The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-18

Last evening Mr. Frederick Warde
opened his series of performances with that
most difficult of Shakesperian characters.
Hamlet. Although largely at variance
from Mr. Barrets impersonation, and also
from, Mr.. Booths, which we have been in
the habit of estimating as finished pro.
| ducHons, yet Mr.. Warde provrd
himself the artist fully eouoi
to the role he had assumed. With
Il deep, flexible, effective voice, signiG.
cant gestures, remarkable facial expression.
he IS capable of high tragedian triumph.
and wildly. impressiyely portrayed FAST
night that psychological phenomenon. the
keeh-wltted, gloomy, melancholic, half
Grazed human being, the young Prince of
.paternally imposed duty TO perform in
his own peculiar way. The yaria.
tons of character that are implied
by these contradictory roles were critically
performed last evening. His scene with the
shost, at the play before the King and
Queen, where, in the in, cnious mouse
! trap by Hamlet himself conceived he
watches with keen anxiety the effect of
me unfolding of the plot, his crawling to
the feet OF the royal, guilty pair, his inter
view with his mother, that also with Ophe-
ia ana lhalIy his exhibition of passion at
the grave of Ophelia, and his contest with
Laertcs We're all admirable delinea.
IONS OF the conceptions of the
great bard.
Mr., Curnn, as Palonus, is an i'm
provcment on Mr.. Curran as C,s
sus last year; and in the graye-digging
scene he was especially good.
But what shall we say of Miss Florence
Elmore' Ophelia, that us the simple. CON
ilding, loving girl, yet obedent daughter,
Us the crazed orphan, made so by her
lovers hand? Throughout she moved her
audience to that highest of all enthusiasm,
silence that seemed to fear the loss of a
word or a look An adorGd member of one
OF the leading and prominent families of
mat grand old State of natures nobility
Alabama related and connected with is
Lest blood. her youth is OH the dramatic
stage Tor the reason that Pope as a boy
wrote verses, because he could not hrln
IT, Her Ophelia was imprisoned enough.
Tor Ophclia's temperament, and subdued
enough, and yet fully up to the standard in
the exhibition of a grief, a despair, a sor-
rowing insanity that burst upon her bud.
ding life because of the harvest of sudden
mlSeries that writes an epitaph upon the
frumbllng mind before the body has been
benumbed by that better friend
death. Handsome of feature and
of figure, with piercing, yet gentle, black
eye, and long. raven hair, yet of blonde
complexion, her sweetness throughout the
role last night gave her what her Henriettc
in the Two Orphans last season, had prom.
ised, the reward which ever waits on genius
under the guidance ofrigid study.
The other parties in the cast did perhars
sufficiently well, though they were
sunk to lesser note by contrast with
the. characters that We're the pith
OF the piece, andthrough whose mouths the
great author makes pearls of thought
throughout the entire play, to drip through
silver strains and drop into philosophc
proverbs. We torbear some criticism which
might he made in the matter of awkward
entrances and exits and stage paraphernalia,
but our audiences should bear in mind the
very limited facilities of that stage. To.
night we are to have Damon and Pythias.