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. 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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