Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-02-25
EnOch Araen.

EDWIN ADAMS, the distinguished TraRedlan. |
the contemporary Of Davenport, Booth and |
Murdoch, will appear at the Grand OpeFa |
House, on Friday and Saturday Evenings, |
saturday Matinee, In his great character Of
Enoch Arden. OF the play aud Mr. Adams
acting, the indianapolis SsatineI, Of the 18Th
inst, speaks as follows:
With the pitiful story of Enoch Arden. as
told by Tennyson IN bis exquisite verse, the
world IS familiar. Many bright eye has
been dimmed and many fair brow shadOwed
by the sad tale of his mIsf0rtunes But IL
sympathetic souls are 80 moved at the mere
recital of his woes, how must they be affected
when Enoch Arden appears in person before
them and the tragedy is enacted before their
very eyes. And yet to this spectacle the
theatre going world has been accustomed,
through the representation OF the character
by Mr.. Edwin Adams
Mr.. Adams Is an actor of transcendent
merit one of the very best Of this age
whose record on the pages OF dramatic his
tory will be SO brilliant. In many great
characters he has no superior, and in some he
has no peers We never have been quite
satisfied with his appearance In EnOch Arden,
for the reason that the play Is not worthy OF
his genius. 1t Is pleasant play enough, and
with all tne characters well sustained, affords
a very enjoyable entertainment. But in plot
and incident 1t hardly seems to us to afford
full scope for the display of Mr.. Adams
genius. Still, we have no fault to find with
him, for making it his specially 1t is the
business Of the actor 10 cater to the popular
taste, at the same time striving to elevateRnd
refine it. That Mr. Adams' Euoch Arden is
altogether suited t. Tho popular taste was
abundantly demonstrated by the presence Oi
the magnificent audience which gathered al
the Academy last evening. Parquetts, anC
dress circle and family circle were crowded
and from even the upper gallery many darl
faces ana coal black eyes cleaned upon thOst
below.
{ Mr.. Adams has materially changed his make
up since he last appeared here, and for tn
better. IL his persOnatton has not improved
it is because there was almost no room for i'm
/ prOvement. And yet we thought that in tn
touching scenes in the third act, when, afte
years of suffering, he returns broken dow
old man, to breathe his last in the home of hi
: boyhoOd, only to find that his very childre
have forgotten him, and that she whose imag
I he has borne imprinted on his heart through q
those weary years, has become the wife OF al
other, his acting was finer than ever befOr
In his interview with the Jolly but warn
hearted mistress Of the "ROse," Whe
he first learns the awful tldings whlC
9 have been awaiting him, and in the seer
! Where ne sees through the window d
wife dandling on her knee the child Of
ancient rival. his acting was superb. The
\ was no Tanting, no tearing of hair, no c0nvu
!, siOns, but by the tones Of his voice, and Il
! collapse, so to speak, of his frame, q depth
! woe was expressed which brought the hand
> kcrchlefs of many Of the audience into Fequt
- ton.
! But Mr.. Adams impeEsonaton Of Z no
. Arden is so well known that any extended q
tice would be superhuOus. No one who q
appellate dramatic genius can afford TO mi
an opportunity to SEQ Edwin Adams in a
= character
n The sale of Seats viii commence at Bous
= man, Thomas Il Cos ON Thursday mOrni
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