Elizabeth, Queen of England

“The inauguration of the fall season at the Broadway theatre has been characterized by well merited success, and it is to be sincerely hoped that the public approbation which has marked the engagement of Mrs. J. W. Lander will ever attend the able and discriminating management therein displayed. The past has shown that so long as managers provide capable artists so long with intellectual compositions and histrionic talent be largely and liberally patronized. The Broadway theatre, ever anxious to please, has, during the past week, been literally crammed, not by the idle and silly gazers of clownish exhibitions, but by the admirers of the genuine and praise-worthy sort. As Elizabeth, Mrs. Lander is in some portions of the play unsurpassable. In the last scene, for instance, her portraiture of the withered, dying, yet unconquerable queen, is beyond question one of the grandest and most finished pieces of acting ever witnessed upon the American stage and needs to be seen to be admired and remembered. The play, which is exceedingly well put upon the stage, will be continued this week.”

Compares Lander’s perception of the role of Elizabeth to Ristori’s and discusses other actors in the cast; no mention of music.