, 1876-05-07
McVicker and His Company-A Thea
tre Not Dry.Goods Store.
Gossip from the Green.Room---
The Critics on Queen Mary"
A Call on HIT. Hatch--Tho Kate
Douglas Coucert--Beethovan
Society.
Enafcal Notes at Home and Abroad.'.
Thittier's Centennial Hymn.

IN CHICAGO.


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the pen 1t thus polnt' the argument Is
faulty, and the delicate question arises
rhathar critic has the rjeht to notica reyerses
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tngthlng ont pun unoer any circumstances. As
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nent ssnce newspapers 90 cr1tlclse taeatres'
70 are unable to eea why the manager should
not ba IA oman to attack A. tha actor. Be afv.vs
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PRAISE; Tn5 should % Dc exempt 1rom the same
penalties? Il = manager is generous and intel
tigent, We commend him; II he ia stingy and
.s.rox in his views. why should ws not entrs.t
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hem.
During the past week Mr. Booth esye. fer the
6rg< nme thi. se,.on. I,,a ranaerinr Of Cardinal
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"osey. Inc aou7e-plosta"" announced snlA
u hia h1st assumption OF the part IN Chicago. It
b possible, however, that he has undertaken it
hers bafors. Thu records Of TIM tbeatr. and
thoaA ~ Y,oat ~ tha o)r ot.v.ro.r. .n+.r.d ao
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konefa4y Ii Inc mo OF 4o4 saa5 Is Il IN
sven chance whether the announcement OF
new production be correcE. II this be ths first
time that Mr.. Booth has presented Cardinal
Holsey IN Chicago, there is ground to hope that
be IL not firmly attached to the part, and will
consent to put 1t on the shelf. ut least until hs
AN find Queen Katherine to sustain the bur
den Of the play. Tho version Of Henry VIII"
which Nr. Booth plays is simply intolarablo.
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daring surgeon. Queen Katherine, Who haz al
wayB been recognized rs the principal personage
n tho drama, il allowed but Two scenes5-the
one IN which ahe pleads for the people aud the
Duke Of Buckingham, and the scene Of her trial
Buckingham is reduced TO thu st4te Of lay
sccne OF Buckingham passing to execution and
the scene between Queen Katherine and the two
Cardinals in ksr apartment For this last omis-
eien, 1t must be confessed, there ia abundant
editson does not contain the scene, aud
It waa never given by Mr. kemble
and Mrs. Siddons in their famous representation
of the play. M1. 2nd hrs Charles Kezn, how
eyer, in producing Henry VIII" 1t the Prip-
cess Theatre, rhere it ran 100 nights, retained |
The scene Of Katherine With tho Cardinals, and |
made it ono OF the chief fearuros Of tbs per-
rornsnce. Persons who aaw it expressed WON
dor that Mrs. Siddons ever consented to sactidce
70 splendid an opportunity for effective acting. |
4Ao pIeEu1up1Ou WA8 kQA< 8Q8 N65 per6n&QAd to
DO 10 BY her brother, who .Tas unwilling to sink |
he dignity Of tho CARDINAL lon as it descsnds
n this scene- Mr. Booth also has presidents,
hongh no sufficient ones, for cutting the play t
up roughly M such manner ~ TO make the |
Cardinal the principal character. Several actors
If note have consented to this mutilstion for the
orovipcaA, OF il from England, have thought |
my version eH the play good enough tor Ame1i- |
~; but no ceIebrstod actor has sver riaked hia |
equation in London On such performance
As Mr. Booths reputation in America is the
most valuable he has, be seems scarcely wise
n subjecting 1t TO th.a strain America has che |
1ght to expect better things Of him We have |
70 hss1tation in saying that 1t would be better |
or Mr. Booth not to play Cardinal Wolsey, than t
0 play it It The expensa Of 80 great VIOLENCE to
|ha1Bpeare. II the play uers tolerably complete |
tter thu rsy1aog process had been gone
hrough With, or it the CARDINAL by any exercise |
i human Ingenuity, cou1d be made the principal |
haracter IN homogepe eous DRAMA there would |
q NO objection to cutting Shakespeare freely. |
but when the vhole action Bu1ers and two 1ctz |