, 1881-02-20

cess After plnyins farewell engayemenrs
! INAurlu ana lfartelona he returned to Florence
! 1870 be received IN otter TO pluy in Sour
america, which he accepted, and sailed with
! @ Mrse @tnoatrtcnl company 1or that country fro,
the voyage was long, arts niler his arrival b.
Wns abic 10 play in only three clties,-Monte
'ineo nn IN baenoS =, A Ayres and ZIG de Janeilo"
IN sept III. lS.3, Salyinf, with all Italian com
pany, arrived in this country and opened at tbe
academy of Music, New York, In ".Othello.'
saivlnl playing the title role, and bis perform.
ance demonstrated the fact thas he was one o1
The greatest. If not the greatest, exponcnts o1
that r1le thnt ever 1rod the stage. He made {
TOUR through this'country, and. strange 10 say
London in the following year, and a few months
ago made his appearance in America supported
ny an English- speakng company T,;a nnder & fhe
diences Of New YorK, Boston, and elsewhere.
evening" eHe '90 WEE Wenesaay @ evenine
"Hamtct Thursday evening, The Gladi-
ator": and saturday evening. "Otnello-" The
Eiiie w,ton, Mrs: +. /. nasenport. Mis- julia
Stewart, Mrs. II. \: Weaver, Miss May Ltv-
ingslon, Miss Laura Thorp. Mcssrs. ". Fl. Crisp.
b. billings. j. II. Hunter. n D. Jones, Frank
Nilday. b. ". yandcrin, Charles Mason, George
Warren, J: II: Ring: ant J. Nnnary: Upon the
will appear in 1.-THE Guv'nor." light comedy
which has been well spoken or
M.vICKER Upon KEENE's SUCCESS.
"Keene,'' said n theatrical man the other day
to Manager Mcvicker, ''whcn he gets toned
down, when he rubs away bis impetuosity,
when he softens the turbulence Of his emotions,
when he has less vim and more art-see?-when
he polishes and retines and"
"Whr polish and rrfinc?" said the veteran.
" The very faults you tind ID Eeene hare given
him success
''Thats hard on American TASTE" said tho
theatrical mar.
- Nothing or the kind. Our traKedians of the
past ten years have toned down too much.
They have IN some cases toned away all dramatic
fire and energy and everything that rouses
an audience into enthusiasm and makes
them sympathze deeply with the character
they sec represented. Too much of what they
callin London tho cup and-saucer' style OF act-
ing has taken possession OF our actors. It has
taken possession Of them almost as thoroughly
as the teapot school OF acting OF Mr.. Kcmble
had taken possession of tho English ACTORS when
Edmund kcan appeared. I think the SUCCESS
of Tom keene is protest against the cup and
saucer style Of playing that began with the
taste for the Robertsonian comedy- The dispose
don OF the tragedians has been to drift into what
they call the classic, the high artistic: but irisnt
necessary to be sleepy to be either classic or
period in which it is placed. put
the actors Of tho present day into it,
Ind 1t becomes almost burlcsque, betausc the
actors, while they deliver the lines, don't enter
nto the spirit of it. This is the reason the critics
;ay its languagsss stlted and Its sentiments an
quated. Some of them try to polish Ii0oinar
md the Gladiator. Why polish them? The
more you polish, tho further you get from the
:baracters Claude -nelnotte is now called a NAM
g1tTiF nh r. At-~
ctots VINO have made the character namhy- |
'amhy, Anderson didn'r make him namby- y-puti-
., out warm, heroic mau. 1rcmc1nbcr that !
.ady of Iyoas, " You 0 can't aua!eF gct II ena ca,l
you read It n the drawtng:room style. Nut
etor trying to play .Nacbeu. In the polished
az It might have been Il swaltow-tatl coat
arling in the sarp Of the wild Scotch catama-
an u1cheth is melodratnntic character, |
rvlng faflFd in the character becausn, If re-
aembcr rightly, he tried to refine Machtth-to
ollsh him He has fire, md warmth, and yigor
, every other character he plays, as near as I
IN make out. It must be these q1iniitics that
AIRY him through, because, people say, bis
Doth had the intensity and the fire, and stirred
le!r audiences"
Some Of the critics. said the theatrical man.
have, sec, been comparing Tom Keene ad-
an anMgegsly with tile elder Booth. What do
I"Hi Hcenc. fcpl1eu Mr.. McFtcker, tcOulcS |
enrer to tho elder Booth than any of them, hut
le elder Booth wns u betterschoar than Keene.
nave payed with him. Forrest in his later
ays bcgun to polish down. and he polishrd too
iuch, but in bis younger duys his 0tlelo had Il
jagged grandeur resembling Saivini's. re-
'e1nber we'll the elder Booths U,ltcYo. He was
raycnous little brute His jealous scenes
oud make your hnir stand on end His was
'e virlie school of acting. and any other school |
out Of place In such role. Bnrrctt hus
'lisacd Cdssips until he has almost polished the
sence OUT OF it. Mccullough started iu |
&c right way. but he is falling into the same
For. keene's Richard is Of the sl1ne school rs
ut OF the elder Booth. 1t Is good, aud he will
prove it. Let me tell You another thing
'iznrro. and other strong phys, which be-
me absurd when they ure acted By .the-cup-
ID -saucer actors were revived By Euerc, [
nturc 10 say he would make Il success or them {
I'm McCuilnugh lately. l beltore, tried
'izarro,, ent ne failed. Very likoly it was be-