A FAMOUS ACTRESS.
Mr Austin Brereton, in an interesting article on Ellen Terry in the English Illustrated, gives Charles Reade’s opinion of the famous actress, which is worth quoting : * Ellen Terry is an enigma. Her eyes are pale, her nose rather long, her month nothing particular, complexion a delicate brick-dust, her hair rather like tow. Yet, somehow, she is beautiful. Her expression kills any pretty face you see beside her. Her figure is lean and bony, her hand masculine in size and form. Yet she is a pattern of fawn-like grace. Whether in movement or repose, grace pervades the hussy. In character impulsive, intelligent, weak, hysterical—in short, all that is abominable and charming in woman. Ellen Terry is a very charming actress. I see through and through her. Yet she pleases me all the same. Little duck.’ ,
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Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 45, 12 February 1898, Page 11
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