New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-14
WALLAcKss THEArER.

mortal So. bowips TO this ubiversallsw, Mr.. Wd'sos
closes what well deserves the title Of his season q
performance. which, from It's length and attractive
nts locked as II IL bsds fair too, to be the immorss
For hen. tonight, be tshes his farewell benefit IL eAs
character OF Benedick, and thus most huy crowns
series OF reprosents atoms which, for duration and DIN
lapey, bss never been surpassed on tho Amenose
stage he win have performed one LEnSrea - nvfy-
fee rigkts-thy six nights a. Shyiock. sixty e'gnf
the Veteran, Elk in Don Cesar be Baysn fOuf Ia ~
You Like H. 1--WE in the Rent Day three In the SchosT.
three in the Stranger, three in the Win, three u
Charles two in the Iron Chest, IN the Wsess ard
one in Much Ado About Nothing, being the closing
, performaI &C OF tonight.
Ii other countries proud Of their veterans, Aus
ira honors her Meiernich, and England gorei IN hor
| Pam msy we not with such LET Of riumphs scfore
us exuh too IL our veteran and his exploits Nos~ch
achievement has been performed in our day upos mo
stage. When, four yesrs since, NJ. Edwin w.
rest, the great American Tagedian, lived IN msmo-
rable engagement through some sixty nigats, wseo
great wonder 10 minds theatrical. But this vas ecipsd
| by the engagement of Mrs Matilda Heroa, at Wei
JACKIE and last Fall, by that OF Mise Agnes Robertson,
| at Nblos, who played if we remember right, some
teventy-6ve nghtsthe onRes. eng agement played up
| o this of Mr.. walacs. With want Of snilantry
which is not his usual characteristic he has pushed
| his far and gentle occupant from the throne and
mounted in her stead. AT present the veteran wcsrs
| the Champion belt.
| Perhsps, however, the most wondrous part Of this
acl ievenept is that it has been effected by who
remen bers seeing the King in Hamet played ir ksee
breech,s aud cooked hat at the old Park Thsater.
! and who made his first appearance on the New York
boards some forty three years ago. But the labor
we delight in physics pain; and even for such toll.
public applause and its best accompaniment
ca fers-are sweet return. Ii there be 10 the house
| tonight one who Mr.. Welsck when he
appeared 'y-three years sincs he will, doubtless.
fuo in bis favorite much change. Years and physical
| suffering have made their havoc with who put
| on the gloves with Byron and who was counted
/ among the handsomest of his day. But, on tho
whole, time has touched him lightly with her gray
wing as she passed. His features are bronsed with
health a. well as furrowed with age. His form asd
port still retain much of the manly grace and freedom
Of his prime, have his spirits lost one jot Of
| their elasticity.
| Nor govt nor toll bis freshness destroy.
But time still leaves all Eton in the boy"
The only traces that can be recog nzod Of nfrmity
in the precautionary care with which he husbands
his and the elaboration which some
tunes takes the place oi spontaneous vvacy and esse.
| With him, with many who have fingered long
| upon the stage you not confined TO appsuding
| escapes from failure cherishing the sparks thai
| plinmer in the embers of enfeebed powers. HE
| performances have all the grace and much Of the
| yigor Of his youth with more OF massiveness. The
years which bring the philosophio mind bring greater
subtlety of thought and finer poetic appreciation.
| We do not desire here to dwell on the performances
of Mr.. WslIack during the psst ten mosths. We wiz
not, however, dismiss them with the tritc rems-k
| o.. Al toovx IN neaH des
The study Of life is in them, and not to he exhausted
in the appreciation of any one night. New beauties
reward each examination. We thought We
| could perceive in several of Mr.. Wsllacks persona
tiens-es specially in that Of Shyook, which sppesnts
Us to surpass all others in its epic competeness-evi
denee of increasing study and more delicate poetic
sense, "a Mr.. walack feels that too mi
nutely clear INSIGHT too patiently too long use It
for the perfect understanding Of poet and
philosopher. IL is the perception of this which, while
it keeps actor really great, yet keeps him always
| a modest student.
We cannot say We are admirers Of the school OF srt
Of which Mr.. Walack is the leading living type, Of
which John Kemble was the founder, and Of which
| Mr.. Macready was a follower, carrying the melo-
dramatic style with great into tragedy owing
to his studious pains and physical energy This
school has the effect of turning the attention far too
exclusively 10 dIt anu tnose WHO cdnhot ditAih pr
fection in itand they are the msny-acqure manner
sms and glitterip the coil of borrowed greatness Tho
power to make an audience feel consists in the actors
suffering the emotion he Stimulates. He that feels
not himself the passion he would raise, will talk tos
sleeping audience, Cibber says, and the axiom ought
to be Inscribed in letters Of gold in every greenroo
When was the phenomenon Of An actor turning pale
with anything but powder and the lOss OF rouge ex-
hibited on the stage in day And 10 real tears,
Mrs Sddons ID said to have shed them, and there she
| had the advantage over her stately brother. The
tendency of all art to stiHe genius repress spon
taneous emotion and gesture, to restrain impalse snd
make actor. put on framework Of stage conveo-
tonalities with the of the part. If taught 70
feel themselves the character all this apparatus would
be unnecessary. Nature would prompt and she Is the
only sure prompter But as it is the tendency oil ao-
tors TO attach undue Importance to their own doags,
they substitute their peculiar skill and ingenuity for
the suggestion of the mind until the form only re-
mans after the spirit has fed
| But whatever opinions there may be A. TO the ex-
ceence Of different schools, there can be none ~ 70
| the superior excellence OF Mr.. Waack 10 that To
which be belongs nor a. to the services be hsA oon
| ferred upon the stage. Nor could ask . brighter
omen for the future Of the drama in this country than
! that such man should play such an engagement ~
| H. at which will find tonight deservedly brillisnS
close.
! On Monday there will be produced at this thester
new comedy Of con, derabe power, both In consruc-
ton and dialogue which in London had run aimose
equal to Mr. Walack's here. II is entitled "ET-
tremes, OF, Men Of the Day, and will be very strong