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Minnie Maddern

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Day
1
Month
March
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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The coming of that nniqne, clever, cbarming, and brilliant aciress. Mirmie Maddern, to Ann Arbor, wil! rfjoioe the hearts of even many who do not usually attend the theater. Hinnie Maddern adorns and enoobles the stage. She bringg upon the stsga newer ideas and quieter ways of producing comic and pathetic effects than any othor actress of the times. Sbe will play "Caprice" in Ann Arbor next Monday evening. Aa a star this year she bas been a wonderíul succass. The cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis have been at her feet, wild with delight at her performances. The New York Mirror, the greatest dramatic journal in this country, says of this actress : "Minnie Maddern is unique among all contemporary aotreeseg. There is no riyal in the realm where she is queen and sways above our willing heads a gentle 8ceptre. It is a Hule kingdom that she rulee, but the allegiance of her subjects is as strong and stable as her supremacy. "The spring that bubbles from the earth is not purer, mere translucent or neous than Minnie Msdder's art. Both have their birth in nature and both are delightful and refreshing. The smile, the frown, the tear of this dainty hule woman are irresistible. We can echo her merry laughter, and we weep with her when it pleases her to make us. She has not the genius that datszles nor the power that thrills ; but she takes our heart ia her little hands and makeg them beat responsive to her touch. She commands our entire ympathies, and we are content to give them to her without question. _ "It is not by studied effort, by superficial trick or theatric device that these results can be achieved. Miss Maddern, it is true, has learned about all that is to be learned from experience ; but the secret of her sucees9 ia playing upon our feelings lies deeper. It is akin with the the secret oí the pellucid spring ; it m the gift of Nature, whose wondrou hand pours genius into one eradle and withholds it from the next; whose gifts are bestowed on a curious plan, the workings of which we perceive but the mystery of whose origiu we cannot fathom."

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Ann Arbor Register