INDEX
Reading edition
Actors, and first nights, 172;
fleeting fame of, 5;
generosity of, 159;
love to die in harness, 6;
nervousness of great, 39
Adams, Mr. Davenport, criticism by, 177
Alexander, George, at the Lyceum, 245
Anderson, Mary (Madame de Navarro), letter of, about Ellen Terry, 307
Archer, William, 290
Bancrofts, the, as managers, 146
Belford Benefit at the Lyceum, the, 232
Bernhardt, Sarah, on Irving and Ellen Terry, 288
Betterton, facts about, 23
Blanchard, Edward Leman, criticism of Ellen Terry by, 76
Booth, Edwin, at the Lyceum, 243
Bristol Stock Company, famous members of the, 59, 61
"Broken Hearts," the three Terry sisters in, 206
Buckstone, J. B., and E. A. Sothern, 75
Burbage, facts about, 23
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, designer of the scenery of "King Arthur," 281;
on the "Amber Heart," 259
Byron, H. J., plays by, 154, 202, 212, 213
Calmour, Alfred C., history of his play, "The Amber Heart," 259;
letter from Ellen Terry to, 265
"Charles I.," the writing of the play, 227
Chute, Mr. J. H., theatrical company under, 59
"Cinderella," the origin of the tale of, 12
Circuit players in the olden days, 20
Clayton, John, in "A Household Fairy," 136
Coghlan, Charles, as Claude Melnotte, 150;
as Shylock, 143
Cole, John William, tribute by, 36
Coleman, John, a memory by, 20
Command performance of "The Bells," &c., 269
Compton, Edward, experiences of, 59;
plays in his father's benefit, 159
Compton, Henry, encourages Ellen Terry, 87;
benefit for, 153
Conway, H. B., at the Court Theatre, 156
Cook, Mr. Dutton, criticisms by, 32, 148, 161, 166, 220
Coquelin, criticisms of the Lyceum "Madame Sans-Gêne" by, 291;
on Ellen Terry, 288, 290
Craig, Gordon, 256, 270, 303
Craig, Miss Ailsa, 256, 272
De Rhona, Madame Albina, at the Royalty Theatre, 53
Dickens, Charles, admiration of, for Fechter, 106;
letter of, to Macready, 120, 127
Dramatists, hints to, 7;
what they have to aim at, 28
Duse, Signora, and Ellen Terry, 302
Farren, William, at the Haymarket, 87
Fechter, Charles, as Hamlet, 105;
facts about, 102;
leading lady of, 103
Filon, Augustin, criticism of Ellen Terry by, 286
First nights at the Lyceum, 219
Fitzgerald, Percy, criticisms by, 217, 225.
Garrick, David, idiosyncrasies of, 83
Gordon, Walter, facts about, 87
Hare, John, production of "Old Men and New Acres" by, 157;
production of "Olivia" by, 163;
production of "The House of Darnley" by, 163
Howe, Henry, a memory of, 85;
in "King Lear," 276
Irving, Laurence, plays by, 292
Irving, Sir Henry, adverse criticisms of, 212;
as Charles I., 226;
as Napoleon, 291;
as Shylock, 147, 229;
attracts the notice of Charles Dickens, 213;
criticism of his first night at the Lyceum, 220;
criticism of his Hamlet, 223;
engages Ellen Terry as leading lady, 217;
his first appearance, 209;
his first night as King Lear, 273-276;
his first success, 3;
in his great rôles, 212;
in "Werner," 257;
modesty of, 217;
never forgets old friends, 210;
on his rôle of Doricourt, 241;
popularity of, 214;
Sarah Bernhardt on, 288;
the good taste of, 216;
twenty-five years ago, 208
Kean, Charles, at the Princess's Theatre, 30, 40;
Ben Terry, assistant-manager to, 23;
early days of, 22;
latter days of, 48;
the mounting of his plays, 44;
three memories of, 46
Kean, Edmund, facts about, 22;
last act of, 47;
his appearance as Shylock, 46;
the end of his career, 47
Kean, Mrs., as stage-mistress to Ellen Terry, 40, 41
Kelly (Wardell), Charles, as an actor, 137;
as Benedick, 188;
death of, 256
Kemble, John Philip, facts about, 23
Kemble, Roger, facts about, 19
Kemble, Sarah, marriage of, 22
Kendal, Mrs., on her profession, 27
Kenney, Charles Lamb, benefit for, 161
Knight, Joseph, criticisms by, 147, 168, 201, 223
Lacy, Walter, in "If the Cap Fits," 43
Leathes, Edmund, facts about, 140
Litchfield, Mrs., as "The Captive," 239
Lyceum Company sail for New York, 251
Mackaye, Steele, as Hamlet, 194
Macklin, Charles, on Shylock, 144
M'Cullough, John, a meeting with, 84
Marston, Dr. Westland, views of, on spectacular revivals, 44, 48
Mathews, Frank, in "If the Cap Fits," 43
Molière, the death of, 193
Neville, Henry, as Farmer Allan, 114;
his company at the Olympic, 195;
supported by Kate Terry, 108
Olympic Theatre, famous cast at the, 109
Queen Victoria's acknowledgments to Irving and Ellen Terry, 270
Queen's Theatre, Longacre, the past of, 133
Reade, Charles, as a playwright, 134
Rignold, William, as Lord Dundreary, 73
Robertson, Forbes, as Lancelot, 283
Robertson, T. W., story of, 28
Rorke, Kate, Ellen Terry's opinion of, 265;
first appearance of, 170
Royal entertainments, bills of, 122-126
Ryder, John, as Hubert, 37
Scott, Clement, address written by, 233;
criticisms by, 21, 78, 100, 105, 168, 235, 242, 248, 284
Siddons, Henry, facts about, 22
Siddons, Sarah, facts about, 22, 23
Sothern, E. A., as Dundreary, 74;
in "The Crushed Tragedian," 203;
practical jokes of, 79-82;
story of, 39;
tribute to, 84
St. James' Theatre, cast under the management of Mr. Alfred Wigan at, 98
Stage, the, according to Mrs. Kendal, 27;
fascination of, 1-8;
our first enthusiasm for, 10
Stoker, Bram, at the Lyceum, 224
Success, definition of, 49
Tawse, Mr. George, on Ellen Terry's first appearance, 32
Taylor, Tom, letter from, to Mr. Ben Terry, 129
Terriss, William, Ellen Terry and, 169
Terry, Ben, at the Princess's Theatre, 23;
career of, 18;
family of, the, 21;
pen-portrait of, 20
Terry, Daniel, a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott, 14, 15;
extracts from Scott's diary about, 16-18
Terry, Ellen, a queen of actresses, 11;
and Harley, 41;
and her son in "The Dead Heart," 270;
and Kate Terry at the Royal Colosseum, Regent's Park, 50;
and Macready, 41;
and Miss Geneviève Ward in "Becket," 278;
and Mrs. Kendal, 61;
and Oscar Byrn, 41;
appears at the Haymarket, 76;
as a pantomime fairy, 40;
as Cordelia, 272;
as Gertrude in "The Little Treasure," 76;
as Irving's Ophelia, 222;
as Juliet, 246;
as Lady Macbeth, 267;
as Lady Teazle, 162;
as Letitia Hardy, 241;
as Madame Sans-Gêne, 290;
as Mamillius, 37;
as Margaret in "Faust," 256;
as Nance Oldfield, 279;
as Olivia, 166;
as Philippa Chester, 139;
as Portia at the old Prince of Wales', 142,
at the Lyceum, 229-231;
as Prince Arthur, 40;
as Puck, 39;
as Viola, 255;
as Volumnia, 293;
at six years old, 31;
at the Court Theatre, 156;
at the Queen's Theatre, 132;
at the Royalty, 54;
Augustin Filon's tribute to, 286;
billed for the opening night of the New Theatre Royal, Bath, 70;
birth of, 21;
Christmas Day, experiences of, 25;
Clement Scott on her Beatrice, 248-250;
compares the work and pay of past and present actors, 45;
comparison between her and Sarah Bernhardt, 289;
Coquelin's opinion of, 288;
criticism of her Imogen, by Clement Scott, 284-286;
criticism of her Olivia, 167;
criticism of her Portia, 147-148;
dates of her earliest performances, 32;
Davenport Adams on Ellen Terry as Beatrice, 177-190;
earliest impression of Irving, 136;
early criticism of, 37;
experiences of, in the Bristol Stock Company, 60;
extract from her "Stray Memories," 42;
first appearance of, 30,
at the Lyceum, 220;
first performance with Sir Henry Irving, 135;
her criticism of Mrs. Kendal, 301;
her criticism of Signora Duse, 302;
her first success with Charles Kean, 22;
her rôles at the Court Theatre, 156;
her rôles at the Haymarket, 88;
her touring rôles in 1878, 175;
impression created by, in America, 303-307;
impressions of her earliest childhood, 24;
in "Charles I.," 226;
in "Cymbeline," 283;
in "Eugene Aram," 226;
in "A Household Fairy," 136;
in "Godefroi and Yolande," 292;
in "Henry VIII.," 271;
in "If the Cap Fits," 43;
in "Iolanthe," 234;
in "King Arthur," 281;
in "Masks and Faces," 153;
in "Money," 153;
in "Our American Cousin," 77-79;
in "Ours," 153;
in "Peter the Great," 292;
in "Ravenswood," 271;
in "Robespierre," 292;
in "Still Waters Run Deep," 145;
in "The Amber Heart," 261-263;
in the Bristol Stock Company, 57;
in "The Cup," 235;
in "The Lady of Lyons," 151;
Joseph Knight's tribute to, 147;
letter to Mr. Wills, 164;
life-long devotion to her art, 299;
lovableness of, 42;
marriage of, to Mr. Charles Wardell (Charles Kelly), 137;
marvellous powers as a child, 34-36;
Miss Geneviève Ward's tribute, 42;
on nervousness of, on first nights, 38;
audiences, 173;
on her rôle as Portia, 155;
on her Shakespearean triumphs, 190;
personal impressions made by, 296-303;
plays to Claude Melnotte, 150;
preparing for Lady Macbeth, 264;
programme of, in 1860, 51;
reappears in "The Wandering Heir," 138;
reminiscences by, 24. 299-303;
reminiscences of, by an actor in the Bristol Company, 61-69;
rendering of "The Captive" by, 239;
returns to star at Bristol, 73;
Sarah Bernhardt on, 288;
Shakespearean record of, 153;
still with us, 310;
time-honoured theatrical name, a, 13;
touring with her husband, 171;
tribute of, to Charles Reade, 140
Terry, Florence, as Little Nell, 193;
brief stage career of, 205-206;
death of, 206;
in "The Robust Invalid," 193
Terry, Fred, as Sebastian, 255
Terry, Kate, as Dora, 112;
as Fechter's leading lady, 103;
as Ophelia, 106;
at the Adelphi, 111;
at the St. James's, 98;
bids farewell to the stage as Juliet, 115;
demonstration provoked by, 116-118;
early criticism of, 37;
farewell speech on her retirement, 117;
first appearance of, 31;
in "Friends or Foes," 99;
in "Home for the Holidays," 52;
in "Hunted Down," 110;
in the Bristol Stock Company, 60;
marvellous powers as a child, 34-36;
play-bill with her name, under Charles Kean's management, 92-98;
plays with Henry Neville, 109;
reminiscences of, 66;
rôles played by her at the Olympic, 109;
the idol of playgoers, 101
Terry, Marion, as Gretchen, 201;
Clement Scott on, 195;
criticism of her Gretchen, 202;
first appearance of, in 1873, 194;
her rôles at the Olympic, 195;
in "Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith," 196;
in "Engaged," 197-200;
with Forbes Robertson, 205;
with George Alexander, 205;
with the Bancrofts, 204
Terry-Lewis, Miss Mabel, in "Ours," 119-120
"The Amber Heart," cast of, 261
Theatrical stock companies, 57
Toole, John L., in "Robert Macaire," 250
Tree, Beerbohm, in "The Amber Heart," 261
"Twelfth Night" at the Lyceum, 252
Vernon, W. H., on the Terry sisters, 73
Vezin, Hermann, as the Vicar of Wakefield, 164
Ward, Miss Geneviève, at the Lyceum, 278, 282;
tribute of, to Ellen Terry, 42
Willard, E. S., in "The Amber Heart," 261
Wills, W. G., as a playwright, 162;
Ellen Terry's affection for his plays, 164
Winter, William, letter of, about Ellen Terry, 303
Wyndham, Charles, acts with Ellen Terry at the Queen's Theatre, 134;
acts with Kate Terry at Manchester, 121
Wyndham, Robert, criticism of Henry Irving by, 211
Yates, Edmund, farce by, 43
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