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wary Andersen's p.-oOuction of The Winter*o Tale opened at tLc
Lyceum on 10 September ICo? and closed on 24 larch 1888. On
the final night Miss Andcroon made a speech:
Ladies and Gentlemen - oinco I first came among
you five years ago, you have GO loaded me v.ith
proofs of your sympathy and kindness that I ohould
indeed be ungrateful if I did not feel deeply my
parting from you. That a play LJO clascical should
in the nineteenth century have had the longest run
since the great inccter created it three hundred
years ago speaks much for the refined taste of the
London public. It seems iiard to say goodbye, but I
hope to be back ; gain in a year or GO» ' ith
Toccibly another Shake: pc rorji production. In tiic
aeantime, my friends, I thank you a thousand aat
a thousand times for all yaur kindness.
( .oportod in The ranatic 'i:oviev;,
31 arch 3>,Stf)
;iicc Anderson :"id not return to London as a professional rctraca
. nor rid die -reduce another ^lay by ohako nor re: in l r ..c ori; 1
i'lio 1 t:ce in otr.• tford-u-on- 'v;.:a. /ho perforraancc added li
to her ro-iata.tion as a Shake-., r> car can actress. In IMie^L
ih (31 '(iw.urrt 1-C5) Clo::ont oCOtt co : :'l iao- t iat
"occacio.. ^1 flashec of the true spirit aiii::i,?tin.:- ,.lr. •J.:os;''caro 'c
lovely creation" ,;ere vitiated by "la-jc-oc into heaviness,...
cV.v action, rtuoiod pocec, and doo.?-voiccd, aiiecte^ uttcrrnce".
The tr "-Q r::u~: -oatcd that, bein*- by nature "the ideal vx.y
"iacbeth", c;lio v/; s not 1'itted for t.h.c 'art, and flat in tlic
first act she '• :'" oved "c^-miro \ithout archness and non> .''cr^uc;