[193] Mr. Walkley wrote in _The Times_ an eloquent tribute to her Viola, which he found “bewitching.” “In the purely sensuous element in Shakespeare, in the poet’s picture of frankly joyous and full-blooded womanhood, the actress is in her element, mistress of her part, revelling in it and swaying the audience by an irresistible charm. She aims at no startling ‘effects’; she seems to be simply herself--herself, that is, glorified by the romance of the part--enjoying the moment for the moment’s sake, and so making the moment a sheer enjoyment for the spectator. That is now clearly shown which in her earlier parts could only be divined--that here is a genuine individuality, a temperament of real force and peculiar charm. High-arched brows over wide-open, eloquent eyes; a most expressive mouth, now roguish with mischief, now trembling with passion; a voice with a strange croon in it, with sudden breaks and sobs--these, of course, are purely physical qualifications which an actress might have and yet not greatly move us. But behind these things in Miss Marlowe there is evidently an alert intelligence, a rare sense of humor and a nervous energy which make, with her more external qualities, a combination really fine. She beguiled not only Olivia, but the whole house to admiration. Here, then, is one of Shakespeare’s true women.” [194] Elizabeth McCracken. [195] One can doubt the _entire_ truth of this statement without denying the larger truths lying in her general statement. [196] James Kiskadden died when Maude was ten years old. [197] In San Francisco. [198] Acton Davies--_Maude Adams_. [199] Part of the time, at least, Mrs. Adams substituted herself for Maude when the time for this plunge arrived. [200] “Yes, I confess it,” she has declared, “I was in the ballet for six brief months. There is much to be learned there, and some the ballet’s teachings may be advantageously applied to the art of acting. Studied forms of dancing are not, perhaps, an essential part of a player’s outfit, but they have a certain related value not to be lightly esteemed.”--Perriton Maxwell. [201] Perriton Maxwell. Her parts in Mr. Sothern’s company were: Louisa in _The Highest Bidder_, and Jessie Deane in _Lord Chumley_. [202] Produced at Palmer’s Theatre, New York, October 3, 1892. It was a French play, adapted by Clyde Fitch. [203] Her parts were: Suzanne in _The Masked Ball_, 1892; Miriam in _The Butterflies_, 1894; Jessie Keber in _The Bauble Shop_, 1894; Marion in _That Imprudent Young Couple_, 1895; Dora in _Christopher, Jr._, 1895; Adeline Dennant in _The Squire of Dames_, 1896; Dorothy Cruikshank in _Rosemary_, August, 1896. On December 9, 1896, she played Mary Verner in _Too Happy by Half_.