JANET WALDORF COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 223, 3 October 1901, Page 2

JANET WALDORF COMPANY.

Miss Waldorf, to whom we pre t > be indebted for a Shikespparcan reviv.il, has had the most lavish praise showered upan her for her wonderfully clevnr impersonation of Juliet. The Telegraph says:—" The unanimous opinion of those present last night was that the lady and her company fully justified their claim to be regarded as qualified exponents of the most exacting and arduous branch of dramatic art. Romeo and Juliet requires treatment of the mo3t delicate and discriminating character. It has many pit-falls to actoss and actresses, while it essentially demands force, fire, and pas-ion. Wheo, therefore, we say that the Waldoif Company presented it in a manner that must have be<m acceptable to the most critical Shakespearian students, we are paying them a high compliment but at the sim« (ime h compliment deserved. The Juli> tof Mits Waldorf was in every respect a finished example of cultured talent; her love passages were chnraeterwed' with infinite sweetness and tenderness ;j her tragic scenes depicted with fierce 1 )' impasnioned intensify, but so peifeewas her art that in iio rime or in no instance was the slightest ex ravaganee detectable. All other members of the company are spoken of in the highest praise. As Miss WalJorf's season at the Theatre Royal is only for two nights she has decided to open with " Romeo and Juliet," and on the second night Dumas' great dr rat, " Oam' le.'