John Drew's Impression of Maude Adams

“My early impression of Maude Adams, before it was finally decided that she was to be my leading woman...was that she looked too frail. I had been accustomed to play with Ada Rehan who was so much bigger and stronger.” (Maude Adams, an American Idol: True Womanhood Triumphant in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Theatre, doctoral thesis, 1984, Eileen Karen Kuehnl)

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