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New Zealand Mail, 21 February 1901, Page 25

The new Doncaster Workhouse, erected and furnished at a cost of nearly A 70,000, has been opened. The news has. just been received from England of the death of Miss Marriott, an actress and vocalist, who will be remembered by old residents of Wellington as the daughter of Mr J. H. Marriott, who kept a- stationery and bo )k----.sbop for many years on Lambton quay. ‘‘Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper” of 30rh December says of her:—"ln Miss. Marriott death has removed one of- ; the most talented actresses of tier generation. Her aspirations were towards the loftiest plane of her art, and she had the mental no less than the phy deal means to realise- them when the golden opportunities occurred. She was an admirable Bianca (in Dean Milmau’s ‘Fazio,’ tlie play in which she made her metropolitan debut in 1854 at Drury Lane), Lady Macbeth, Duchess of Malfi and Margaret Elmore (“ Love’s Sacrifice"), and played Hamlet- with_ considerable '.success. ' In : associatioac' with nearly all the eminent actors between the mid-fifties «Cnd eighties, Mbs Marriott wa.s seen in a, wide range of parts, and in all her ability was strongly manifested. Elderly playgoers will not forget, her forcible performance in the drama, “ The Orange- Girl,” at the Surrey, under Shepherd and Creswick, nor her pathetic impersonation of Jeannie Deans (" The Heart of Midlothian”) at various metropolitan and provincial theatres. As a manageress she did excellent work at Sadler’s Wells and the:. Standard. Miss Marriott had a beautiful contralto voice, rich, full and so perfectly under command as to be capable of the minutest shades of expression. Prior to her sudden death on Christmas night at her residence, 8, Bryantstorv street, Portmaa Square, at the ag e of seventy-six, she had not long been at-, .sent from the stage. She sustained the small, but important, part- of The Yengeance in the trial .scene of .“ The Only.Way ” at trie Prince of Wales’s s 6 recently as last spring. The deceased, who was the widow of Mr Robert Edgar, was buried vesterdav.” 7.’