, 1872-12-08

LY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY,
mona, Sir Peter Teoz7e, and Farmer Price,
though one is stately Venetian nohleman, the
pthe5 ethez IN English gentleman OF polish and Of
made to talk and walk alike, and The actor docs m
since 'Sa they WY II {sS behave sh0us aecornsp dGp'9 t.
his r preoonceivod notion of the way
an n I'D man" should; nlr: Lanigan hasasaumed
the t. clothes Of Sir Peter, and his wig. He has
tne outward and visible signs, but, not the in
ward and spiritual grace. The voice is that OF
jacob, and not Of Esau. II Sir PEERS body
servant were to have stolen his masters clothes,
9oa& aaa gfnS Ra2 to sn hys gay time q hanf be
Lanlgan has done, because Mr. L. has not at
tempted to give Sir Peter at all, but simply bis
conventional ssold man." thing which
never existed, except upon the stage, and
Harlequin or Cozumbine. Having committed
thus error, and having set out by playing some
thing not assigned to him, he is beyond tho
reach Of Criticism, just precisely as one would
refrain from criticising the prompter, were he to
tempta to play Sir Peter, then It Vii be time to to
see. whether he succeeds or fails.
5ar feter Ieazle was a gentleman Of wealth
and position that lived at the time when men,
though slngularly gross in many Of their habits,
yet generally assumed that diguifea, and. to our
notions. ultra-polite manner which harmonized
SO well with their rich dresses and their e1ab-
orate hair. In those days they still bowed. He
himself, though be had married g young wife,
was not broken down by age. He was an
weneh's black eye," choleric, impatient, and
intolerant Of contradiction but he was not
Beni1e !; be was not in his dotage. The old man
whom MIR. Lanigan and so many other actors
are are continually po2rtraying, is IN individual
into second childhood, especially when he has
anything to do with women. He beslayors the
object Of his affections. 4 man may be paet his
hot and lusty prime. ~ and yet not 60 a-wooing
as Smuggler does to Lady Lurewel1 There arc
chance intimations Of possibilities of better
things in some points in Sir PEERS interviews
with his wife, but the scenes would be atrocious
if the actor were really trying to play the part
assigned to him.
THUS, in the ssscreen scene, it is very nat11r-
man to Indicate the whereabouts Of the ss lit
tie French milliner," by kicking back with one
of his legs, pointing over his shoulder with his
thumb, and uttering slight squeak. Indeed,
these gestures are sometimes found in the re-
cesscs OF the provinces, and among the royster-
ers of the Board Of Trade. But, Sir Peter act
thus! Tut, he would as soon have
Put his thumb unto his noHe and spread hR fngera
out.
There was 8 time when this charmed the gal
leries, but that is past. They must have stronger
food. So why cannot Sir Lunigdn Teazle, in tho
aforementioned scene, in his fit Of uncontr OLA
BILE mirth at Joseph's depth, turn double flip
flap, and knock the screen over with his heels.
New, neat, striking, and not whit more out Of
place or more than disgusting than the leg,
thumb-and-squeak business. Slap my yitals
A very vulgar fellow"
One approaches Pendleton, alias SIR Otter,
with fenr and trembling. He is beyond all COM
mon rules. His play is no more to be compared
Frankenstein with those Of mere mortals. He
has gone into himself, and has evolved Q creature
which has likeness to neither gods nor men.
The critics speak Of his laughter as being
forced It is riliculously y-inadequate ex-
preston, Ike spealing Of Mont Blanc as
when an attempt is made to portray
that laugh. Occasionally It somewhat
resembles the sound which one might suppose
would ensue if ahen, which had just committed
Hon. John Wentworth, mistakingi it for the door
OF tho hen-house, and, safely settled in his
stomach, we're to keep on cackGng furiously.
Mon, mad with reyelry, never laughed thus !;
devils never laughed thus, as they rejoiced over
ruined souls; Che Bacchanals never laughed
thus in their maddest moments, aB they 1acer-
ated the body Of 0rpheus, "When by
the rout that made the hideons roar-'
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