“You ask me to tell you who, of all the players I have ever seen, is my favorite. My, but that is a hard question to answer! In fact, I don’t think I _can_ answer with just a name. I have so many favorites! It is a case of ‘Not that I love Cæsar less but Rome more!’ And then, too, I have seen and known so many players of so many different kinds--of _all_ kinds--and our moods vary. As I look back into my memory and try to call up the actors and actresses of the Past it seems to me that John McCullough was the most _lovable_ as a man and, in the great, heroic parts, the most satisfying as an actor. Barrett was the most _ambitious_; Booth was the most _powerful_ and _interesting_; Owens was the _funniest_ man I ever saw, and after him Raymond; Wallack was the most _polished_ and _courtly_; Salvini was the most _imposing_; Irving the most _intellectual_ and _dominating_; Mansfield the most _erratic_--and all of them were great actors and each of them, I think, was my special favorite! But if I could see only one more theatrical performance and had to choose which one of those actors I would see, I think I would choose Edwin Booth in _King Richard the Third_. “Of the women--Adelaide Neilson was easily the most _winsome_ and _passionate_. Modjeska was the most _romantic_. Mary Anderson was the _stateliest_, Ellen Terry the most _pathetic_, Ada Rehan the _greatest comedienne_, and Sarah Bernhardt--ah, what shall I say of the Divine Sarah!