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Show CHARLOTTE CRAiVJPTON'S LAST APPEARANCE. A New York paper says, "Jokn MeCullougb, who is playing "Richelieu" "Riche-lieu" and "Virginius" in Chicago this week, describes the lust appearance appear-ance of Charlotte Crampton, who ditd in Louisville of yellow jaundice a week or two at;o, in her filty-ninth year. She performed the queen to liis Hamlet, and he draws tho following follow-ing vivid portrait of the dying actress; 'She was dying, nay, was almost dead at tho time. Her limbs were rigid, and her features so contracted that only the eyes and lips moved. Xler disease made her face a dark saffron color; she looked almost as dusky as Othello, and her eyes, dilated and with something fearfully weird in their expression, positively froze one's blood. She had to be led to the entrance?, en-trance?, but, once on the stage, was completely herself, except fur tli.it dreadful rigidity which marked her as in many respects already dead. Yet not a line or even a word of the part did alio mi.-s. Iu tiiis, her last appearanco before her beloved footlights, foot-lights, she was as perfect in her lines as when in the prime of her career, only tho mobility, the ease, the motion, mo-tion, were lacking, but these were things of the past and bad their being in Iho fulness of that vital ppark which was fast ebbing away. When her last scene closed and siio passed from tho stage through the entrance, one of the ballet girls made a movement move-ment to asoUt her down the steps that lod to the dressing rooms. The kindly oiler was rejected with a dignified gesture ges-ture and with eyes fixed iu death, I features rigid and limbs nearly par.il yzed, the once favorite actress slowly I dragged herself from the theatre for-I for-I over." |