MISS FORTESCUE INTERVIEWED.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3329, 29 May 1885, Page 3

MISS FORTESCUE INTERVIEWED.

Miss Forteacue has reached a dizzy height m her professional flight. She has been interviewed. The lucky interviewer was a Scotchman (says the envious Pall Mall), who ia probably thriftier of his bawbees than his adjective?. Miss Forteacue, ho saya, is " one of the most charming women I have evor met. She talks delightfully — affably, brightly, always intelligently, and without the least reserve. She is a thorough lady m everything she says and does. She has not an ill word to say of anybody. Miss Forteacue must not think me impertinent when I say she is very beautiful." One would almost think that this canny gentleman had his eyo on the Garmoyle dollars. "How do you like my dress to-night V asked the actreßS. " I think it is Bitting very nicely. Do you know, women's clothes are like women themselves. Thqy have their good nights and their bad nights. Sometimes they are bothersome, and get awry, and a pin goes a-missing here and another there, until they are just like — like some cross-grained old people," The conversation then turned to Galatea's character, glancing off to "Shakespearean drama " : — "No," said Miss Fortescue, with an emphatic shake of the head, "I shall never play Juliet as long as Miss Terry is alive. I am quite decided upon that. Of course you'vo seen Miss Terry play ? Isn't she exquisite ? — so- soft, bo tender, and so graceful. I think her Ophelia quite perfect, and as tine a performance as even Shakespeare could have wished to see. I hope Miss Terry won't think me impertinent for saying so, but, believe me, I would willingly walk ten miles with the legitimate unboiled peas m my boots for the sake of seeing her Ophelia. You ask me if I do not think of appearing m Shakespearean drama? Yes, I should like to play Romeo, and if I ever return to Glasgow I shall come to play Romeo." Miss Fortescue as Romeo would draw large houses.