San Francisco dramatic review (1899)

February 17, 1900 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW Above are good /ikefiesses of the principal members of the Plymouth Stock Co., who recently gave two very successful performances of Unmasked. the Napa State Hospital and lecturer at Cooper's College, making appropriate and eloquent addresses upon the many advantages of mental, physical and social development resulting from such instruction as the school affords for students in professional and private life, Mrs. Anderson being thoroughly conversant with the highest art of elocution and physical training. Each speaker was generously applauded, Mrs. Anderson responding in a few words of appreciation and expressing her determination to deserve their opinion of her merit ; then upon request she gave part of the first act of Cyrano de Bergerac, her handling of the various characters being strong and effective, her action easy and her voice beautifully modulated, not a word being lost even in the excitement of the fencing scene in which she displayed much grace, winning sincere applause. She is interesting and magnetic, inspires confidence and will doubtless make a brilliant success of the Calhoun School of Natural Elocution, Acting and Physical Training. Having a warm interest in the teachers in all branches of professional work, I dropped in to see Mrs. Anderson when passing Golden Gate Hall a day or two later and found her busy with a pupil whom she was instructing in exercises of esthetic physical training. Ever}' muscle was brought into play, and watching the lithe form of the pupil in the exercises of breathing and walking, the development of health and lines of beauty, I realized the benefit many of our over-worked prolessionals would have gained, and the increased power of endurance had they enjoyed this kind of education instead of entering professional work, as singers, actors and public speakers too often do without the proper building up of body as well as mind. Especially interesting were the exercises preparing the voice for speaking or singing, and in taking the full round tone the entire physical organization was invigorated. ' ' How many mothers could save perhaps the lives of their little ones preventing blighting disease if they understood the simple laws of health and especially the breathing exercises," said Mrs. Anderson, citing instances of the ad vantage her knowledge had been in her experience as a mother. " And what help these exercises would be to the society woman," I added, "for there can be no beauty without health and perfect development of the form divine." Then as I admired her light, easy motion and the sweet, low tones of her voice, Mrs. Anderson said with a smile, " Americans have learned to value correct speaking and voice training as much as our English cousins, for in London, as you know, badly pitched voices or ungrammatical language are not tolerated in polite society, and so it is in New York today." As I was ready to leave, a pupil preparing for the stage came in whom I heard read from Macbeth, and was again impressed with Mrs. Anderson's conscientiousness as a teacher, her care of the voice, gesture, facial expression and the interpretation of the role and her effort to preserve the naturalness of the pupil being her great aim. "We are Nature's children," she remarked, "we must observe the rules of stage technic, but the only real art is gained from making human nature our model in the interpretation of character." Mrs. Jessie Calhoun Anderson has taught at the Stanford University by special arrangement, the University of the Pacific and other schools. She has had the advantage of training from leading masters of Paris and London, her education being under the direction of her sister, Eleanor Calhoun, a light upon the dramatic stage. Mary Frances Francis. Mary Scott Mary Scott, who goes out next week as leading woman of the Frawley & Stockwell Co., presenting, In Paradise, is one of our younger actresses with a most promising career before her. Besides possessing great beauty, she has an intelligence and real adaptability for stage work, and will before long be numbered with that great list of California women who have gone away from home and won admiration for their beauty and splendid appreciation of their talents. Miss Scott's most notable success is associated with the difficult role of Fay Zuliana, in Pinero's comedy, The Princess and the Butterfly, presented a few weeks ago by the Frawley Company. The concensus of critical opinion was that the role of Fay was excellently handled and, to quote the words of the eminent theatrical reviewer of the Chronicle, Peter Robertson, "she had an attractive character in the piece and she played it with ease, vivacity and control. * * Fay Zuliana suited her and it is not an easy role. It should not be difficult for Miss Scott to win a prominent place on the stage, for she has the temperament and instinct for the work." 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