“On the first night, after the performance, I started home for supper, when it occurred to me that perhaps Miss Anderson would like something to eat after her hard work. So I called at Dr. Griffin’s rooms in West Twenty-eighth Street and found the future Queen of Tragedy eating a cold pork chop as she sat on a trunk. The whole party accepted my invitation and we went to the nearest restaurant. On our way we passed a candy store and Mary looked so longingly at the window that I asked whether she would like some candy. ‘Oh, yes!’ she cried, and jumped up and down on the pavement with pleasure. She selected a pound of molasses cream drops and commenced to eat them at once. The supper began with oysters on the half shell. To see Mary Anderson eat oysters and candy alternately was terrible; but a handsome girl may do anything unrebuked. “The papers were very kind to Miss Anderson during her first engagement. She made a success of youth and loveliness; but the public did not rush in to see her. “After a while, Henry Watterson, who had known her in Louisville, came to town and took an interest in her. He brought with him ex-Governor Tilden, who was taken behind the scenes to be introduced to the new star. He whispered to me, ‘What a remarkably handsome girl! No actress, but how very handsome!’” [156] Her repertoire at this time (1879) was: Bianca in _Fazio_; Juliet in _Romeo and Juliet_; Lady Macbeth (the sleep-walking scene); Parthenia in _Ingomar_; Berthe in _The Daughter of Roland_; Julia in _The Hunchback_; Pauline in _The Lady of Lyons_; Meg Merriles in _Guy Mannering_; Evadne in _Evadne_; Duchess of Torrenucra in _Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady_; Ion in _Ion_; soon afterwards she added the Countess in Knowles’ _Love_, Galatea in _Pygmalion and Galatea_, and Desdemona in _Othello_ (once only). [157] Miss Anderson said that during this search she considered W. S. Gilbert’s _Brantingham Hall_, but, as the chief character was not adapted to her, she declined it. Gilbert amusingly asked her if this was because she found anything gross in it. “For,” he said, “I hear that you hate gross things so much that you can hardly be induced to take your share of the gross receipts.” [158] On the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth performance of _The Winter’s Tale_ at the Lyceum, Miss Anderson was presented with a large laurel wreath from which were suspended a number of streamers in blue and gold, and bearing the names--three hundred and ninety-two in number--of all the members of the company and staff of the theatre, even to the call boy. In the center of the wreath, and supported by chains, was a brass tablet with the inscriptions: “_En Souvenir_ of the One-hundred and Fiftieth performance of _The Winter’s Tale_, presented to Miss Mary Anderson by the members and employees, Lyceum Theatre, London, March 2, 1888,” and on the other side: