MISS GREEN AND THE THEATRE.

Evening Star, Issue 2902, 7 June 1872, Page 2

MISS GREEN AND THE THEATRE.

To the Editor . Sib, —Although on the eve of my departure, I cannot let the misrepresentations of Messrs Willis and Geddes, which appeared in your issue of last night, to pass unnoticed. Will you kindly insert the following plain, unvarnished statement of what really took place between Mr Geddes and myself with regard to my proposed engagement at the Princess Theatre:—

After I had written the letter which he has published, Mr Geddes called upon me, and I engaged with him, as he rightly states, for “leading business,” and he told me he should open with a piece entitled “ Life in the South.” I told him' to send up my part as soon as he could, as I thought I knew the piece, and it was a long one—by name Capitola. He said. “ I don’t thick that’s the name.” I replied, “Then it can’t be the piec ; I mean, for in that the leading part is Capitola. ” To my surprise, a few days afterwards I saw the City posted with bills— Capitola (the leading part), Miss Flora Anstead ; and I was cast for a small second part. I wrote a note at once, saying I thought it was clearly understood that I only played the lead ; but I told them 1 bad no wish to stand in the way of a sister professional’s dehut, and as the lady perhaps wished to make her Hrst appearance in that character, to leave me out of the bill altogether, or 1 would play a small first piece, or let my engagement stand over for a week. I never heard from them since. Now I think had those gentlemen wished to act straight-forwardly, they would have said: “we have engaged .\ isa Flora Anstead for leading business, will you also take an engagement and play alternate nights, or one night, she play second to you, and vice versa ?" instead of which the lady was already engaged, and cast the leading part, and I was sent one which, according to their own admission, did not belong to me at all, and which was so bad, it was really an insult to put my name in the bill for it. This is the truth, and I cannot see that my conduct has been too atrocious for them to have let me th 3 theatre for one farewell night. Put let the public judge far themselves—that public who had always been so kind to me, and whom I once more bid a grateful farewell, for I am leaving to day. I am, &c., Dolly Greek (Mrs Drummond).