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Terry (ELLEN ALICE an English actress)

ELLEN ALICE, an English actress; born in Coventry, England, Feb. 27, 1848, and made her first appearance on the stage during Charles Kean's Shakespearian revivals in 1858, playing the parts of Mamillius in "The Winter's Tale" and Prince Arthur in "King John."

When only 14 she was a member of Mr.

Chute's Bristol Company. She reappeared in London, March, 1863, as Gertrude in "The Little Treasure," and till January, 1864, played Hero in "Much Ado About Nothing," Mary Meredith in "Our American Cousin," and other secondary parts. In that year she married Watts, the painter, and left the stage, but reappeared again in October, 1867, in "The Double Marriage" at the New Queen's Theater, London. She afterward joined Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft at the Prince of Wales' Theater, where she acted the part of Portia. On Dec. 30, 1878, she made her first appearance at the Lyceum, and, in conjunction with Mr. Irving, played in the longest runs ever known of "Hamlet," "The Merchant of Venice," "Romeo and Juliet," and "Much Ado About Nothing." She also appeared as Viola in "Twelfth Night," Henrietta Maria in "Charles I.," Camma in Tennyson's tragedy of "The Cup," Ruth Meadows in "Eugene Aram," as Marguerite in W. G. Wills' "Faust" (revived in 1849), as Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth," as Lucy Ashton in "Ravenswood," as Queen Catherine in "Henry VIII.," as Cordelia in "King Lear," as Rosamonde in "Becket" (1893), as Imogen in "Cymbeline" (1896); as Madame Sans-Gêne (1897); and in "Peter the Great" (1898). She accompanied Mr.

Irving on his numerous American tours, playing with unprecedented success all TERRY over the United States. Her jubilee was celebrated at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, in 1906. She published "The Story of My Life" (1908), and "The Russian Ballet" (1913).