A Woman of the People
This is another play that I was able to find the year she performed in the play (1879), but not much other than information on the play itself.
=====American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1869-1914 by Gerald Bordman; Oxford University Press, 1994=====
Two other attractions opened the same night to far more critical attention. Both offered leading actresses in older, foreign plays. Rose Eytinge was the star of A Woman of the People ( 9-23-78, Broadway), a new redaction of d' Ennery and Cormon's MarieJeanne , which had been seen years before in several other versions under several other titles. Its central figure, Marie, is forced to give up her child because her worthless husband will not support his family, and when she later tries to reclaim it she is declared insane.
=====The Bishop of Broadway: the Life & Work of David Belasco by Craig Timberlake; Library Publishers, 1954=====
Belasco's subsequent treatment of Wills' play, A Woman of The People, did not fare so well, the critic of The Argonaut finding it "five acts of straight agony."
 Morning Oregonian, Feb. 19, 1879 |
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