"Mr. and Mrs. Kendal at the St.
james Theatre" were the standing delight of Victorian playgoers and, evidence of that reputation, it may be Fecorded that the Command Perform. ance at Osborne in the Queen's Jubilee Year was one in which Mr. and Mrs. Kendal presented "Uncle's Will", a seventeen-year old comedietta by Theyre Smith, and W. 8. Gilbert's There were still twenty years of uninterrupted success in. an amazing variety of plays and parts. They were marked, it is true, by financial vielssitudes but the public favour never weakened, Loyalty to Mr. and Mrs. Kendal was ensured by the admirable assiduity with which the gifted pair attended to their art. "They never resumed on their reputations, "Con scientious thoroughness adorned all
made her last regular appearance on their work and when Mrs. "Kendal the stage in "The House of Clay", at An' ''e sweats like a Jolly—Ec 'Majesty's Jolly—soidier an' sailor too"
For there isn't a job on. the top the earth the beggar don }now, You can Teave im at night on a bald man's ead, to paddle is own cange—a sort of a Bloomin' cosmopoouse—soldier ant louse—soldier an' sailor too.
So the King's palaces and Mr. Montagu Norman have this summer been under the care of gentlemen no mean history behind them. the Coronet Theatre in October 1908, she and her husband could look back fon careers full of hard work but also crowned with distinction and popular affection.
Her actual last appearance was at His Majesty's Theatre in the Corona tion year of King George V when she played Mistress Ford in the scene from "The Merry Wives of Windsor", with Ellen Terry and Lady Tree—the revival of a memorable performance in the Coronation year of King Edward VIL. "The trio Were painted in that scene by Orpen and the picture was /hung in' the Academy,
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