The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-20

was dispelled last night with those
who saw his Richard III. From COM
mencement to close it was a tragedian's
triumph, through artistic instinct and care
full culture. Iato the very marrow of the
character of the deep-dyed villain, the Duke
OF dloster, he entered. He comprehended
its ylrllity, he glassed its shrewdness and
he swept the field of the passions that
swayed the soul Of the bold, bad man. His
woong of the widow of the dead King
Henry, whom he had slain, and which
woman he turned by his persuasive,
fascinating eloquence, from an attempt
upon his life, to assent to his pleadings to
becomch his wife, and in the very presence
OF the husbands corpse that scarce Law cold
IN death through the hate of the aspiring
hcnd, was a finished piece of acting. in
voice, gesture aud general manner. His
dream IN the tent and the portrayal of the
effects upon his Weakening brain.
w wa, to,,i not surpassed we say it
W mon hesitation, by any effort
IN that delneahon by even Mr. Forrest, for
whom therein We have time and again
heard thunders Of applause, In the last
scene, or at the battle on Bosworth field,
where he meets Richard, the spot fatal to
MN as Philiippi to Brutus, as Water
100 to Napoleon, he eXcelled himself:
and throughout the fencing duel
the house resounded with applause
that could no longer be pent up
In King Richard, the dominating features
are animal force, intellectual power, deep
cunning and bold and INSCRIPTIONS mmor-
allty, outrageous in the designing of a dark
and bloody deed, tyrannical with his friends
toward It's enforcement, and unrelenting in
his purposes and his hatred of all persons
and things that lie in the pathway of
his ambition. And yet with all this
Vlgor this apparent rccklessness, the
humpback, "unshapely liend sent into this
breathing world scarce half made up" he
possessed the assimilation that "could
smile and smile again through the face,
WINE murder WAS in the heart" All these
passions, these sentiments, these intents,
some OF stormy nature some of pur-
eSt Pathos, and some of finest delicacy
OF handling, Mr.. Warde last night
portrayed with the hand of an artist the
finish of a genius His work was patent on
It's lace, both in the power of its express
SION and the delicacy of its shading as the
work OF disciplined mind running in the
earnest channel its love. We had thought
Damon" was the piece OH which he would
found his future fame, we believe now
Richard II. will place him on that great
pinnacle his ambition courts
Mr., Cuwan, as King Henry and Mr.. Aveling
us nlcnlhonui were fully up to their parts,
while the latter, who had won such favor
on me previous night as Pythias, was
l0udly applauded for his impersonation
: The Lady Anne. by Mrs. Warde, in the
stead OF Miss. Gilmore, who was quite i'll all
day yesterday was most ailectngly rcndcr d
without flaw or break This is the first
effort Of Mrs Ward for the
past two years, and she was thus
suddenly called in to supply Miss Elmore
In the cast, and her own quick talent
was thus demonstrated. Surely Mr..
Marde has in her help-mate indeed Miss
Marion Clifton, as the Queen, was also fully
equal to her role so, likewise, Miss Louise
Demmon, as the Duchess. The Prince of
Wales and the young Duke of York were
excellent support, and little Ottolene clearly
her business and does it excel
iGntly well. We wish this excellent COM
bnation fine success wherever they 30.