The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-10-06
STORIES OF PLAYERS.
An Amateur "Super's'' Rem
iniscenceS Of Sa1vini.
PLAYS AT NEARBY THEATRES,
Personal Notes of Men and Women
Who Amuse the Public. ~


Salvini, stronger than our own Booth
If a thought less subtle, is to appear at
Palmer's Theatre, New York, this week.
beginning on Thursday evening. On
that occasion and on Saturday and the
following Monday evenings he viii ap-
pear in 'sSamson," have had the pleas-
ure of standing beside thegreat tragedian
when he was dressed in the costume of
the Gladiator. The upper part of his
body was clothed only in a garment like
q sleeveless undershirts He ought to
maze good Samson SO far as muscular
development goes. He certainly possesses
every appearance Of, enormous strength,
speaking OF that reminds me more es-
peclally OF the occasions to which l have
alluded. was then IN Saiyini's Sup
port forone night only. l had gone in
with a number of other Young men to do
supers' duty for the sake of a closer OBJ
servation of the great actors methods
than could be gained in the auditorium
1t will be remembered that in the last
act Of The Gladiator the soldiers rush
in upon Safvini in prison and theatrically
kill him. The supeS were drilled that
night by. an attache of the theatre whom
will call Taylor. regret to state that
MI. Taylor was in d state Of enviable in
ebEity on that occasion. He himself was
to be captain of the guard He took his
tin battle axe in hand and waved it in d
misty and uncertain fashion calculated to
endanger his own head and those of the
bystanders. Then he said, "dc) Whoopl
every man Rum'n ciZenl" ,
The man who directly followed Taylor
was mild and melancholy theological
student from a neighboring institution Of
.glearningX He wore large glasses, and was
much shocked at himself for being there
In previous scene | had noticed him
sitting among the populace" in the
amphitheatre, and gazing sadly into the
arena through his goggles. He had a
venerable ex-coryphee on each side of
him, and their conversation was not of a
character to be mistaken for one Of the
lectures in divinity to which the young
man was accustomed to listen.
Well, this feeble youth followed Taylor
upon the stage when the attack upon the
imprisoned gladiator was made. Tay-
lor's condition would not permit him to
advance steadily, and as he skated away
to the right, the theolog. and his goggles
confronted the surprised tragedian. /
never saw such slaughter in q body of
stage soldiers as that which followed.
do not mind saying that / "wentto grass
in the first round. The theolog. stood on
his head, and the gladiators hand split
the back of his costume all to pieces, ex.
posing very modern homemade suit Of
underclothing. Then Taylor skated back,
w
the unfortunate raised his head and
mildly stared out between Taylor's legs
with the goggles still! on his nose
Salvini took one look at the tout ensem-
BILE and then died according to schedule.
The gallery was considerably amused
After the curtain had fallen the great
tragedlan came outside and SWOre. an
Italian hole through ten thicknesses of
wooden scenery. lneyer heard anything
at the same time so finished and so forci-
BILE. In the midst Of it he was called back
to the stage to answer the plaudits OF the
crowd, and the change in his whole aspect
Y was remarkable as he gracefully bowed
his thanks. So was the other change
when he came back and took up the
thread OF interrupted cussing just where
he had dropped it.
wanted to congratulate him on his
self command, but was little afraid
that that might strain it a point too far.
At the Academy of Music.
Frederick Warde will be seen in the
5, part of Belphegor, in D'Ennery's Noun
tehank, = tomorrow evening, at the AGA
denny. It is q highly emotional role, and
makes great demands upon the actor.
Mr.. Warde has met them to the satisfac-
tton of the critics. as the comments
of the press throughout the country have
shown. Miss Stella Rees who plays
the leading female roles with Mr.. Warde,
has also adifficult part in "The Mounte-
bank" The affection of wife sorely.
tried by circumstances is the emotion
which Miss Rees is called upon to display.
She has been very favorably noticed.
Good general support is promised and the
play is to be handsomely staged. 1t will
be seen on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday evenings and Saturday
matinee. Wednesday matinee Celia
Logan's play, castor Cadol.n will be
presented; Friday evening, ''Virginius;;"
Saturday evening, Richard III''
Jacobs HoboAen Theatre.