Marion Daily Star
Ohio, USA
11 June 1887
What Was Said by Actors of Note at a Recent
Benefit
Much of their talk was commonplace, of course, but at length somebody
spoke of an account, published that morning, of Richard
Mansfield's attempt to represent the dual character of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde. The former is a good and rotund man in the
story, you will remember, with a benevolent sort of face, while the latter
is a wizened scoundrel, with an ugly, evil visage.
It was said that Mansfield had undertaken to show the contrasted faces by
means of contortion alternated with calm placidity.
In the slang of the age, he "mugged it."
