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actress; she possesses great energy, but is deficient
in feminine grace and needs more color in her acting,
especially of the softer tone. This has reference
principally to her Meg Merrilies, which is a fearful
creation. Miss Cushman has represented in her merely
the witch, merely the horrible in nature. But even
the most horrible nature has moments and traits of
beauty; it has sun, repose, dew, and the song of
birds. Her Meg Merrilies is a wild rock in the sea,
around which tempests are incessantly roaring, and
which unceasingly contends with clouds and waves. She
was also too hard and masculine for Lady Macbeth. It
was mostly in the night scene that her acting struck
me as beautiful, and that deploring cry so full
of anguish which she utters when she cannot wash
the blood from her hands, that I feel I shall never
forget. It thrilled my whole being, and I can still
hear it; I can hear it in gloomy moments and scenes.
I like Miss Cushman personally very much. One sees
obviously in her an honest, earnest, and powerful
soul, who regards life and her vocation with a noble
seriousness. She has, through great difficulties,
made her own way to the position which, by universal
recognition and esteem, she now occupies. She belongs
to an old Puritanic family, and after her father’s
misfortune she
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