. Shakespeare on the stage. prime, was not perfect dra-matic art there is no such thing,— And there is nothing left remarkableBeneath the visiting moon. ELLEN TERRY AS A LECTURER. Twenty-seven years, almost to the day, after herfirst dramatic appearance in New York,—October30, 1883, at the Star Theatre, as Queen HenriettaMaria, in Willss picturesque and pathetic play ofKing Charles I.,—Ellen Terry made her firstappearance in that capital as a Lecturer and, at theHudson Theatre, November 3, 1910, delivered a dis-course, diversified by readings, on ShakespearesHeroines—Triumphant. Many things, i
. Shakespeare on the stage. prime, was not perfect dra-matic art there is no such thing,— And there is nothing left remarkableBeneath the visiting moon. ELLEN TERRY AS A LECTURER. Twenty-seven years, almost to the day, after herfirst dramatic appearance in New York,—October30, 1883, at the Star Theatre, as Queen HenriettaMaria, in Willss picturesque and pathetic play ofKing Charles I.,—Ellen Terry made her firstappearance in that capital as a Lecturer and, at theHudson Theatre, November 3, 1910, delivered a dis-course, diversified by readings, on ShakespearesHeroines—Triumphant. Many things, in that inter-val,—during which she had given about 1,500 per-formances in America,—had changed and broken:there was but little change in her. Time, it was seen,had only touched with a pensive grace the affluentbeauty which it had not the heart to spoil. Her figurewas still imperial. Her movement still evinced thebuoyant freedom of the curling wave. Her smile stillflashed like a sudden sunbeam. Her rich voice was. From a pitotvyraph bu Wiiulou! and Groce, Lonil ELLEN TERRY AS PORTIA THE MERCHANT OF VENICE 223 still a strain of music. Her gestures stiH possessed theease, breadth, and spontaneity which always madethem absolutely appropriate and expressive. Shestill was Ellen Terry, the foremost inspirationalactress of her time; a woman of authentic genius,whose dramatic art,—often exquisite, more often law-less and wild,—derived an unpremeditated, enchant-ing felicity from her opulence of womanhood,tenderness of heart, unerring intuition, and passionateardor. Not in any period,—as far as can be learnedfrom historic records, certainly not in our period,—has the stage presented such a striking example aswas shown by Ellen Terry of the union of wildgenius with practical sense in the conduct of pro-fessional life, and trained skill with vagrant, intuitiveimpulse in the art of dramatic expression. She hadrivals in specific walks of the drama, but essentially,as a pe
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