CAMPBELL (Mrs Patrick, born Beatrice Stella Tanner, 1865-1940, Actress)

Autograph Letter signed "Beatrice Stella Campbell" to Mr Schuster (Leo, d.1924, well-known musical society host, friend of Elgar) saying that she "would be delighted to come to you the following Sunday but it would be impossible to come on the 5th as that is the day we leave Liverpool to return to town & by the next Sunday we would have got into some shape with the play & would have heaps to discuss. I am so excited about it & I do hope your lovers of the beautiful will be pleased ... we have done a wonderful week in Edinburgh & there have been so good about my Lady Macbeth ...", 3 sides 8vo., The Plough & Harrow Hotel, Edgbaston, 15th July

She became successful after starring in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, in 1893, at St. James's Theatre where she also appeared in 1894 in The Masqueraders. As Kate Cloud in John-a-Dreams, produced by Beerbohm Tree at the Haymarket in 1894, she had another success, and again as Agnes in The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith at the Garrick (1895). Among her other performances were those in Fédora (1895), Little Eyolf (1896), and her notable performances with Forbes-Robertson at the Lyceum in London's West End in the rôles of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Ophelia in Hamlet, and Lady Macbeth (1895–98) in Macbeth. Once established as a major star, Campbell assisted in the early careers of some noted actors, such as Gerald Du Maurier and George Arliss.

Item Date:  1898

Stock No:  39551      £75

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