Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1883 — DRAMATIC TRIUMPH. [ARTICLE]

DRAMATIC TRIUMPH.

America's Great Tragic Actress Scores a Great Success in London. [London Cablegram to'New .York Herald.] The event of the week in the drarhatid ’ world was the debut of your fair country- . Woman, Miss Mary Anderson, which was made this evening at the Lyceum Theater, whose stage has been made classic by the genius of Henry Irving. Miss Anderson has been sufficiently long in London to have become personally known to many of the leaders of the apt world of the metropolis, I and it must be adm tted that she had scored a preliminary triumph in Winning golden opinions of herself as a women be- ; lore the opportunity of judging her as an artist bad been given. The evening was it's nearly perfect as a September night in London can ever be, and there was no counter-attraction of sufficient potency to keep away the best class of theatergoera The house, which has long witnessed the highest exhibitions of English ' dramatic art, was crowded, and it seemed as though the whole of artistic and critical Lopdon was assembled within its walls. The debutant’s reception in the mrst Act Was distirifctly friendly, and soon became tinged, with enUHisiasm. Her figure was seen. to u t>e a compian4ing from its height, i althdiigh girlish in its supple and almost setpentine slenderness, and'the simple and colorless drapery in which she had dressed ! the par>xxf Parthenia lent grace to her pose and carriage, which were-always statuesque, without bearing the least impress of or iMf-conisclouSness. The whiterobed.figure, with sinuous arms baaed to the shoulder ana abundant brown hair hanging freely from the shapely head, with the tremulous mouth and the curl of the short upperlip involuntarily suggesting pathetic power was a revelation, even to tuose of the audience who had seen this fair girl in | the conventional dress of the drawing-room or the promenade, and the ice of criticism rapidly me.ted iff the glow of an involuntary entbftSiam. The applause became more ana more, general, and it continued far beyond ! what any of her friends could have antici- I pated. The debutante stood long before the footlights gracefully bowing her thanks and essaying to begin the lines of her part I When at last she began to speak her rich- I ly-modulated voice provoked another salvo of applause. During the earlier portion of , this act there was a slight tremor, and the , actress seemed hardly at her ease, but this quickly wore away, and she became the noble, animated heroine of the half savage, haif-idyllic romance of “Ingomar.” The applause was generously renewed at the close of Parthenia s interview with Polydor, in which the maiden's noble devotion to filial love and duty was powerfully portrayed, and her speech in which she foreshaaows her resolution of self sacrifice was enthusiastically re-demanded. At the close of this ' act she wiis twice called before the curtain and applauded to the echo. The same recognition was given at the end of the second act, and an elaborate bouquet from Mrs. Labouchere s box was among the floral offerings which now began to ra n upon the stage. The third act confirmed the verdict of the other two, and decided beyond cavil the triumphant success of ti e debut Mr. Barnes’thc Ingomar of the play, was tvrice compelled to lead Parthenia before the curtain, and the cultured critics of the metropolis again became the claquers of .one of the most speedy and spontaneous successes of the London stage. After the performance the more deliberate judgment of the foyer and the clubs was found to have ratified the verdict of the play-housa It was decided by the coolest of the critics that Miss Anderson's performance had challenged the highest standard es criticism, and had fairly stood the ordeal; that she was equal to the best exponents of the dramatic art in England, and that in voice and gesture, in play of wit and fancy and in delineation of - human passions and human emotions she had shown herself worthy of the ovation which her genius had enforced.