Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-03-16

BELLE BalTTAS on Miss HERox.-"Belle Brit
tan, the brilliant correspondent of the New
York Mirror, says:
After seeing Miss Heron's intensely natural
personation OF the hot-houSe passion Of .sCamil
lc, " no one could deny that the secret of her
success consists in her rare genuius for loving
Every look, tone and gesture is painfully ex-
preSslve of the eternal yearning, longing, gasp
ing the unSatisiied human heart for the indeti-
nable abstraction, the evanescent glory the ideal
and elusive heaven Of Love. AS nn abandoned
deyotee of that sad faith
''Whose martyrs the broken heart"
Camille" dies the saddest of victims The
character has but one sentiment, one passion,
which is developed into aconSuming fire. Miss
Heron's representation of it is painfully vivid
and truthful; and, at the same time, SO natural-
ly feminine, andso intensely yin accordance with
the incipient consciousness of all who have ever
dreamed oflovc, that the seemingly extraya.
CANT Language is responded to as readily as we
admit logical necessity Camille loves infini-
tely; aud the cry of her heart is answered. She
is ready Ito gives whole eternity ofsliie for n
single hour OF this new.found rapture.'' But
the love that brings joy SO exquisite is ever
1.-THE love that fate forbidS." The story is old.
often repeated, and is presented by Matilda
Heron with all the fidelity of a realty. It is
simply "history teaching by example,"
The play of "Mcdea" is quito another thing
Instead of the exhibition of single passion, w,
have here all the terrific energies that ever rous.
ed or rent the heart of woman. The character
of Medea partakeS more of the aVenger than Of
the lover; originally a supernatural one-a sort
of compound of tue sOrcereSS and the fury of
the Greek mythology. The picture is literally
grand, gloomy aud PECULIAR The central
figure Is dark with anger and crimson with
crime; and may be regarded us the fruitful mo.
ther OF all the NorinaS and BOrgiuS of the drt-
ma that have stained the stage with blood and
filled the theatcr with tears, from the DAYS of
Eurpides to the present
There is scope and motive enough in all this
for the widest tumult and lnaddeSt exercise OF
the passions; and powerful, indeed, is the ller-
trayal by Miss Heron, who hates with as much
intensity as she loves. In the recital of her first
interview with JASON when their eyes met,
when her heart was won, and her whole being
seemed poisoned with ioy;n in the description
! of her leaye.tRking of her sleeping mother; Of
her wanderings to lind her absent lord; in thu
| exhibition of her jealous rage; in. her repudia.
| ton OF her children, because they reSembied
their false father; and.in her pleadings for them
to come back to the "bOSon that nouriSheCl them
Ito the heart that gave them life'-Niss Her.
ons acting aud ntteranGe surPaSSeS anything
we have ever seen on the mimic stage HeI
tones touch the fountain of tears, aud stony
eyes can not refuse to weep, though it be s.sil
/ for Hecuba. 1t is a great piece of actIng-s
! great work OF art-a great exhibition of genius
Tits not ianltless perfornanc nothing human
Is SO; but am not in the mood to complain O
spots on the SUM- to-day, mort discuss the
comparatiVe merits of Miss Heronls acting il
the totally opposite roles of Camille and
sMedea. Ia either, or in both, she is the trans
cendent genius of the stage.
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