The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-19
EDWIN ADAMS AS EVocu!ARpEg.-As

EDWIN ADAMS AS ENoCH!ARDEN.-Al
will be seen from an advertisement in
another column, the celebrated tragedian,
Mr. Edwin Adams, Is announced al
Washington Hall Tor Saturday afternoon
and evening next, in his famous specially
Of "EnOch Arden" The Toledo (ohio)
Blade Of January 10, says;
"As business men found out many years
ago that lie was too short 10 cultivate
more than one calling, so our leading
actors choose some one character, to the
study and elimination Of which they de-
vote their time and energies. Mr.. Edwin
Adams for the past three years has devots
ed himself conscientiously and with great
success to the cultivation OF specially,
and that specially has been the part Of
"Enoch Arden" in the dramatizstion Of
Tennyson's poem Of the same name. For
years Mr! AdamsIhas been known to The
public as Che hero OF the play called
1.-THE Dead Heart" and when in July,
1869, he first appeared in his new chRrac.
ter, he produced an impression on the
public mind which has deepened and
strengthened as his rendition became
better known. gIt ~ In
1.-THE play as il is presented, introduces
no situations or incidents which are not
part Of the original poem. The leading
features Oi the plot are reproduced essen.
TALLY as they appear in the poem, the
courtship and marriage Of 'Enoch' and
Annie Lee" the departure Of 'Enoch, on
his long voyage; the weary waiting Of the
lonely wife and children; the vision which
the vile secs of 'Enoch' under a palm
tree in which she sorrowlully imagines
that she has read revelation Of Enoch's
presence in Heaven; and all the painful
scenes Of the last act, the return Of
'Enocb,' his conversation with Marian
Lane, and the final scene at the village
inn.,
The story Of the play, as Of the poem,
touches the self.lorgetful sacrifice, the
self-abnegation tof the poor sailor who
was true 10 his conception Of duty in an
ordeal OF supreme anguish. The first
part OF the piece is quiet, even monoton-
Gus. There is almost nothing to attract
the audience in tho bluff, manly role Of
the sailor, or the ordinary incidents Of
domestic life. But In the last two scenes,
when we have the same frank and honest
nature ripened and matured by the ex.
perlence through which he has passed,
when the plot deepens with the culminat-
ing interest OF 'Enoch's' rescue, return,
and revelation, the deepened feelings Of
the audience are awakened, and there is
not the slightest indication Of tagging
till the curtain falls. In tArden's' char
acter, as depicted In the last two acts, we
see the personality unchanged, but ripen.
ed by experience and sorrow. One Is not
surprised that such an age-the prema.
ture age Of attliction-groWs out Of such
youth. It Is natural sequence. The
great scenes are those which depict on
the tropical island his delicious Joy when
rescued, his passion and prayer in the
hour OF his great trial at home, and the
triumphant grandeur Of his simple DEATH
MIR. Adams lived out Of hopeless sorrow
and the affecting struggle, and showed
a comprehension Of love, misery and for.
Undetermined with an artists skill to
represent them-before which the only
attitude Is that Of sincere respect and ad-
miration.
"Ot the secondary parts, the characters
of Annie Lee and Philip Ray were
excellently rendered, and to those actors
Dir. Adams is under obligations for most
creditable support, The scenery Wednes.
day was good, and one piece of mechan-
ism, that which represented the arrival
Of the rescue ship, was particularly pleas
ing.
The sale of seats will commence at
sheib's Music Store on Thursday morn
ing at 0 o'clock.