Jessie bond autobiography of malcolm

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Detroit Red; from Chapter Saved; from Chapter Nineteen. He had just returned from America, and the two compared travel experiences. Ransome admitted to Bond that, after watching The Mikado , he had mentioned to his sister that he "liked the little one with the big sash best. So next day when she saw a photograph of you in a shop window she went in and bought it.

She gave it to me and I have it now. Ransome, several years younger than Bond, proposed marriage on many occasions over the course of the relationship, but Bond told him that she would not marry while she continued on the stage. Over the years, the two spent many of Bond's days off Sundays relaxing together in the country. Bond next created the role of Mad Margaret in Ruddigore ; originally spelt "Ruddygore" , which she regarded as her favourite of all the Gilbert and Sullivan roles, "for it gave me the chance to show what I really could do as an actress.

Bond recalled: "It was an awful ordeal. I saw the three white faces looming out of the darkness as they sat close together; criticizing me, talking me over, with cold managerial detachment. It nearly killed me. Perhaps it gave an added realism and abandon to my simulated madness, for indeed I was nearly mad with fear — but at any rate I came through triumphantly, they were all three of them delighted.

Without it I should have fallen as I stood in the wings waiting to go on.

Jessie bond autobiography of malcolm

Then some one gave me a push; I was there, on the stage, in the glare of the footlights, hundreds of eyes fixed on me, tier upon tier of dim white faces rising from floor to ceiling in the gloom. It was enough; I forgot myself, I was Mad Margaret and no one else. I made an immense success. There were two particularly noteworthy features in the performance of Ruddigore.

So true to real life was the portrayal of Mad Margaret that Mr. Forbes Winslow, the famous authority on mental disorders, wrote a congratulatory letter to Miss Bond and inquired where she had found the model from which she had studied, and so faithfully copied the phases of insanity. No greater compliment could have been paid the actress. Bond next appeared in the first revivals of H.

Pinafore —88 , Pirates , and The Mikado recreating her earlier roles. She had developed an enthusiastic following among the audiences at the Savoy Theatre. Gilbert wrote her a letter that concludes:. I am writing such a particularly good part for you in the new piece that I should be distressed beyond measure if you should leave us. I've never said as much as this to any actor or actress before.

I don't say it to induce you to play so insignificant a part as Edith, for if you left us now, and came back to us to play that part, I should be satisfied. But if you didn't play it, my calculations would be all upset, and I should lose a dear little lady for whom I have always had a very special regard. Bond wrote, "My share in the most beautiful of all the Gilbert and Sullivan operas was delightfully easy and natural.

When Gilbert gave it to me at the first reading he said, 'Here you are, Jessie, you needn't act this, it's you. Bond wrote, "I am afraid he made himself a perfect nuisance behind the scenes, and did his best, poor fellow, to upset us all. These first nights were very hard on me At last I turned on him savagely. Gilbert, go away and leave me alone, or I shan't be able to sing a note!

By the time The Gondoliers was in preparation, Gilbert felt that his regular principal cast members were becoming too demanding and that the precision and style of D'Oyly Carte productions could be maintained only if there were no "stars". He endeavoured to make the nine leading roles as co-equal as he could. Bond, aware of her importance to the company, declined to appear unless her salary was raised from twenty pounds to thirty pounds a week.

Gilbert bitterly resisted the raise, but Bond prevailed: "I was the only one who asked for a rise, and Gilbert was furious with me. All the time we were rehearsing [ The Gondoliers ] he never spoke to me, and only acknowledged my existence by sometimes saying sneeringly: 'Make way for the High-Salaried Artiste! Passing storms like this did occasionally ruffle the course of our friendship, but on the whole it flowed on deep and strong".

Bond wrote,. But [this and Barrington's solo] numbers seemed to amuse the real Queen more than anything else in the opera, and, indeed, who could so well as she see the point of them? The very fact of her choosing this opera from all the others to be played before her shows how vivid was her sense of fun, and how truly British was her willingness to laugh at herself.

There was Who but I who write this, little Jessie Bond Although her salary continued to rise, she was less happy at the Savoy after Gilbert's departure. She took a three-month leave from the D'Oyly Carte organisation in August , together with Rutland Barrington, performing a series of "musical duologues" and sketches, written mostly by Barrington and composed by Edward Solomon , on a provincial tour, where they received good notices and profits.

Bond was unwilling to accept the part offered to her in the next Savoy piece, Haddon Hall Osmond Carr 's His Excellency — When the revivals were over, Bond left the stage. After he had first seen her perform in The Mikado in , Bond's friendship with Lewis Ransome continued and deepened. Subject to an increasing number of short illnesses that prevented her from performing, and tiring of life in the theatre, Bond finally agreed to marry Ransome, and the couple wed in May When I told Gilbert he was so angry that I don't think he ever quite forgave me; he would not accept my health as an excuse, he was unreasonable, as, alas, he often was!

Will you provide for me? Will Sir Arthur? Will Carte? No, of course you won't. Well, I am going to marry a man who will. Bond wrote of her feelings at the end of her last performance: "Twenty years of hard work, twenty years of fun and frolic and jolly companionship, twenty years of living in an atmosphere of tuneful nonsense, with the glare of the footlights in my eyes and the thunders of applause in my ears.

How terribly I should miss it all!