. The life and art of Edwin Booth and his contemporaries . Story of Helena Modjeska,p. 132. Deft hands called Chopins music from the she sat, her slender figures poiseFlower-like and fine and full of lofty ease ;She heard her Polands most consummate voiceFrom power to pathos falter, sink and change ;The music of her land, the wondrous, high,Utmost expression of its genius strange,—Incarnate sadness breathed in and thrilled she sat, her lovely faceFlushing and paling like a delicate roseShaken by summer winds from its reposeSoftly this way and that, with tender grace,N
. The life and art of Edwin Booth and his contemporaries . Story of Helena Modjeska,p. 132. Deft hands called Chopins music from the she sat, her slender figures poiseFlower-like and fine and full of lofty ease ;She heard her Polands most consummate voiceFrom power to pathos falter, sink and change ;The music of her land, the wondrous, high,Utmost expression of its genius strange,—Incarnate sadness breathed in and thrilled she sat, her lovely faceFlushing and paling like a delicate roseShaken by summer winds from its reposeSoftly this way and that, with tender grace,Now touched by sun, now into shadow turned,—While bright with kindred fire her deep eyes burned !Celia Thaxter, in Scribners Monthly», May, 1878. MISS CLARA MORRIS. Touched by the fervor of her art, No flaws to-night discover !Her judge shall be the peoples heart, This western world her secret given to her alone No frigid schoolman taught her :—Once more returning, dearer grown, We greet thee, Passions daughter ! Edmund Clarence CLARA MORRIS. MISS CLARA MORRIS. Though I think Clara Morriss career virtually datesfrom that September [13th] evening in 1870 when,an utterly unknown actress from somewhere outWest, she took the New York public by storm as theheroine of Wilkie Collinss Man and Wife, it is,nevertheless, a fact that she had been for some yearsa recognized Leading Woman in such cities asCleveland, Louisville, and Cincinnati, and had pre-viously played every line of business, from smartsoubrettes to tragedy queens, as occasion in the hard school of a western theatre (thehouse managed by Mr. John Ellsler in Cleveland),Miss Morris, like Claude Melnotte, rose from theranks; only the battalion where she graduated was thecorps du ballet, which consisted of a limited numberof western maidens, addicted to giggling, and to un-limited indulgence in chewing gum—a delicacy whichfigures largely in the now celebrated actresss viva-cious imita
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