Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-01

An actress whose mastery of her art
and whose charm OF personality placed
her among the great Of all time. Ellen
Terry was as inspiring when death ap-
preached as she had been through .
long and brilliant life. These lines.
written near the end, gave unique char
acter TO her funeral services:
mo funeral gloom, my dears. when
am gone.
Corpse gazings, tears, black raiment.
graveyard grimnesS
Think of me as withdrawn into the
dimness
Yours still. you mine.
Remember all the best OF our past
moments and forget the rest,
And 30 to where I wait come gently
on"
were with Dame Ellen Terry at her
News from the dispatches. and it sug-
gestS that las the world was indebted
to Ellen Terry for the beauty and he
inspiration OF her life, so. too. it is
indebted TO her for taking from death
much of the depression and the dread
and the gloom that attends it" The
Milwaukee Journal welcomes "a thought
OF brightness for all who mourn" and
asks: How can gloom be any tribute
TO a memory that is bright?"
do the eyes see clearer as death
approaches?" asks the Boston Tram
script. with the answer: Perhaps not
always But in Ellen Terry's case de-
spite her lately falling faculties, one Is
fain to believe she spoke as a seer. In
that sense one receives her last wishes
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at large for all the world were and are
her friends" The Fort Worth Record
Telegram comments: she placed the
world In her debt half century ago
She added to that obligation yearly
But none was greater one or one
more to be taken home to the individual
In personal appreciation than this
latest one she gave us literally from
the wings as she saw the final cur
tain
Nov she has stepped of the stage"
says the Oakland Tribune, but long
ago she entered the tradition H. is
easy to imagine that Dame Terry, artist
and honor To her profession, Is well
coined on the other side by Irving,
Garrett, and. YES. viii Shake peare."
OF her dreams Of years gone by the
Ann Arbor Daily News emphasizes the
words of her last days. My heart Is
warm with the memories OF my friends
across the sea" and remarks: Thus
she went into the Beyond with heart
warm with affection for this country.
In her hour OF death Americas heart
therefore Is heavy"
Dame Terry was not alone great
actress. Her brilliant intellect would
have permitted her to shine In litera-
ture or any OF the arts" states the
Tulsa Daily World. while the Buffalo
Evening News feels that the woman
whom even Sarah Bernhardt called the
greatest actress In the world was placed
upon a pinnacle which no commenda-
ton by any lesser judges could raise
higher" The Savannah Press puts
her in a class alone" and the San An"
tonic Express offers the tribute, Ma
ture il chary OF her most valuable gifts
1t will be long before she raises up
another such actress"
Here In America We regarded Ellen
Terry one OF our own AYERS the
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, with the
conclusion as to the praise OF Bern
hardt: ITO have won such praise was
mighty achievement. for her day was
day Of the greatest players the world
has ever produced" The Dayton Daily
News observes that her pre-eminenee
In the poetic. romantic and c'eSStc
drama has not been questioned. = EN-
by such a carping critic as GeoFv~
Bernard Shaw" and that paper. ap.
praising her success as one largely ot
personality" adds that, like Maude
Adams. In her most successful parts, she
was simply her glorihed self
THE idol of two continents" Is de-