New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-20
THE DRAM
UNION SQUARE THEATER.


Miss Charlotte Thompson came before this
public night the Union Square Theater and acted
Jane Emc The house was we'll fed and the actress
was greeted with cordial plaudits folio we'd with atten
tive interest and rewarded with copous applause. APP
propriate for the drama-the rooms at
Roeassrs house being especially rich and handsome In
composition and adornment The parts in the play we're
found to been discreety cast and the total enec OF
the performance was that Of brilliant symmetry MI
Frederick Robinson distinguished himself In hieh de-
gree the and fuiness with when ne erasped
and embodied the gloom austerty outward fret ana In
ward tenderness Of Rocheser-welding all THESE
Of this romantic and defiant personality Dy INTENSE
passion and sufusing the entire, finished identity WIN
an atmosphere OF the my sterous and the picturesque
This was noble piece Of acting and 1t betokened ootn
the ne ability OF the actor and his study Of this subject
at its fountain-head
Neither the character the experience OF Jane Eyre
ia externally dramatic The action that they Involve
passes for the most part within themselves. 10 use
them in play was, necessarily to turn them wrong
side ards,-makng utterance take the pace VI ic
preston depicting by word and act the nuetutons vi
passion and the growth Of love In the heart and Nina
aud making ordinary aud quiet occurrences ny
pictorial establishment aud exaggeration. Changes
had to be made both In the incidents OF the original
story and the of its toward each one
and something of the peculiar passionate, retcent'
Intellectual individuality Of the heroine had 10
be sacrificed. Madam Brchpfeifer executed her
work with skill, and her drama has been wen
charlottesville from some dfIseDess Of style-to the
English STAGE Spectators Of this piece do not feel the
charm OF spiritual srangeuess and tantalizng lowell
ness which invests Eyre In the original story anu
they must seek elsewheref they would find ifor true
perception OF the passionate vitality and Imaginative
briliance OF Charlotte Brone's genius but they see
some excellent portraiture OF character ana SONS no
tracery of the growth OF between two original per-
sons and they are conscious OF the spell OF the element
of suspense in fiction. The drama OF Jane Eyre ac-
cordlngy has power and value and Its recurrence upon
our sta &c Is to be recorded with satisfaction.
Miss Charlotte Thompsons performance OF Jane Eyre
IA substantially the same that We saw and described
last Summer Delicate Intuition and tremuous sensi-
bity are at the basis IT, and form and color arc
notable for symmetry and brance. The manner OF
the actress the drawing scene Is rather tat Oh
the fine lady than the real lady, But In the test scenes
she il nature itself The ideal Of prosecuted youth Is
presented and the ideal Of a ripe. lnxuriant, early
womhood that can bewitc the sOundest and the sad
dest undcrsta nding II people wish to study woman's
power over the weakness of even the strongest man,
they have but to this play. 1t would not
be amss ths lesson practically learned Just now'
when so many selfrishteous people rejecting on
their own immunity from temptation ana their own
power to resist it, The desplsed stage
NAV happen to have its lessons for those VINO ue
sp,se H. "Jane Eyre mad its lessons as novel; IL
means some; hing play; and especially u means
something when is Interpreted by slicn an actress as
Charlotte Thompson, such an actor as FREDERICK
Robinson. The full cast OF tue parts may oe reau III
another column Of this paper.