Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1883-11-08

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New York November 9Th, 1888.
Henry Irving has come, been seen
and conquered, though not in the
measure that he perhaps anticipated.
After all the enthusiasm of the first
night we have come down to sober
criticism, and do what we will, we
cannot set up Mr.. Irving as heaven
born genius. He is simply a clever,
pains taking, careful actor. As a
stage manager he excels anybody of
the AGE, but as all actor, there are
dozens of men on the metropolitan
stages who are us good as he, but who
are passed by unnoticed, solely be.
cause they have no characteristic
tricks of the trade to draw attention
to them. 1t is in art as it is in bust,
ness. Ones ware have to be display
ed the attention Of the public must
be aroused by the flaming poster, the
lugebrious sandwich man. or the
neverfailing chrome. Irving is too
clever a man not to have found this
out years ago.
He is full of mannerisms and &C.
centricities. His face is an intellect
usl oddity, and his figure a physics
marvel. lie is awfully thin, and his
legs are asthetical spindle shanks,-
One can understand now how Oscar
Wilde with his distorted vision, anc
deformed expression saw of them
while their owner played Hamlet
that one was beautiful and the Other
a poem. Irving mouths horribly
He walks as if palsied, In fact he is
a living aggregation of all that is un-
attractive, and yet, to say the honest
truth, he has that within him, that
talent of harmonizing all these unat-
tractive qualities and blending them
together like the bits of glass in a
Kaleidoscope, and presenting to you
a picture of beauty. Miss Terry,
his companion is worthy helper
Two people better suited to each 9th
er could scarcely be found. She is as
thin as he, but where his face is
strong, hers is winsome, and the two
together make very attractive stage
picture.
But after all one cannot help blush
ing for our people, who are ever ready
to throw themselves at the feet of
English celebrities. While they are
here, they feed us with honeyed words,
hut no sooner does the time come
when they need us no longer than
they cut us. Emily Faithful is case
in point, and a gentleman only spoke
to me the other day about her. when
she came here last year, and set her
self up as special patroness for Miss
Pattison, a member of Mrs Langtry' e
company, she brought over num-
her of letters of introduction to liter
airy and society people. They did a
great deal for her, and she made a
very successful lecture tour, while
Miss Pattison also got better recog-
milton than she would otherwise have
secured. When they returned at the
end of their season they cut and ig-
nored everybody. and offended many
people who were not to proud to be
hurt Now Miss Faithful is back
again, and wants people to help her
to make another success with her lee
lures, but this time people will cut
hor.
am Informed by gentleman in a
position to know, that there is no
truth whatever in the statement that
Carl Sehurz is about to retire from
the editorship of the Evening POST
The whole story came through re-
mark in John Swinton's paper, in
which that worthy though erratic
journalist expressed the hope that his
friend Carl would leave the trammels
of a monopolist press, and start pa
per of his own and callit Carl Schurz's
paper. Swinton's sheet by the way
is meeting with great success. 1t
contains a great deal Of what people