Show c Vp V p r J t tt Ya f fj j People of l Mrs Gilberts Gilbert's Contemporaries William Villiam Winter who was writing well considered dramatic criticisms in I J New York when Mrs Gilbert began I her career with Daly told eloquently of her career in ill a recent article the j. 41 i closing paragraph of which is appended append append- v ed ld Mrs Vernon was the best in this i line until Mrs Gilbert came and the period which has seen Mrs Judah ludah Mrs Airs Vincent Mrs Germon Mary Mar Carr Mrs Chippendale Mrs Hind Hind Mrs Airs Phillips 1 Stirling Mrs Bit Bit- lington and ancI Mme has seen seen en no superior to Mrs Gilbert GUbert in her special pe cial walk Because o of her proficiency in youth south as a beautiful dancer her motions and spontaneous ease crise and grace She could assume assume the fine lady without suggesting the She I was waR equally good whether as the formal formal for formal for for- mal and severe matron of starched domestic life or the genial old dame of the pantry She could play Temperance Temperance Tem Tern perance in The Country Squire and equally she could play Mrs fr All varieties of ot the eccentricity of elderly elderly el el- derly women whether serious erlos or com om- z ic ic w were ere easily within her grasp Betsy Bet Bet- Betsy sy Trotwood embodied by her became became be be- came a living reality while on the theA theother other Ither hand she suffused with a sinister sinis sinis- 4 A ter horror her furtive stealthy gliding gliding rY ing uncanny of the dumb half Insane ane Hester l ter Q That was the first great success that Mrs Airs Mrs Gilbert GUbert gained under the management a of 01 Mr Dir Daly Her assumption of the Marquise de Ie St St. Maur was instinct with Most of her later g ar triumphs were obtained obtained as the formidably ably lady who typifies the domestic proprieties and the Nemesis of re re- It was her refined but severely regular presence that gave soul and wings to A Night Off From Miss fiss Garth to Mrs l Laburnum is is a far stretch of imitative talent for the e interpretation interpretation in in- nature that y of the woman everybody from down has found It difficult to treat Mrs Gilbert always impressed her audience with clear clear cut brilliant cut cut- brilliant identification with every type of character that she r assumed assumed but also she denoted her j own own Kind heart hoart and sweet and gentle 4 yet vet never insipid temperament the temperament the condition of sympathy graciousness t t and cheer which is the flower of a fine finet t nature and a good life Certain scenes i o in which which Mrs Gilbert t and Charles Charle Fisher isber or James Lewis participated as old married people will long be remembered for their their intrinsic beauty I. I ru I ia I iII 1 ll q Ir h 1 i j I j Ip t i. i s 11 II I II I I s rl A I I j ji ICI I i d I I I I II i j ul II I Ij ia lI III I Ii r j III II I r I I'M M e I t |