The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-23
TODAY IN HISTORY
WHAT HAPPENED OCTOBER %.
Pretty Nance OIdHcId.

Todny is the birthday Of pretty Anne
Oldheld, or Nancy" Oldheld, AS sile
became known after she had tho Whoic
OF London at her feet as tho most bcau-
| tiful most charming and most vcrsatnc
actress who had graccd tho CngiiSn
stage. No actress since her time mas
boen more popular than WAS NANCY.
The court raved over her. the CRITICS
lauded her to the skies tho poets wrote
sonnets to her. and the public throngeo
the theater nightly during the height
OF her SUCCESS.
Even the sneerng Pope, who loved TO
make game OF any public Refs1manSi'e sonar,
lished Sober Advice from Horace:
Engaging oldheld! who with grace and
Could Join the arts to ruin and to
please,
Ample testimony is borne of the beau
ty. vivacity and charm of Nancy Old
field AS TO her art. she Is said 10 nave
had few equals as an exponent Of nolh
and
Of a superior height, but with lovely
proportion: and the dignity Of her sonl
equal TO her force and stature; stature, mace a9S
good natured to all that deserved "
Campbell masjnes her to have been the
most beautiful woman that ever trou
tho British stage.
Cibber wrote more than one OF his
famous plays with special view 70
her The extent Of her powers could
riet; ricty Of Of characters She played Steele;
IN the ''rat1er'' and the Spectator
bears warm tribute to her distinction
and her power; swift. IN his JonrnSi ID
tho drab that acts Cato's daughter
Nancy Oldheld was much caressed by
people OF fashion. and generally went
10 the theater in chair, attended ny
two footmer. and in n. dress she had had
worn at some aristocretic dinner The
actress was the granddaughter OF Vint-
guards. and was born at Pail Mall on
October 23. 1853 AS n young girl she
worked as seamstress. but. she spent
all her spare time reading plays; Far
uihar. the drematist, overheard her re-
citing passages from one OF Beaumont
and Fletcher's plays, and expressed
favorable opinion OF her capacity.
When not dozen years old she was
introduced to the manager OF the Drury
Lane theater who offered her an en-
eaeement NJ a weekly salary Of Is shil-
character in which she appeared was
IN an original part IN a prose adaPta,,
tIon by Nanbrush. OF the Pilgrim; OF
Beaumont and Fletcher produced In
appearance on the stage as Lady Brute
IN the Provoked Wife" on April IS.
1870. She died several months later
Afler lying In state in the JeruSalcm
church. her body was buried beneath
tho monument OF Congreye in Westmin-
ster Abbey. at the west end Of tho nave
According to the testimony Of her maid
Margaret Saunders. she was Inferred ''in
a very fire Brussels lace he1d, Hoi-
land shift and double rufleS Of the
same lace. pair OF new kind gloves
and her body wrapped in a winding
This elicited from Pope the well known
lines:
"odious. in woolen, 'twould a saint pro-
We're the last words that poor Narcisse
spoke;
No. let a charming ch'ntz and BrusseS
lace
Wrap my cold limbs and shade my life
less face
One would not. sure. be frightful when
And-Betty-give this cheek a little red"
son Of Mrs oldfeld married Lady
Mary Walpole. and the actress was thus
connected, through marriage. with some
of the principal families in England. In
Guiding that Of the duke OF Wellington.
Today is The birthday of Thomas
Pinckncy. the American statesman and
G7j0l: Marshal Andouche
Junot the French commander t11D;
Francis. Lord Jeffery the English states
man and critic GTI3): John r, Bartlett.
ihe American author dSO5): James W.
Denver. the Colorado pioneer and states
man after whom Denver was named
dSl7); John r. Thompson. the poet and
journalist dSc3); Adai e. stevenson.
vice president under Cleveland ClS35); |
and Francis Hopkuson Smith the engi-
o.. tth nG prt