The stage life of Mary Anderson . lnay with manlygrace, making him both gentle and impetu-ous ; and Mr. Macklin invested the dissoluteRegent with appropriate attributes of ele-gance, hauteur, and menace. The prepara-tions for the central scene of this play are,perhaps, a little awkward; the plot is a little Mr. Robert-son as 128 MARY ANDERSON. Miss Ander-son as thestrollingplayer. incongruous. Only the most outrageousprovocation could lead a noble-mindedwoman to descend to Clarices scheme forrevenge. But the situation, once attained,has a prodigious dramatic value. Miss An-derson has pressed w
The stage life of Mary Anderson . lnay with manlygrace, making him both gentle and impetu-ous ; and Mr. Macklin invested the dissoluteRegent with appropriate attributes of ele-gance, hauteur, and menace. The prepara-tions for the central scene of this play are,perhaps, a little awkward; the plot is a little Mr. Robert-son as 128 MARY ANDERSON. Miss Ander-son as thestrollingplayer. incongruous. Only the most outrageousprovocation could lead a noble-mindedwoman to descend to Clarices scheme forrevenge. But the situation, once attained,has a prodigious dramatic value. Miss An-derson has pressed within the compass ofthis brief piece an astonishing display ofversatile professional skill. Her treatmentof the strolling-actor speech is such as wouldonly be possible to a close and deep ob-server of human life and a proficient deline-ator of the varying phases of human there remains a certain natural incon-gruity between the character and the actress;and artifice does not sit easily upon herartistic method. V PAULINE. Paulineagain. expenence >iss Anderson has embodied still November image of beauty andnobleness in woman; still an-other representative type of theof a womans heart. She hasappeared as Pauline, in the comedy of TheLady of Lyons. Like her previous works,this performance conspicuously shows thepower and value of devoted earnestness inthe service of art for its own sake. In otherhands The Lady of Lyons has sometimesseemed to be trivial; in her hands it is shownto be worthy of the best thought that can beexpended upon it. This, on the thresholdof achievement, is a victory. It long has been a critical custom toderide this comedy; but the custom isneither just nor wise. There is, no doubt,7* I29 Unwise todisparage The Ladyof Lyons. 130 Theatricalvalue of theold comedy. Love easilysatirised, butnot the lessnoble. MARY ANDERSON. improbability at the basis of its plot; ex-travagance in some of its incidents; such anexcess of sentiment in its spirit
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