Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-11-08


At the Chestnut Street Theater, Philadel-
phia, in Byron's Werner "a character
which Mcready played to perfection, leaving
| nothing TO be desired-Werner, speaking of
the favor shown to Uric, by his enemy
Stralenheim, says.
q It's but snare he winds about both,
To swoop the sire and son At once"
to which Uric, with the impetuous confidence
Of youth, replies,
fAH "Ieannot Fl
Pause in each petty fear and stumble at
The doubts that rise like briers in our path,
but must break through them, os an undrmed earle
Would, though sith naked limbs, the tuoH
IN tAe tAieka sOhere he pesoed for breadth -
Surely the its licicised lines in brackets,
| apt. nervous, presenting a happy figure,
| iorcibly illustrating the onward determine
| ton of youth. deserved TO be spoken. Mr.
Macready thought Otherwise.
I'ye cut those lines out" he said at re-
| hearsel.
Butt" replied, "as they occur in my
| part have restored them" -
"No, no." he said, ''omit them"
l"Wby? ?" inquired.
81 feel they're useless; they burthen the
textr'
Pardon" said, as it is who have to
speak them, il disagree with you. | think
them particularly apt and characteristic
Besides" be continued, q they lengthen
the scene, and wish them out"
Lewis" / said to the prompter, will
you be good enough to time my speaking of
those three lines Id. ---s - 49,
o." said be. hastily, " that's too much!
Speak them, speak them, if you will; blu.
| they're quite superiluous.' t
or course did speak them. These are
tribes, but they show the man and his mind;
had these lines occurred in any part of his,
q a
in his very rehearsal of " Werner" after Ga
boris relation OF the murder by Uric, when
the Hungarian has retired into the turret to
await Weruers decision, and Uric. after an
angry scene with his father, says before he
leaves him:
" Keep your own secret, keep steady eye;
Stir not, and speak not, leave the rest 10 me
We must have no third babbIe tbrus, between us;''
implying. of course, that Gabor's mouth
must be stopped ~ Sralenheims had been;
Mr. Macready requested me to go up the
stage. and speak these words from the ex-
IRENE back Of il. to him. as be stood in the
very front of the foot lights, with face of
anguish--the picture for the eye to rest on.
40, no,' / said, IL must whisper those
oids in yonr ear surely; not call them out
loud. that would he to defeat their very OBJ
ject, by risking their being overheard"
"But," he replied, Il have always had it
done so. and wish you TO do IL in that man
ner."
But" said "t's an inconsistency. Shall
l. in the great hall of the castle, outside of
which are doubtless sentries, pages in wait
ing, courtiers and attendants passing and re-
passing shall cry out alond to you, This
is a terrible secret which this man has reveal
ed; it involves the honor aud safety of our
house; but keep still; leave it to me, and I'll
silence the fellows lips f"reverP'-that seems
to me not at all UrdiSembiaGie"
"Thpn you refuse to do it" he asked.
az could not do it," l said; "it's too incon-
sistent"
Then" said he, angrily, lyon are the
first Uric who ever refused me on this
point"
l was somewhat touched by this srtful re-
proach, and | replied:
"Mr. Macready, if you will give me your
honor, that if you were playing Uric, you
would act the scene in the way you direct me
to do. I'll yield at once"
"Oh!" said he, with peculiar infection OF
voice. "thdt's quite a different hingF'
i thought so.
Handenhof~s Note Book Of an actor.