Ellen Terry and Her SistersPemberton, T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar)
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Ellen Terry and Her Sisters
Pemberton, T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar)
Actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography; Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928
letter to Mr. Wills, 164;
life-long devotion to her art, 299;
lovableness of, 42;
marriage of, to Mr. Charles Wardell (Charles Kelly), 137;
marvellous powers as a child, 34-36;
Miss Geneviève Ward's tribute, 42;
on nervousness of, on first nights, 38;
audiences, 173;
on her rôle as Portia, 155;
on her Shakespearean triumphs, 190;
personal impressions made by, 296-303;
plays to Claude Melnotte, 150;
preparing for Lady Macbeth, 264;
programme of, in 1860, 51;
reappears in "The Wandering Heir," 138;
reminiscences by, 24. 299-303;
reminiscences of, by an actor in the Bristol Company, 61-69;
rendering of "The Captive" by, 239;
returns to star at Bristol, 73;
Sarah Bernhardt on, 288;
Shakespearean record of, 153;
still with us, 310;
time-honoured theatrical name, a, 13;
touring with her husband, 171;
tribute of, to Charles Reade, 140
Terry, Florence, as Little Nell, 193;
brief stage career of, 205-206;
death of, 206;
in "The Robust Invalid," 193
Terry, Fred, as Sebastian, 255
Terry, Kate, as Dora, 112;
as Fechter's leading lady, 103;
as Ophelia, 106;
at the Adelphi, 111;
at the St. James's, 98;
bids farewell to the stage as Juliet, 115;
demonstration provoked by, 116-118;
early criticism of, 37;
farewell speech on her retirement, 117;
first appearance of, 31;
in "Friends or Foes," 99;
in "Home for the Holidays," 52;
in "Hunted Down," 110;
in the Bristol Stock Company, 60;
marvellous powers as a child, 34-36;
play-bill with her name, under Charles Kean's management, 92-98;
plays with Henry Neville, 109;
reminiscences of, 66;
rôles played by her at the Olympic, 109;
the idol of playgoers, 101
Terry, Marion, as Gretchen, 201;
Clement Scott on, 195;
criticism of her Gretchen, 202;
first appearance of, in 1873, 194;
her rôles at the Olympic, 195;
in "Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith," 196;
in "Engaged," 197-200;
with Forbes Robertson, 205;
with George Alexander, 205;
with the Bancrofts, 204
Terry-Lewis, Miss Mabel, in "Ours," 119-120
"The Amber Heart," cast of, 261
Theatrical stock companies, 57
Toole, John L., in "Robert Macaire," 250
Tree, Beerbohm, in "The Amber Heart," 261
"Twelfth Night" at the Lyceum, 252
Vernon, W. H., on the Terry sisters, 73
Vezin, Hermann, as the Vicar of Wakefield, 164
Ward, Miss Geneviève, at the Lyceum, 278, 282;
tribute of, to Ellen Terry, 42
Willard, E. S., in "The Amber Heart," 261
Wills, W. G., as a playwright, 162;
Ellen Terry's affection for his plays, 164
Winter, William, letter of, about Ellen Terry, 303
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