Show On Stage for Fifty Years Mrs Samuel Charles tho oldest actress on tho stago In point of actual length of service gave a reception In New York recently in celebration of tho fiftieth nniversary of her professional profes-sional debut Mrs Charles was born I on a Mississippi steamboat mado her first appearance on tho stage at tho age of four In a pantomime with the elder Holland A six months Journey from St Paul to California In a prairie I schooner drawn by oxen and a stopover stop-over In Salt Lake City to fight a lawsuit law-suit with BrIgham Young are among her early recollections |