[1] A critic in 1880 wrote "As an actor Mr Anson is possessed of force and pathos, and is an excellent low comedian.

The play was a success: The Sydney Mail stated it "sorely taxed the seating accommodations" and "every available corner was occupied".

The Sydney Morning Herald said "Mr Anson had a tremendous reception, and the applause lasted so long that the actor had every excuse for feeling embarrassed".

[7] In 1897 in Broadway, he was in the comic opera La Poupée which was produced by Oscar Hammerstein I at the Olympia Theatre.

They included Shakespeare's Hamlet, The Merry Wives of Windsor (as Falstaff), The Merchant of Venice (as Old Gobbo) and Julius Caesar (as Ligarius); also The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and a dramatisation by J. Comyns Carr of Charles Dickens's novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (as Durdles).

[4] It came during 1911 to Toronto, where a reviewer wrote, "The veteran English character actor George W. Anson [was] playing the role of a crusty old brewer.