Lady Monckton as an Actress
There is still another fashionable lady on tflie stage— Lady Monckton, the wife of the Town Clerk of London, For many years she played with com* paniesof amateurs, and was associated with a club of which Sir Charles Ifoune was the moving spirit. Sir Charles had written many plays, but ■could not get them acted. He therefore produced them himself, for the benefit of charities. In most of them Lady Monckton took a leading part. Last year, having gawked "Jim the Penman" all over the place with his usual ill-luck, he at kst induced the managers of the Haymarket to let him try it at a .matinee at their theatre, which was just then in rather a bad way. The piece was produced with Lady Monckton in the principal role. It pleased the critics, and the manager proposed to Sir Charles that they should put it into their nightly bill. Sir Charles agreed to the proposal, with the condition that if Lady Moncktoa. chose to join the profession and eschew the amateur stage she should have an offer to continue the part of Jim the Penman's wife. Lady Monckton accepted the position, and is now at the height of a long run, during which she has displayed considerable ability.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 66, 4 December 1886, Page 3
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