixteenth century Ia
more beautiful. 1 think, for the cumbersome
trains Of the thirteenth century never
adapted themselves gracefully to the girl
ish figure Of juliet. However. Miss Adams
wore that, while Mr.. Potter took the six
teenth. Mrs. Potter probably played the
most mdoern juliet we have ever had,
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graceful and charming.
But the part Of the NURSE in really what
1 might call one Of my lator parts, for 1879.
when l look back IN my stage life, seems
very close at hand.
Il played my first speaking part in the
|, old Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia,
when Junius Brutus Booth, father Of the
renowned Edwin and himself an actor
! - ,~aaf ah1tfrV raa tho altar ~ kha afnCk
company. l was the young Duke of York
in Richard III and was then 8 years old.
Last winter I was 70, and. strange as It may
seem. the last part l took was that Of the
duchess OF fork. assisting Mr.. Mantell.
in the interval OF seventy years, in this
one play alone, I have filed the parts. besides
Anne, the Prince Of WaLes. and at the benefit
Of Kate Fisher. that Of the Earl OF Rich
m0nd. Quite a repertoire for a single piece.
Is it not?"
Mrs. Jones folds her hands in her lap;
her cheeks have the faint pink OF a young
girls. and her blue-gray eyes are keen
and clear. She seems to be gazing straight
at a portrait of herself when as Kate Cody
in a play OF that name she starred about
the country with Buffalo Bill as leading
y L1lb hOlllNtCr hllaaAC III SUN
deep impression as the fact that he killed
sixty-two buffaloes in one day and gained
a name and fame between dawn and
sunset.
There is hardly q star known in the old
days that l have net played with she
went on. Among these are Forrest,
Charlotte Cushman, the Wallacks, E. l..
Davenport, father Of Fanny, with whom 1
played during her last season, and a little
gold ring she gave me l wear suspended
from my neck to-day. Then I recall F. B.
/ Conway, Charles Kean and his wife, Ellen
/ Tree; Thomas Hsmblin, a great favorite
at the old Bowery Theatre; A. A. Adams,
a rival OF Forrest for first place and by
] many preferred to him; Scott, another
actor now forgotten, but h well estab-
lished; Julia Dean, as we'll known as Mar
lowe is to-day.
Il played with Clara Morris during her
last season at the Fourteenth Street Theatre
and was with Mrs. John Drew the last time
she played in Brooklyn at the benefit for
Mr.. Edwin Knowles. These are but a few.
Il used to be very slender and often
took boys parts. l was cast for some
masculine role the first time that Charles
Klein went on the stage. He was just out
OF college then and stagestrlok.
Il consider his The Lion and the Mouse
one OF the very best modern plays l have
seen. It is clean. bright and dramatic. I like
il especially because it is 80 far removed
from the dramas of the Ibsen, Tolstoi,
Sudermann class. Those I abhor. / could