Show DICKENS FITTED FOR STAGE kate field excellent judge of character confluent he might have been great actor no one ver ever paid a much higher tribute to dickens than att dt kate field she had bad the soul of 0 a joet poet a discriminating taste in art and literature and wide knowledge of 0 the world in mentality she was fully as 6 strong t tong as either of her brilliant brothers david dudley stephen J or cyrus W and she certainly was as good it if not a better judge ot of character she once wrote an appreciation of dickens in which she declared the world lost its greatest actor when doz boz became a writer she gave a description of one of 0 dickens readings that was masterly in its vividness of 0 detail such versatility as she credited dickens with displaying as he assumed the character of first one and then another of his creations the pathos the humor the tragedy he put into a tone the marvelous way in which he stirred the emotions of old and young in his audience would appear to be a bit extravagant were it not that now and then in later years some old man looked upon as stern and unemotional told with faltering voice how bow he be stood in line all one night ight to buy a ticket to one of boz readings and then went on to talk just about as miss field wrote only before h b got as far along in his story the tears nere running down his wrinkled cheeks his old heart strings still to the magic of the master |