. W. Thoman
Count J. A. Smith
Balthazar J. L. Monroe
Lopez G. H. Finn
Campillo A. Bradley
Lupez S. F. Palmer
Juliana Mrs. Barrett
Volante Mrs. Thoman
Zamora Miss Adelaide Phillips
In which she will sing "Ah, What Full Delight," from
the opera of the "Bohemian Girl."
Hostess Miss Rees
Fancy dance - Miss Arvilla.
Comic dance - Masters Adrian and Fred Phillips.
Conclude with
THE SWISS COTTAGE.
Corporal Max L. Mestayer
Nat. Tick W. Warren
Lisette Miss Adelaide Phillips
In which she will sing "France, I Adore Thee," and
"Liberty for Me."
A great attraction in Boston, way back in the fifties, was Anna Cora
Mowatt. Her engagements were always very successful, the theatre being
crowded with fashionable and intelligent audiences. Mrs. Mowatt was
not a great actress. Delicacy was her most marked characteristic. "A
subdued earnestness of manner, a soft musical voice, a winning
witchery of enunciation, and indeed an almost perfect combination of
beauty, grace, and refinement fitted her for a class of characters in
which other actresses were incapable of excelling." Mrs. Mowatt was
born at Bordeaux, France, during the temporary residence there of her
parents about 1820. She married very young, and for a short time
enjoyed every luxury that wealth could purchase. Her husband's
bankruptcy drove her to the stage, where she made her first appearance
at the Park Theatre as Pauline, in "Lady of Lyons," June 13, 1845. Her
engagements here in Boston were played at the Howard Athenaeum, then
under the management of Mr. Wyzeman Marshall, who still lives, and can
be seen upon the principal streets of Boston almost daily. The
"houses" were very large, tickets being sold at public auction. At the
termination of her engagement she was serenaded at the hotel, and
throughout the country she met with the same flattering reception.
Mrs. Mowatt's favorite roles were Viola, Rosalind, and Parthenia,
characters now fresh in the public mind, made so by Miss Julia
Marlowe. Mrs. Mowatt made her last appearance on the
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