Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-12
SALVlNPS "OIHELLO."
Nv Marcaret Sharpa.

The love stories Of tho world are i'm.
mortal. The ideal love is scarce met with
upon earth. Marriage ia in too many in
stances q synonym for endurance, and that
is all many expect.
The ssms causes which wrought physical
impsrfeCtion, have also wrought msntslsn
spiritual d~eformities 80 that few persons
are capable of the love that is s!rong as
death, that knows 10 change nor shadow
OF turning. But occasionally q fine soul
meets with its counterpart, as Heloise and
Aoelard; Dante, Francesca de Reiveri and
Cleopatra; and the myths Of literature are
20 wrought with charm We half believe in
Paul and Virginia, Romeo and Juliet,
Dido and Ulysses, Hero and Laander,
Othello and Desdemons. The world. "old
and gray and cold" aud With WitEered
heart, forever turns backward to these
. of song and story with a thrill born
Of remembrance-G remembrance of that
first morning when the stars sang their
love notes in presence Of the new planet,
lust trembling on the earliest verge OF
,ts existence. To hear Salvini interpret
the psssion of 0thello, one would Don
decide this to be the pre-eminent love story
of all ages. In the lineat characters of
which we read and know there is always a
aniou of two things, strength and tender,
ness. hoy often do we see exhibitions OF
these divine attributes in the life Of David,
VINO was a man after qod'5 own heart.
And what finer picture have We IN histGE5
| than that OF the Roman emperor and gen
srsl whose love for his sou prompted him
n lose an eve so- him when that son had
broken a law the penalty Tor which was the
loss of both his eyes,
Salvini's superb physique, mis- air Of I'M
! dauuted courage and splendid selt.conf,
| dence, impress one at ais Erst appearance
With an idea of his strength, both OF mus
Gle and will. When be takes Desdemons
in his arms, it seems that he might crush
| the life out of her body in an instant. BIt
| mis- touch is D, so gentle, his cares AND
Kiss 40 tender, she could but love him
! there would be no other thing for a woman
| ike her. A dispsssionRte reader OF the
| tragedy mighrwonder that sGeh q nature a
| OtbeIlo's could hold the uuwaveriDg IoVt
and trust of such q nature as Desdemons's
But Sslyini drives all doubt away with on'
flash of the lovelight from his splendid
ewes, with one pressure of his grand srn
about his beloved. Any will
nall q womsu's soul in her, nigh
thrill with rapture at the revelation o
,r,S love So It's ideal lover bsstoTs
She m;o1. teel within her hsslt Of heart
that il we're heaven to be kissed onss Siti
such divine passion aud Inn De torn HINT
from limb compared to the tame, sp"c'iIss'
life of the ordinary mortal. 1t is almost
pitiful to watch the faces OF VOmeH in al
audience listening to Sslvini. To man.
Of them comes, for the first time, the con
cepnon of what existence would be 1t Low,
were ike that for each one. Through tn,
ersmped, dwarfed possibilities of tbei
natures struggles a new longing that ma.
live for an hour and then die st one glsnc,
Of reality. The Buddhistie philosoph.
seems a wise one for such souls. 1t wsait
be better not to have known there was eve
such love possible than TO know possession
of it lies forever beyond ones reach.
Othello's suspicion, jealousy aud rc
morse, a. depicted by this prince Of actor
are awful to behold, and when be drsgs tn
slight and terrified D.sdemous 10 ne
chamber and then smo.hers her With hi
cruel hands, o sense of mingled helpless
ness and indignation COMES upoa the aud
tor. At the Boston theatre q few week
ago, a man was heard to exclaim throug
his set teeth, "the hound rdike to thras
him.
But the memory to be carried away b
q woman to live in her heart forever, I
bloom like a rose in a shaded valley, is IN
memory of two great arms about 8 siendt
torn, of two dark eyes burning down int
\ fair face, OF two passio tste bps that his
the golden hair, the white brow, the ros
leaf cheek, with kisses o goa might o.
spair 10 give and q saint might die to r
ceivs. For Salvini does something no o;h'
modern actor does, he iuterprets the ide'