The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-26
THEDRAMA AND MUSIC
Successful Engagement of Miss
Clara Morris.
THOMAS ". keENE THIS WEEK
The Famous ndeIashon Quintette Club
to Follow the Great Tragedian-
Amusement Notes.

to Follow the Great Tragedian-
Amusement Notes.
The Seattle opera-house. otherwise yclept
Turner hall, has had every one of its fold
ing opera chAirs, and the hard board
benches up stairs and down filled on six
nights of last week, and indications point
to crowded houses this week during the
three nights engagement of Thomas W..
keene, the eminent tragedian. and the two
nights Of the Mendelsshon Quintette Club.
The event of the past week was. Of
course, the engagement OF Miss Clara Nor
ris, and, it being this distinguished
artiste's first appearance in Seattle, it was
very natural that large audiences should
be in readiness to receive her, yet. not
withstanding the fact that her fame and
genius had been heralded over the world.
1t must have been source of delight to
her to receive the ovations she was ten
dered. Miss Morris possesses an element
OF success that few people can ever attain.
She unites art and heart. In her both are
blended, and where one controls the
other assists. Greatness is not .
word great enough to describe Clara Nor
ris. She is matchless. indescribably grand.
Possessed of the grace of the late Matilda
Heron, and the fire and soul of Bern
hardt, she has other feelings of grandeur
that either of those named or both could
never attain. She absorbs herself in her
work. 1t was Camille. not Clara Morris.
that suffered and sighed and raved and
died. She is as completely lost to her own
personality on the stage as ii nature for the
time being had deprived her of reason.
Hence her power. She is so natural and
easy in the portrayal Of character that it Is
almost impossible to believe that she is .
mere artistic. The lowering Of the curtain
only reminds people that they are In .
theater, and that they are weeping for arti-
fetal woe. But is Clara Morris woe arti-
fetal? Surely not. Her tears are as gem
uine as ever crept from the fountain of Q
saddened heart. She is away beyond criti-
cism, and the critics of the future will have
to adopt her as q standard. Her manner,
her actions are simply the exquisitiveness
of perfection, and il is only to be regretted
that her art and heart can not live forever.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings of next week will be inaugurated
three nights season OF tragedy by the
eminent traeedian, Thomas w. Keene.
Eleven years service constantly engaged
in portraying the leading characters in the
Shakespearean drama certainly gives Mr..
Keene strong claim to popularity and
consideration. and wide recognition by the
most eminent American critics secures for
him place in the dramatic history of this
country among the most illustrious of our
tragic actors 1t is years since he made
his debut as tragic actor, in Richard
Ill" He. from the night Of his debut,
has verified the most sanguine prophecies
made by his admirers. He secured public
favor at once He has done SO by hard
work and patient study. He has over
come the natural opposition to all new
opponents of classic roles, and the adj
mirers Of his originality and vigor have
swelled from hundreds into the thousands
in every city in this country. Mr.. Keene's
opening performance in Seattle on Monday
viii be Richard I'LL" part in which he
has no living equal. to be followed by
'sRichelieu, Louis XXI" and Merchant
of Venice" at Wednesday matinee. Seats
are now on sale at Stewart & Holmes
drug store.
Following Keene, on Thursday and FRI
Quintette Club Concert Company, of Bos-
ton. Thomas Ryan, director. This COM
pany was organized in 1849 and is famous
the world over. 1t is now composed OF Mr..
Isidor Schnitzler, violin virtuoso and con-
cert master; Mr.. Samuel w. Jennison, vio-
lin; Mr.. Thomas Ryan. solo clarinette and
viola; Mr.. Paul Henneberg, solo flute and
viola; Mr.. Paul Jennison. solo violoncel-
list; and Miss Marie Barnard, prima
donna.
This season will be considered one In
which the club has been brought up to
high-water mark, in point of artistic abil-
ity by the changes in the personnel-frst
by the acquisition Of Mr.. Isidor Schnitzler
as solo violin, and the brothers Jennison.
The latter, two SAMPLES OF genuine musi-
cians-native American, who can be
matched to their advantage with any two
artists OF the same age who ever came from
Europe. Mr.. Henneberg il retained.
The prima donna. Miss Marie Barnard,
is California girl who has received all her
training in her home in San Francisco.
chiefly from Mr.. and Mrs. Rosewald. Miss
Barnard is highly cultivated lady, with q
beautiful voice, skillfully trained. She viii
make q genuine furore wherever heard.
Mr.. Isidor Schnitzer, violin virtuoso and
concert master, il q native of Rotterdam,
Holland, and began his solo performances
on the violin in public at the early age of
years. He was SO great a student and
displayed so marked an ability for his
chosen profession that at the age of IA he
attracted the attention of the King of Hol-
land. and his majesty assumed the entire
expense of his tuition in Brussels, under
the famous Wieniawsky, and afterwards at
the Royal school for music at Berlin, from
which he graduated with high honors, tray
cling over Europe as vielin virtuoso In
1881 he came to America to be leader of the
Mendelssohn Quintette Club.
Mr.. Samuel Wellington Jennison was
born at st. Paul. Mimi, of the well Unknown
musical family of General S. p Jennison,
of Red Wing. His early unmistakahle in
clination for music was wisely fostered by
his parents, and he had the best tuition
possible.
There is probably no musician in Amer
lea so familiar to concert audiences all
through the length and breadth OF the land
as Mr.. Thomas Ryan, the viola and clari-
nette rlayer of the club. During the entire
period of the life of this organization, now
forty-one years, he has retained his con-
nection with it and has labored for it,
well-earned reputation.
Mr.. Paul Hennebsrg solo flute and viola,
was born in 1868. in Bohersberg, Germany,
of musical parents. He began studying