The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 62, July 1958 - April, 1959 Page: 445
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The Renaissance of the Galveston Theatre
trayal of Mrs. Sternhold was called a perfect study. The breakfast
scene, too, was especially praised.
All that Glitters is Not Gold, or The Factory Girl, a common
repertory number of the time, was presented quite smoothly on
November 23. T. J. Herndon's whimsicalities as Toby Twinkle
caused riotous laughter. (Herndon and Mrs. Emma Forrest and
her daughter, Laura, were now with the company.) Two per-
formances of Fanchon the Crickets followed (November 25-26).
The play was Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer's dramatization of the
rustic idyll, La Petite Fadette, by George Sand. Dolly Ingersoll
performed the part of Old Fadette so well that she attracted much
of the interest the audience would normally show for the per-
secuted Cricket. Miss Miles, as the Cricket, had a more appealing
laugh, a critic in Flake's Bulletin thought, than the famous Maggie
Mitchell, who had created the part, but did not throw the wild
fun into the shadow dance that Maggie did.4
After a week the Bulletin declared that the management had
reason to congratulate itself on the excellence of the corps dra-
matique. The actors were still hampered, too, by the lack of
their wardrobes (which presumably were yet in Havana);
citizens had lent generously-men as well as women-but without
costumes, certain plays of the repertory could not be put on the
stage. Augustus Kotzebue's German play of misanthropy and re-
pentance, The Stranger, was given on December 2, and Still
Waters Run Deep repeated. On December 4, Camille was the
play. Miss Ingersoll gave what was called a Matilde Heron-like
Camille, with more of the woman and less of the "roughness"
with which the highly emotional Matilde usually invested the
character.5 In another performance of the masterpiece of the
younger Dumas (December 5) Miss Miles was praised for her
8August Waldauer, a musician of St. Louis, translated this play from the German
of Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer's drama, and Maggie Mitchell was seen as Fanchon in
the first production of the English version of the piece at the St. Charles Theatre
in New Orleans in 186o.-H. P. Phelps, Players of a Century (Albany, 1880), 401.
4"The shadow dance, with its absurd song, and the scene of the beguiling of
Father Barbeaud were among the most captivating things ever presented in the
theatre."-George C. D. Odell, Annals of the New York Stage (15 vols.; New York,
1927-1949), VII, 388.
1Miss Heron was a "brilliant and accomplished" actress of the mid-nineteenth
century. She is credited with having made $1oo,ooo in her role as Camille.-
Phelps, Players of a Century, 301-302.445
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