The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-11-03
IT is IRTING'S TRIUMPH.
His Wonderful Revival of
an Old Me1Odrama.'
GOSSIP ABOUT THE PLAYERS
Programmes at the Local
Theatres for the
Coming Week.


According to all accounts Henry
Irving's revival of Watts Phillips ia
nous old play, The Dead Heart" must
be marvel The time of the drama is
the period of the French Revolution.
Robert Landry, the principal character,
is man whose experience is similar to
that of Dr. Manette in Dickens master
piece. He has been imprisoned when
young man in the Bastiie for writing
epigrams against the nobility. Recalled
to life." He has been behind stone walls
for eighteen years, when the fall of ''the
fortress of the eight strong towers" iser-
ates him.
In his portrayal of this character Irving
wins one of his greatest successes. With
that remarkable attention to detail for
which he is SO famous, he shows with
wonderful skill the return of the prisoner
to that self-command of which long in
generation had almost deprived him.
In the exhibition of astonishment, not
quite free from fear, in the slow return OF
light to the eye and reason to the brain,
in the gradual resuscitation of intellectu-
al being, the sublety of Mr.. Irving's act
ing is seen at it's best. Altogether mas
terly in the elaboration of its develop
ment is this new birth of soul. The
spectator. as he watches. stands awed and
appalled,.
The physical actions correspond to the
mental exposition; the hands feel be-
wilderedly at the freed kmbs, and there
| is a startled cry when the long worn fet-
tiers clank on the ground. Then comes
the period which the man without heart,
| the fires in which are judicial, and reveal
no perceptible depth of hate or other
| emotion. The marvellous duel with the
| Able Latour-the finest stage fight ever
| scents visible representation of the
| struggle of crime against retribution.
| Relentless and resolute as Fate, iron, i'm
| placable, concentrated, calm, Landry
| follows his victim, who, though not want
ing in courage, feels a cold shuddering
| dew in presence of death SO memorable
as dogs and dismays him.
| Meanwhile, good as is the performance,
| the mounting and spectacle are even
more impressive. Except for the absence
of dirt, everything that can be fancied in
respect of the siege of the Bastille is
given. The whole thrills with actually,
| and is the most marvellous stage crowd a
London audience has ever seen.
1t is in this realism that Irving renders
his greatest service to the stage. He
teaches a lesson that is only half learned.
Stage pictures have a possibility of adj
vancement which will take them as far
beyond the present achievement as we now
surpass the old time satire of the Pyramus
and Phisbe scene, where the tailor. zone
Shout by name, presents wall, and
let's "the fearful lovers" whisper through
his fingers.
A Week of Light Opera.
The week beginning tomorrow will be
devoted to comic opera in the Academy
of Music, Jersey City. The great Casino
successes, .'Nadjy" and 'Erminie," will
! be the bills of fare. No two greater sue
cesses were ever offered to the New York
! public, and the known interest Jersey
| City takes in musical matters leads to the
| belief that these two old fayorites when
| presented with first-class company, an
unusually strong chorus, a full orchestra
and new scenery properties and ward
| robe, will receive that attention they de-
serve. Some of the people in the cast are
well known in Jersey City. ''Nadjy'
win be given in the early portion Of the
week, and the favorite "Erminie'' willfill
up the latter portion of it.
Hoboken Theatre.
The two performances, matinee and
night, today Sunday will be the last of
one of the best productions of the present
season at Jacobs Hoboken Theatre. Ed
win Arden in his beautiful drama
Barred Out" has proved that the poetic
element of the drama can be surrounded
| by strong situations, and be made more
| powerful and stirring, and with strong
| company proves drawing attraction of
| considerable merit. Commencing Mon
| day, for three nights, Hardie and Won
border drama of much merit, and sure of
filling the house at every appearance.
| Theatrical Notes.
A "voice builder named Hayden Tilla
has been training Miss Bertha Fay's vo-
cal organs, and with the exuberance of q
| foreigner he gets her to announce that
| her voice is so much improved that she
| ''does not recognize it herself" Mr., Tilla
| must have been training the voice of con-
science for ex-senator Griggs.
To judge by the number of march COM
positions received at the Casino daily one
would suppose that American composers
were devoting all their attention to that
class of work All seem DESTROYS of hay
ing their compositions performed, for the
evolutions, in the third act of 1.-The Drum
Major" Mr.. Rudolph Aronson has de-
cided to make careful examination of
the large number already submitted, and
the most appropriate one will have its
first hearing tomorrow evening at the
fiftieth performance of the operetta
Cora Tanner, in her charming play
Fascination, Is doing phenomenal
business all over the country. She made
big success here last season, and when
she returns she is sure to repeat her tri-
umph. She will be at the Academy, Jer-
sey City, in few weeks.
Phyllis Broughton, the London bur-
lesqne actress, who brought an action
against Lord Dagnan for breach of
prnrnisa has sattlad her difficulty with
the noble Lord by accepting his check for
e., 500.
The life-size, full-length portrait of
Colonel William f. Cody, Buffalo Bill"
painted by Rosa Bonheur, is on view at
the "Wild West Camp" Paris, where it
will remain until shipped home to orna-
m ent the Capitol at Washington.
The experiment of an interchangeable
vaudeville at two Philadelphia threatres-
the Chestnut and South Broad-proved
success last Monday night. Hermann's
Transatlantiques We're the attraction.
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