The Janet Waldorf Season.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 327, 30 January 1902, Page 4

The Janet Waldorf Season.

In Miss Janet Waldorf, who is to make her first appearance at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening, we have the youngest and perhaps most charming of America’s representative actresses who has over visited the colonies, and the performances to be givon during tho season will bo identical with those given in the larger cities in each particular, as far as oho stage accommodation will permit. Tho opportunity of seeing such noteworthy productions at the hands of Miss Janet Waldorf, Mr Norval Macgoegor, and the excellent supporting company, numbering twenty performers, is not one that occurs every day, and one that no intelligent playgoer can afford to throw away. The company includes tho following names : Miss Marie D’Alton, Miss Florence Bartlett, Miss Alice St. John, Miss Fanny Kendrick, Miss Ada Ctirrior, Messrs Lawrence Hawray, Vivian Edwards, Fred E. Patey, Thomas D. Lloyd, Taul Scardon, Willi tin Fitoliott, Gustave Neville, Harry Douglas, Joseph Devon, George Bentley, L. E. Oathgart, Percy Ross, and Clarence Lewrey, all metropolitan artists of high standing.

Of the “ star ” the Bombay Gazette says:—" When Miss Waldorf is on the stage one forgets that she is acting ; and the reason lies simply in the fact that this thorough and finished artiste does so herself, and in her forgetfulness of her individuality she carries her audience nolens volens right into the heart of the character she is enacting. Her Juliet was another grand example of her puwor to thrill, enchant, and instruct. Aided by a strikingly fine stage presence, easy deportment, groat iloxibility of voice, and an evidently keen, natural sensibility, Miss AValdorf harmonises her whole being, heart, body, and soul, with the character she pourtrays, and with such effect that her audience is carried away with sympathy and admiration. Itepeated outbursts of applause wore the public recognition of a testimony to the fact that they behold no mere average artiste. As a Shakesperian actress Miss Waldorf possesses gifts of which she has every reason to be justly proud. As an all-round histrionic artiste she occupies an enviable position in her profession, and being still young has undoubtedly a glorious luture before her.” The season will commence on Saturday with a grand production of “ Ingoinar,” a play in which both Miss Waldorf and Mr Macgregor have achieved fame throughout the United States and the East. The box plan is now open at Miller's, where day sales may also be obtained.