Northern Star about Charlotte Cushman, June 28, 1845

Northern Star about Charlotte Cushman, June 28, 1845

Actors and Actresses--US American

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876

Praise

The Northern Star

1845-06-28

Reference

THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—The manager of this, "the prettiest theatre in London," deserves well of the English public for introducing to them Miss Cushman, the American actress. She is by far the best female performer on the stage. Devoid of rant-possessing little of mere stage +++—with a face and voice calculated to tell against her rather than in her favour, she has the rare art of delineating passion and feeling in such truthful manner that the audience are irresistably carried away with her efforts, and hail her with enthusiastic demonstrations of applause. Those who have seen her Mrs. Haller will never forget it; nor will the remembrance of her Meg Merrilies be spreadily effaced from the mind. It was, we are bold to say, the only impersonation of Scott's Meg ever witnessed—There was the figure, the features; the powerful and almost masculine mind, with its +++ aberrations, but +++ with absorbing interest in the fortunes of +++ +++ —indeed it was Meg Merrilies herself: her that hold the Gipsy tribe in awe;

Northern Star (1837-1852), 28th June 1845, Edition 1 of 3, Page 8, Untitled Article
https://ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1321/page/8/articles/ar00810/

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