Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-08-24

ELLEN r. AND MRS. PHILIP sNowpEN.
1t is at her farm In Small Hythe,
Tenterden, England, that Miss Terry
Is preparing for her American tour
beginning the last day of October.
Here she potters about In her garden
among her animals and with her
guests, seeming to bring pets as well
as friends under the spell of her mag
netism, for to be with Ellen Terry
seems to mean to see with her eyes
and to make the love of Shakespeare
on the one hand and the simple life
OF the other the two most gorgeously
attractive things IN earth.
Miss Terry finds it hard to resist
pretty country cottages and has a
habit of buying them when they strike
her fancy. In all she has seven at
present. She keeps on buying more all
the time, 30 that generally there are
two or three charming Terry cot
tages In various parts of England for
sale, as, In fact, there are at the pres
ent moment. But Small Hythe Is her
favorite, land it is there that she will
complete the discourses which she is
preparing for America. She calls
them "discourses," because she OBJ
jects to the reports that she is going
across to lecture.
II am going over to talk to my
friends there" she said, mot lecture
them, and it is going to be about
Shakespeare. Can you see me stand
ing solemnly, all dressed in black,
with a high stiff collar and very
smooth hair, delivering an eulogy or
perhaps a learned exposition about
some n who doesn't need n eulo
gies from anybody! l can't even i'm
agine it.
81 suppose" she continued, you
want to know about my plans, and
that is just what | don't want to talk
about. Isn't it enough to know that l
am going to have a splendid time talk
ing to my friends all by myself and
that it is going to be about Shake
speare? l am not going to lecture at
all. / an going to give little dis
! courses about S~hakespeare's plays, be-
cause l love them better than anything
else, and / would like everybody to
love them ash do. My method will be
to go from grave to gay, from lively
to severe, to interest my hearers and
show them little side lights which seem
to have escaped the notice of many.
You see, 1t hasn't been their business
to look out for these little points,
whereas it has been mine.
II shall not speak of any n hero
inc, but many-Rosalind. Volumnia and
Imogen and others whom l specially
love-and l shall give little scenes TO
Illustrate my points. Shakespeare's
genius is so many sided that | can't
possibly attempt to interpret it by a
presy paper ON one heroine And even
If / did it wouldn't be Shakespeare.
1t would be such a small piece of him
that it couldn't be representative"
do you mean that you will act
some of the partsT'
Lots of them. whole scenes. 1
couldn't give my Interpretation with
out it. And / shall dress up, possibly
In Elizabethan costume. But l don't
think | shall change during the dis
course. That might seem just a little
bit too much like a circus, and, besides,
i cannot feel that 1t would be artistic.
And If my little discourse were not
artistic it would fail on most of its
points"
"Will you not have more than one
subject?"
There will be two anyway, perhaps
three or even more. To some audi
ences / shall speak OF Shakespeare's
women, to some OF the letters In
Shakespeare's plays and to others of
how Shakespeare knew everything in
the world before anybody was ever
born or thought of-'Shakespeare the
Prophet
Mrs. Philip Snowden is another
charming Englishwoman who VIII
again lecture In America this fall.
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