[Gutenberg 14758] • Mary Anderson

Excerpt from Mary Anderson: The Story of Her Life and Professional Career

HE writer of these pages feels some diffidence in presenting them to the public. They are a sketch - incomplete as any such sketch must be - of an artist whose career, if her life be prolonged, can hardly be said to have more than begun. There is a charm too in Mary Anderson, in her enthusiasm for her art, in her high and cultivated intelligence, in her sweet and gracious womanliness, which are far more easily felt than described. Very few actresses - none, indeed, of other than English birth have so endeared themselves to the English theatre-going public. Rare, indeed, are the names of those who have inspired friend ships so warm among some of the most gifted Englishmen and Englishwomen of their time. To have known Mary Anderson intimately is to have lived in the sunshine. To think of her is to be reminded of a line of the great poet of her native land When she passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

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