former member of the Daly Company, is now leading lady in Mr. Wilson Barrett's company". Perhaps her reaction to Barrett's unexpected announcement was somewhat amplified by the fact that, as a consequence of becoming his leading lady, she had to master a total of 14 leading roles in the space of just three weeks. She soon settled into her new position, and by 22 October 1891, she was playing Desdemona, to Barrett's Othello, in the first performance of an entirely new production of Shakespeare's Othello, that Barrett had adapted to accommodate Jeffries "unique new school acting style" (Thomas, 1894, p. 111). Jeffries was an outstanding success and, throughout the rest of her career, her performances as Desdemona were considered to be amongst her finest roles. United States (1892-1895) Barrett's 1892/1893 tour opened in Philadelphia, on 21 November 1892, at the Duquesne Theater, with a performance of Hamlet. Jeffries was involved in the creation of Wilson Barrett's play The Sign of the Cross, which was originally produced at the Grand Opera House, St. Louis, Missouri on 28 March 1895. By the end of 1896, Jeffries was well-established as Barrett's leading lady, and had played opposite Barrett in a wide range of works, including: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and Othello Ben-my-Chree and The Bondman (stage versions of Hall Caine's novels The Deemster and The Bondman respectively) Brandon Thomas' The Color Sergeant Henry Arthur Jones and Henry Herman's Chatterton and The Silver King Barrett's The Miser (adapted from a poem, "A Masque", by Silas Weir Mitchell); Barrett's The People's Idol (written in collaboration with Victor Widnell) Barrett's The Acrobat (a version of Charles Dillon's Belphegor) Barrett's Jenny the Barber Henry Arthur Jones's A Clerical Error Barrett's Our Pleasant Sins Barrett's Pharoah Benjamin Thompson's The Stranger (a version of the melodramatic Menschenhass und Reue ("Misanthropy and Repentance") of August von Kotzebue) W. G. Wills' Claudian James Sheridan Knowles' Virginius Barrett's own masterpiece, The Sign of the Cross Australia (1897-1898) One of the unusual features of the company Barrett brought to Australia was that it also contained the brothers of three of his female stars: Norman Jeffries, the brother of Maud Jeffries, Daniel McCarthy, the brother of Lillah McCarthy, and Paul Belmore, the brother of Daisy Belmore (1874–1954). Barrett's company opened its Australian season for J. C. Williamson at Melbourne's Princess Theatre (18 December 1897 – 2 March 1898), and then went on to Sydney's