New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-01

they guyed Mr.. Teuuysons piece through inc "oS
two acts with q merciess merrment wIhch was
distressing enough to his friends and TO thoso WIN
knew that two of his sons were in the house.
The blacker Edgars villainy grew the more MAR
ious became he PIT. The more obvious he appo'i.
q. the moral or patriot,c sentiment the more drec1
and dead v were the voleys of hooking cheers OF
the more marked the still more murderous SILENCE
Some of the most dangerous lines ever put ri'o al
actors mouth tell to Mr.. VEINS lot rs Edgar anu
wer, delivered with unfinchng distinctness' ~
twenty minutes more sine NIGH; have been iniho'
provoked o rbald yell. One OF the peasant
girls says her lover has listed as souser 10
which Dora answer. "Ah, there are no soldiers IKE
Tho English sodersr-a bit of claptrap %hioh the
house received with dea silence. SO they did tne
remark Of Dora to Dobson: "YOu are an English
farmer. not foreign assassin" When the DINA
father. sIernly uraing from his daughter demanu,
niteousv to DO led away. the house a2paudel anu
repled: Don't bring HIM back again." When DoI"
repeats her 90 I'd night to her sister it s echoeu 'u
mntnousiy from the 'front.'" Good night" ana theh
Cool pight" with remarks not necessary 10 repio
duce TO these ebulI ions not merely tue sen'''"'
Int the dction lent itself Mr.. Tennys0n Is Deyonn
dispu:e great master OF English but IL mas peascu
HIM to strew tn pieces with sentences 80 "o"A IA
s,rnc uro and plrIse that 1t Is comohine"t ~
speak OF them puerile. SO much innocence " 'n'
language of EVERYDAY life has seldom before peeh
seen outside the nursery.
The soft-hearted who would explain away 'li7
dissse or say the house was in hostile temper; is
patience exhausted by long waiting Dei"re lhe cur
tain went ~ and so on. think not III was nov
TOO angry 70 bestow dozen rounds Of cheers on Mr.
Gladstone who entered but moment before inc
play began. Throughout the evening 1T SEEMED TO
n late al
animosity OF pers nal dislike. There was, on the
contrary enough good will To Mr.. Tennyson to pre-
vent The de nonstratons from becoming savage; as
an English audience is quite capable OF becoming
on occasion sense of humor prevailed all through
When Mr. Kelly came before the curtain in response
to lronical calls the pit IN aluSion 20 the atne'stic
homies If the first act, mingled cries ior the
wlta. cries for Bradaugh. And Mr.. heIlys an
1nouncement that Mr.. Tennyson was not III 'he
house was met with loud shouts OF bravo pra'o'
which were satircal enough. no doubt, but not ZERO
e,ous sat near enough to u noisy quarter OF the
nj, To hear some of the talk that went on. III was
if ANYTHING rather regref Al III tone
The Edgar. on whom the heaviest of the work fell
was Mr. Herm?nn Vein. who played the part with
that technical skill for which he is Justly famed but
with all the more ceriany OF shlpwreck' his
clean.cut elocutlon brought out with deadly clear
ness the full mraning of every priggish and selfish
and monstrous speech. No'hing bat Mr VEINS
well-deseryed popularity saved HIM from being
Kissed off the sta C. and the piece with hun. AS II
bappened not only MIR Vein, but Mrs Bernard
Berre Dora and Mr. Charles Kelly Farmer Do68onl
are great favoriteS with the public Mr. heIlys
acting was mastery Mrs. B-ere's intelligent. SYM
pathetic. aud above all, in the force d fury OF
that tempest, courageous To save the piece was
beyond their power but their presence secured
hearing 10 the end for play that in less competent
n ,nds vould have foun ered before the second act
had run its course. G. W. s.