Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-18
SHAKESPEARIAN ART.
NYN CRINKLR DISCUSSES ANDERSON,
BOOTH AND BARRETT.
Formal Opsning Of The Winter Ss,nn-Shakss-
psarian Treats IN Sara Magnificent
Pnspsct-Ths Coming Of Potter
The Nav Cleopatra.
Nttr York WO'ii.

: Merchant OF venice Dy bOOln anu Dbl
rstt at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, that
these worthy artists have concluded that
the frame of their picture is, after all, Of
more consequence than anything else. TX
teasive preliminary announcements have
te n made of the extraordinary realism OF
the e productions. Accuracy OF archittc
ture, t~ruthfulness of topography, strength
and finch of masonry, mstchlets joinery,
hrilliancy of coloring, &c, SC, are dwell
upon as ii these mechanical and pictorial
results hid bsen the aim Of Messrs. Booth
and Barrett's long and honorable careers.
The monks of France and Germany used
to bring the toll from jerusalem to be
buried IN, and they died happier in view
of the Legendary dirt. l wonder II br.ckS
and mortsr weIe brought from Venice for
the architecture of Shylock whether the
performance would he any letter or more
interesting.
have too great a IeJpect for the his.
triouism of Messrs. Booth and Barrett to
bling an engineers eye to the measure
ment of it.
What strikes me at this moment is the
large prospect Of Shakespeare opening up
on Broadway.
The New York mansg gar always held,
down to Au9ustin Days time, that
Shakespeare spell ed failure. Bat none o.
those managers had q Rehan, aud none OF
them used Shakespeare with annual dis
cretion. Just now v OF the best'knowa
theltres abandon themselves to the Bird
with a gli.tsring recklessnes, that will
amazs the conservative Mr.. Dily-who,
by the way, is trying to hide his emotion
in melodrams at Niblo's.
There is a popular notion that Shakes
peare had Mary Anderson in his eye when
he wrote the winters Tale"
I am not prepared to deny this, fOr
Shakespeare had pretty much everything
in his eTe that was CUBS ,queCt to bl,
writing, and this retroactive ken could
hardly fail to take in 80 conspicuous
fl yure as Msry's. There is no q thai
Shake ,pesre made only the matrix a
many Of his characters and lett posterity
to fill thsm. ~,
Mary's stride over the Parnsssian patti
has been rapid-and / need not say 10 you
that it makes q great deal of difference II
LAYING out the road whether you go by
the way of London or LouiIville. But
having arrived it may bs well to say o.
her. in correction OF the popular notion
that, with all respect to the prospective
eve of Shakespeare, she vas made for the
''Winter's Tale" and il was not made fol
Ter. should say she had ben melted
and poured into it, OILY never saw be-
melt.
There is one thing about Mary that il
peculi RI EI.don't know that you eve
noticed it. Mob ,dy, not even the ham
drum phrsse-sling r, ever chilled her a
Venus, aud nobody has interviewed her TO
frd out if marriage is a failure. She Is a'
unious in this resce2t as TINT minstrel
who, in dying, could cay that he never
uttered a word that was funny sbou'
Horscs Greeley.
remember, when she first started IN q
train as long rs enc Of Chsuucey D:pew's
how che fcowned and doubled up her hsti
and tried to look like AK, and the boy
refused 10 he shocked or hcrrifed AMI In
s;sted that it W sswest. remember how
her trumpet voice called down the corri
dora of tie Lady Of Lyons and eict
blast was worth q hundred men. How II
seemed to summon the b'aSe theatre-goeT'
''to arms, to arms!'
Bnt nobody ever thought CT her "a 9
Venus. You conduit get it into your head
then that she rose from this seattle tiuc'
! tuant and phosphoresctnt Sea. She seem
cd, on the contrary, 10 have come up sIo)'
from the Blue Grass country, bringing thu
smell of the wild gentisn with her-allow
irg thst the wild ~Rentian has any smell.
No. it was not Venus. am inclined Y
think il was alSaTs Minerva, sprung fnll
armed from the brain of Louisv lie. Hel
arms were like the copfluent Ohio and wa
hash. She strobe the "cou'se o. empire.'
Her handsome face wore the expression o
manifest destiny; The siouou4 bend aEt
fold of her figure reminded you of the ban
MIR Of stars in a Western breeze. her eye
nj times were the color of ths Mississippi
below Alton; at others there was a cold
blue CLINT in them like the sky- c1lOred lake
of MinneBot'.
That was the raw material Of Kentucky
II went abroad to be cut and polished an
set. NOW IL uh IJ"C JUN P'NPS's
mounted in Shakespeare.
From a s ,cial point Of view, / suppos
the week opens tie winters dramatic sea
son formally. Opera singers, II Is true
AID go far TIE Hors, Show has alor
brought ont the so;iety elements BY th'
way, what a superb socih Spectacle tia
equine exhibition presents. Has snybod,
seen more hand some women tlgetAer tina
he saw in ttO5s boxes on Friday and Sat
urisyP Meier wa the metropolis 80 gen
erously represented by its bellies ant
beaux. Most Of tie ladies were bat jus
in from Le1ox and Tuxedo ard NeWp IT
mo t of the men ware in the outer CIlor @
fsll. It was a fitting and elegant wind-u
Of The athletic plessu ei OF n clos d re isoD
Something OF this contingent o. beaut
will for the first time come out at the open
ing of Bcosh and Barrett and Of Mary An
derson.
Coquelin was n little early. The Gil
bert and Sullivan Opera g arcely drew tn
co7noiss eurs. and Ma kaye, VIII
comes with "Pa1l Kauvar," no longer ar
peals to them-hs has broadened an
chespened his attempt for the masses.
ought To cay bee thai the severes
criticism must continue 10 pay a Tribute I
two excellent plays that have charmed tn
to IN for a fortnight. One Of them
Held by the E1emy'-gave way wit
tie clcss If the week; the other
'Mr. Barnes, Of New York;
still running at the Broadway.
secord inrpsction Of this latte
drama leads me to modify some Of th
views l expressed on the first night. Mi
Emily Rigl has 7isibly improved in th