Selma Lenhart

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Selma Lenhart
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Interpreter of Modern Plays

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Selma Lenhart
All the art of a metropolitan stock company is effectively concentrated in Selma Lenhart, interpreter of plays.  As she presents any one of a great variety of stories, Miss Lenhart slips into the personality of each character, assuming the expression, the walk, the voice and the mannerisms with startling fidelity.

The characters are like real people to me, asserts Miss Lenhart.  I can see them all around me on the stage.  Sometimes I feel like an animal trainer, ordering my subjects on and off the platform.  I must stand always in the background and keep an eagle eye on the temperamental gang.  It is great sport.

Unquestionably, one of Miss Lenhart's greatest accomplishments is the keen distinction which she makes between her characters.  Without apparent effort she differentiates the parts so clearly that it is easy to imagine that an entire cast is producing the play.

In recent years Miss Lenhart has become a favorite with lyceum audiences from New England to the Golden Gate.  A thirty-weeks' tour last season included engagements in nearly 200 cities in 32 states.



Miss Lenhart's Repertoire
ERSTWHILE SUSAN.—In Marian DeForest's story of the Pennsylvania Dutch, Miss Lenhart has wonderful opportunity to reveal her talent as a dialect artist.  She relates in three acts the efforts of Juliet (Erstwhile Susan), to bring sunshine into the life of her unhappy little step-daughter, Barnabetta.  Seven characters are introduced in the course of a delightful narrative that mingles humor and pathos.

LEAH KLESCHNA.—Taking the four-act play in which Mrs. Fiske starred, Miss Lenhart introduces vividly a coterie of seven characters.  The central theme involves an Austrian girl who is raised a thief, but who heeds the still small voice and is dramatically reclaimed.  The principal scenes are laid in Paris and give the interpreter a wide range for her impersonative powers.

ALL-OF-A-SUDDEN PEGGY.—The sudden emotions and actions of the Irish heroine, Peggy O'Mara, are the foundation for this three-act play by Ernest Denny.  Peggy cannot understand why she should be ruled by anything but her own, honest, wholesome impulses.  The consequences of her suddenness keep the play moving rapidly.

Miss Lenhart is available also for a highly interesting program of miscellaneous numbers.





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