Note 158 — MARY ANDERSON
Reading edition
On the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth performance of The Winter’s Tale at the Lyceum, Miss Anderson was presented with a large laurel wreath from which were suspended a number of streamers in blue and gold, and bearing the names—three hundred and ninety-two in number—of all the members of the company and staff of the theatre, even to the call boy. In the center of the wreath, and supported by chains, was a brass tablet with the inscriptions: “En Souvenir of the One-hundred and Fiftieth performance of The Winter’s Tale, presented to Miss Mary Anderson by the members and employees, Lyceum Theatre, London, March 2, 1888,” and on the other side:
“‘The hostess of the meeting, pray you, bid the unknown friends to us welcome.... Come, quench your blushes, and present yourself that which you are, mistress o’ the feast.’...” The Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 4.