St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-29
"LpARTICLE ar
Misses Morris and Lewis Each
Take a Turn at 1t.


" At the Newmarket last night one of
the most brilliant audiences of the sea-
son witnessed the performance of Clara
Morris and her excellent company in
Belots famous play, "L'Article 47.n
/ Special mention may be made of Messrs.
sDe Belleville. ConviIle, Charges and
\ Broderick, and the ladies. Mrs. Farren,
4 Miss Mittens Willett and Miss Massic
ARTICLE II" teaches with stern Sc
Rquence the punishment which follows
sin, showing the inevitable, bitter,
/ blighting effects of wrong-doing, even
/ to those who flee from it finally for sal
1 walton: and to the innocent, of course,
4 who always suffer with the guilty, its
/ revelation is repulSive. Cora, who is
/ sin incarnate, charms like Gree, to the
/ last moment, when punishment drags
I her to living death, leaving her, like
4 Iuclfer, never to hope again.
/ No more horribly Fascinating portrait
/ ure than Clara Morris Cora can be
/ imagined. When she is Off the stage,
/ the play drags: when she is present, the
: play is forgotten. AS the Creole, her
[ eeGuetry had that spice of wickedness,
that edge of willful badness, which re-
/ pels only to attract the more. As the
SCARED and scarlet woman whose pur-
poses are evil only. her one joy the hope
of revenge, she was revelation
of evil incarnate. In the third
act she was the tigress, in
/ the fourth the pythoness. When she
had brought the object of her hatred to
bay, and crouched before him with the
angry scream, 81 have you now and
you shall not escape me-" she could be
compared only with the tigress leaping
Oh her prey. When the madness begins
to becloud her brain, and she sits with
liked and lowering conntenance, up
turned eyes, as if looking in upon tine
soul, and the head swaying from side
to side, she was the pythoness pois-
ing for spring. The Jewels
glittering in her black hair, the
sinuous folds of fluffy white that
wound round her neck and waist, to he
continued in the long, trailing drapery
OF her crimson dress. her swift, gliding
movements, the light of madness which
never left her eyes-it was a picture of
. the dellrIous, sultry, sensuous Orient;
the jungle of horrible dreams and terri
bic deeds. where the serpent of evil be-
guiles to destruction. Tonight will be
given the last performance, "Renee de
Moray"
AT THE HARRIS.
MISS Lillian Lewis, who appeared at
the Harris, gives performance of the
loFe-torn and revenge-Seeking Cora
|, which places her on very high plane
as an artist. She makes love
the motive, hate and revenge
the result and madness the
Inevitable fatality of the part. Her con-
ception is logical. but her carrying of it
into effect is simnly exquisite The
greatest charm of her performance is
/. the intense period of silence and pam
toni nee which she introduc eS into the
past. She makes the effect of the sus-
pense terrific with silence. The approach
of madness Miss Lewis depicts
in really charming manner. One can
fairly see the conflict between sanity
and madness, and when the latter
finally conquers and Cora becomes hope
lessly insane, it is a not only touching
but heart-rending sight. The COM
%pany appeared to excellent advantage.
Z Whitaker, st. Clair, Peronel--all were
good. Miss Selden, as Marcelle. was
/! also very good. "L'Article Az will be
repeated Thursday night. Tonight
Knights of Pythias benefit. the bill being
I LAS in Lyoking Glass;