Gertrude Kingston

“Portrait of Kingston (1905) by John Singer Sargent”

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“... People still talk of Gertrude Kingston's {{w|The Trojan Women|Helen}} as a piece of acting to treasure in the memory; and readers of {{w|The Trojan Women|the play}} who considered it contained a too great monotony of sorrow to be effective on the stage, found themselves, to their astonishment, almost unendurably moved.”

“... for sheer beauty, the {{w|Quantocks}}, to my mind, between {{w|Bridgwater}} and {{w|Williton}}, are infinitely more exquisite, with alternating well-watered {{w|combe}}s and {{w|moorland}} and {{w|Exmoor}} in the distance, than any part of {{w|Devonshire}}.”

“There are two sides to every question. There are two sides to every {{w|Theater drapes and stage curtains|stage curtain}}—what is termed the ' back ' and the ' front of the house,' or more generally known as ' before and behind the footlights '—and if of late years both sides of the curtain have been made familiar to the public gaze, it is not because it is the fashion to court observation, but on account of a passionate national curiosity to know the truth.”