Show on stage for fifty years mrs samuel charles the oldest actress on the stage in point of actual length ot service gave a reception in ew york recently in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of her probes debut mrs charles was born on a mississippi steamboat made her first appearance on the stage at the age of four in a pantomime with the elder holland A six months journey from st paul to california in a prairie schooner drawn by oxen and a stop over in salt lake city to fight a law suit with brigham young are among her early recollections |