Jennie Eustace, cast member of the 1912 Elitch-Long Stock Company, expressed her feelings about appearing at Elitch.
When I was asked to come to Elitch Gardens for the summer, I think I was the most delighted player on Broadway.
Now, imagine a player who has worked hard in New York for season after season without any sort of vacation except, possibly a couple of weeks in June or July at the seashore. For an opportunity to get out here to your Colorado and just lounge about a place like Elitch Gardens the player would almost trade all his worldly possessions. Elitch is famous all over the country for its restful beauty.
Among all the players I know, I don’t believe there is one – no matter what his or her prominence – who would not shout for joy at receiving an invitation from Mrs. Long to join the Gardens Stock Company for the summer.
(Borrillo, p. 33)
New York Times Obituary:
A native of Troy, N. Y. , Miss Eustace made her début at the old Madison Square Theatre in 1887 in the cast of the A. M. Palmer Stock Company, with which she spent seven years, acting in such old- time favorites as “Jim the Pen- “Sunlight and Shadow,” man,’ “Alabama,” “Caste” and “Esther Sundrez.”
In 1895-96 she toured with Richard Mansfield, and the following season, at the request of Sir Henry Irving. she supported the English actor in his London production of “Madame Sans-Géne.” Among ‘her later successes were performances of the Queen in the American pro- ductions of “Hamlet” of E. H. Sothern and Forbes-Robertson. In 1907 she created the role of Helen Whip- ple in “The Witching Hour,” remaining throughout the long New York run. She played Mrs. Otherly in John Drinkwater’s “Abraham Lincoln,” and the mother in sup- port of Jane Cowl in ‘ ‘The Depths,”
New York Times Obituary
