The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-17

OF the sailors relatives merely fret him.
The body of the boy floats TO the shore,
and is identified by the earrings. The
other mother walls very humbly and
goes away. The capitalist gives her no
aid but issues proclamation of SYM
pafhy for the men of the Good Hope.
and appeal for money for their wives
and mothers.
Ellen Terry is a great actress That
has been known long and amply rec
Oenized. 1t has not ceased to be fact
And for her performance of the Dutch
fiehWife In THE Good Hope" she
seemed to have pulled herself together
for supreme effort. Her bad memory
which need not be accounted to ad-
Vancing age inssmUch as it was as bad
ten years ago, mars her acting with un-
certainties. false starts and recourses
to he promoter cannot fail to ruin H.
fusion. Actors asking her questions
had TO whisper the answers TO her.
and sometimes repeat them, before she
could fix words I'm her mind as to
speak them to the audience. But this
was less a blemish upon her perform
ance than that which nature created
I'm the making of her Ellen Terry is
a beautiful woman and time, though
agein2 that beauty, has not effaced il.
She is fascinating with grace. refine
ment and delicacy-beautiful with in
teHectuality of face, and regal with
innate dignity OF mind and person And
all these attributes, which have made
her a queen of tragedy, and a very god
dess of poetic comedy. Gisenabled her
TO embOdy the fishwife of Heitermans.
She endeavored to rOUghen her voice
and enunciation. and we saw the effort
without the intended effect; she
splashed her hands ciunsily in a bowl
of water, and we felt that she was
pla wing at coarseness: and wooden shod
though she was, she seemed to glide
like the fair Rosamond. The igures
around her were quaint with pictur-
esque Dutch rough sturdiDess: but she
was an ethereally lovely old lady. whose
cap was not of peasantry, but the linen
crown of a gentle duchess dowager.
Sitting In a surely conscious reprOduc-
ton of the famous Whistler portrait of
his mother, she added to the gentle,
lofty lOveliness Of that study in age a
beauty of face that made her posture
memorable.
When The Good Hope" was over.
Miss Terry seemed suddenly to fling
aside the fioodgates of her boundless
buoyancy in Nance Oldheld" as an
afterpiece.
An actress who resembles the Eng
American Henrietta Crosman. The re-
semblanee extends from face and fig
ure 10 voice and method. 1t stands the
test or seeing Terry in Nance OIdf1eld'
one night and CrOsTran in "All of
Sudden Peggy the next night. the
rharac ters being akin I'm hearty good
humoT believe that If either were
to substitute herself for the other in
any one scene, with copy of makeup
and costume, the audience would accept
The counterfeit for the genuine. If there
were doubts. they would arise close to
the stage and from nothing but the
much greater age OF the more famous
woman. I feel sure that Crosman has
not enhanced the natural likeness by
she has copied Terry's
wavs and means: for she was a very
slowly rising young actress" when the
other was fully risen, and too hard
worked in stock companies. If not too
Scant i'm purse, to go and study the
Englishwoman.
Henrietta Crosman had struggled
long and assiduously before she was
3 bile "a make New York discover her in
Mistress Nell" Now she reveals her !
self again i'm another saucy Irish lady !
ieIinea ton But "All of a Sudden Peg |
gy'' made a long tour before coming !
here. and so I must not give space to !
Ernest Denny comedy. but u liiOSe !
Who haven't seen it. | may say that the
Peggy of sudden impulse gets herself |
into what looks like an elopement with |
an English lordling that she spends a
night innocently. yet scan6alously, In
mis- bachelor apartments. and that her
Whims. caprices, suddeness and ever
keen seEse of hurnor make her char
lcier which Dion BOucicault would
have been glad to originator pla-
giarize: not a bOg-trOtter, though. but
4 oarpter-tresder-
Why isn't Henrietta Crosman as In
rnationally celebrated as Ellen Ter
~. it. as | say. she is a double of that
actress? Because she wasn't born in
England didn't chance upon a Henry
irving With whom ia wed herself in
dramatic art, and was STAGGERED in
he arriving. United States. instead of
he arrived Great Britain. The differ
4nce was in opportunity. l love them
both for being players of cOngeniality, |
Who have caused more smiles than
ears
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