The remarkable talent of Miss Cecilia Loftus is strikingly illustrated by the fact that she was taken direct from school and placed in the bill at the Oxford Music Hall, London, by Charles Brighten, the then manager, who had heard her privately in her imitations of well-known actresses. Miss Loftus was an immediate success, and three months later she went on the regular stage, playing the part of Haidee in "Don Juan." This was in 1893, when she was seventeen years of age, and in 1896 she married Mr. Justin Huntly Mccarthy - a marriage which was ultimately dissolved. In 1909 Miss Loftus married Dr. A. H. Waterman, of America, and their little son, born two years later, was christened Peter John Barrie Waterman, Mr. J. M. Barrie, the famous author and dramatist, standing as godfather. For some time Miss Loftus forsook the methods of the variety stage for the legitimate drama, and obtained many important engagements, being chosen by the late Sir Kenry Irving, for instance, for the part of Margaret in the 1902 revival of "Faust" at the Lyceum, while she also made a big name for herself in America. Occasionally she returns to the variety stage, but confesses that she much prefers the "legitimate."

Miss Cecilia Loftus Dover Street Studios