New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-23

BROADWAY TKEATER.
NR. BARRY SULLIVAN.

Actor, ylp claim for themselves, a high deg see 0.
excellence n tier CIT, whether he claim b. based on
tue merit or set mp On mere charatani.m, have been
accustomed Of lae years to mart certain amount
Of puGeIy, as tfe newspapers gay, invariably in
adyance"-to demand ;hat every of the town
shall b. covered with gigantic handful, Announcing to
az astori.hod community .he iIn'reoeie advent q
John Jones' tho greatest comedian &c the age; or,
that every deal well shall rear to irene riocs high,
only oanabc by the hort lasder and the long brush
Of BIZ St;cker esq, in all the bazoH-y Of four4oo.
crimson and green k.ters, the remende-is fact that
" Timothy Tomph.ns il comi,y," also that Timothy
efore said the greatest Of he eye and the
"ony hope Of The living drama. Tie pubic have at
lai come 20 re gard with go much d-Iust Thu sort Il
hun.bug, that probably the most judicous thing Mr.
Barry Sullivan could have done, precisely What
lie lid do-come among ~ urhe,aded, almost unan-
nounotd ypg .olcly ard simply Ii deseryngs a.
an artist TO challenge the attention OF the people. Many
an actor oi ordinary merit ~ho might have endured
modcst commend alton to tie good gtaces Of the pab
lie and have come through tie trial Of r-t appesr
anco with ayng color has been utterly wrecked and
ruined 10y a remendor- gale Of prepuftry invoked by
inindc;ous managers and enthusiastic friends We
know not whether TO discTeetness 10 accident We
-lou'd attribute the omission OF predatory hula
balco in The ease Of Mr. Barry S-ivan bat Il Ia dis
creot1ess Il Was most unusual Il 20 accident, has
'been moas happy. IL graceful AID scholarly
ad.rg viii produce doub,y powerful impre--
sion on his audiences fom the fact that there
has been no attempt 70 string up their ex-
pectations TO too high pitch fv any snti!ips
eaIizslop The luackerv OF big-leer advertising Is
rot 20 potent formerly to impose an the American
public medioc,ity genius but tina, they recognise
-. Ill. l,-
the simple, earnest demand to b. weighed in the
balarce is abundarty proved by the aprreciai'e ap'
rlausc that greeted the effort. OF N'r. Sullivan last
ninht. who was weighed and not found wanting in a
single particular
He appeared la, .h for the first time in his coun'
ty; tie play being "iIaulet, 81 Which char
ac,r lie gave rendering elaborate and scholarly. but
AT tie same tine spirited aLd in Sany rcpects highly
original Mr. sullivan does rot oyeract; ne ina, the
ant TO give e,nestre,s ard vgor 20 Lis perscnaton
viii out rar.. That he las made the character he
enacted last evening" tie sylject Of much and critic al
study il apparent irou the great number of new reai-
,-s with which lie surpriss. his audience SOME of
tlc.e rsrderrc. az -tsn'hg, but more are merely
whimsical lie IS AT adni able elocutioni>t although
he suffered bis first appearance from hoarsenesss,
which sadly impaired the sweetness Of his &C. which
is yeiy sympathetic az wlll a powerful. Iu all the
business Of The ccre lie IS Intelligent though ne IRE
auenty differs widely from the stereotyped traditions
lie s blessed with graceful forn 6ue face, and an
ESQ frat lie controls to every expression w all his
acting he s most careful ard discriminating and lie
initiates nobody; h's Hamlet Is ls own Hamlet, aud
Sake-pesres. Ills rcadin, OF the celebrated sclio-
qly in Il third act, is model of c,aboratcy clitica!
c'ocui;on aud lila rendering cl ti.e cloct scene with
the Queen il lie most impressive aad beautiful We
have ever witnessed.
NJ. Sullivan has afew, a very few, manrersm-, too
Slight to mar, TO any considerable deer the beauty
Of his performance whole, aud tor significant
TO srccfy here where desire to express al honest
praise Of the truly artistic performance, aud our re-
iocipg at he unequyoca success OF the finest actor
| that Eas!aai las sert u far many year.
Tie lelo CT tie night vas eXce.en:ly supported by
| Madame Pon.ei, who played the Queen most afmira
bly. and also by the others Of the Company
The audience. which was very large one, insisted
on ealing ont Mr. Sullivan each tims tbs curtain went
down. greeting him On each r>sppesrance with erthl
sias,ic cheere. lie returned his thanks in few words
at the cni Of the play Tonight he sppeor' a. Cisuas
Melnolie.'