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tana cake, with plenty of plums in it ! -1 learnt much of the greatest mterest. Dress 1s a very important matter with Miss Terry. She, with Mrs. Comyns Carr, designs her own costumes. Miss Terry thinks-—and rightly too-—that a dress should do much to indicate the character of the woman who is wearing it, as witness the dress she wears as Ladv Macbeth, which looks like a cotling snake. “T could have gone mad,” she said, “as Ophelia, much more comfortably in black than in white. But, oh! the little ins and outs cf which the public know nothing. Hamlet and Othello must be black, then Opliedia and Desde- moina must be white.” Then on the question of studying a part. Any school-girl can Zarn the words ol a part, but that is a very different thing to knowing and growing up, as it were, with the character you are called upon to conceive and ereate. To study mcans to Aroze, to know means /o Aeo Tosaw one of her

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books. Tts leaves were mterspersed with almost as many notes as there was type—notes on the char- acter of the woman, period, costumne, surroundings, mfluences. One little note reads @ “Character-— Undemon- strative —- Singing voice — About twenty-five ;- -She ought to be nice- looking, for the King of Irance took her without any dower: cvery servant i the Court loves her

indeed, the Court Fool pines away when she poes to IFrance.” Some half-dozen hooks, all for the same character, are full of notes of this kind. She loves Peatrice and Oplielice the best, and the shortest and smallest part she cever played was only a year or two ago, when she went on at an amateur perform- ance, and the applause which greeted her would scarcely allow her to give her one and only Tine: “ Please, maam, arc you hin or arc you hout?”

“Svingnpe.

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(Tvellth Nizhe.)

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