St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-28

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THE THEATERS.
CLARA MORRIS AS CAMILLE.
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CLARA NORRIS AS CAMILLE.
Clara Morris opened her engagement
at the Newmarket last night to one of
the largest aud most fashionable audi
enceS OF the season. The builders con-
Vention was well represented by men,
bers from New York. Chicago and Kan
sas City. Miss Morris deserves special
praise for the able support she has this
season. AS Camille she is a great
artist. Everything is made to bend
to her wonderful insight into human
nature. Her own temporary physical
infirmity was made last night to add to,
instead of deIract from. her imperSona-
ton of the apotheoSis of vice. She
cloaked her sense of sin and degraua-
ton. she loved, she sacrificed more than
she had right to and she died as Ca
mile. Clara Morris never raved--peo-
pie never do. save when in-
sane; she lived, loved and died.
and no more can be said.
Mr.. De Belleville was for his part
what Miss Morris was for hers. There
can be no Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear or
Richelieu Incorporated in a drama of
to-day. The range of emotions, to a
slight extent, and of their expression
altogether, has been contracted. Men
live. love, hate and die nowadays be-
hind an iron mask of cOnventiOnality
which is never removed. This has not
yet become the case with women, al
though the tendency is IN that direc-
ton: hence great actors find their ideal
characters in the past, while actresses
can present a character of to-day and
make it heroic. People begin TO
grin when they see the hero go on to
his knees before his inamorata; they
laugh when he kisses the hem OF her
robe. For this reason men are tame
compared with women i'll presenting
modern characters, and Mr.. De Belle
vile must suffer accordingly. In the
third and fourth acts of the play.
when he learns of Camille'S de-
Sertion, and when he denOunceS
her before her friends his art
ing is powerful in the extreme.
The parts were universally well taken,
but Mrs. Fare I, as Prudence. and Dir.
COvenney, as CASTOR, deserve especial
mention. Mrs, Farrer was famous
twenty years ago. though she was then
past her prime. and were the loads of
years stricken from her shoulders this
lady would teach most of our modern
STARS what sacting is. Tonight IL Ar
ticle A." and the closing night will be
"Renee de Moray" Miss Morris Will
certainly play fine engagement, judy
ing from the highly appreciative audi
ence attending last night.
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LILLIAN LEWIS AS LENA DESPARD.
The Harris theater was packed last
evening from the orchestra rails to the
gallery. Lillian Lewis was there, the
public heard about t and were on hand
to welcome the favorlte actress in
emotional parts back to her old
home. LAS in a Looking Glass" is
q play marVelOuSly adapted to Miss
Lewis. ana as Lena pespard, she was at
her best. She was as truthful in her
picturing OF the varied emotions the
part calls for, now soft of speech
and womanIy, again fierce with
an awful terOcity born of deS-
peratiOn. The climax of the third act,
in which FOrtinbras betreys her to
the man she loves, is the strongest
the piece presents, and Miss
Lewis takes full advantage of the OPP
portunity offered for effective work.
w. S. St. Clair, as Capt. Jack
FOrtinbras was a living eXemplifcatl0n
of the greatest villain unhung. In the
climax of the third act, when the Des-
pard in her desperation and lOathing
strikes him across the face with her
hand, the cOntOrtiOns of his comnteuance
as indicative of suppressed rage
were marvel and won for him
the plduulIS Oh the duulence. MISS
Fanny Gilbert as Lady Gage did some
very clever work, and is entitled to
praise for making the most of the part.
In the nnal act, the death scene
in Balfour castle. Miss Lewis
does some very fine acting, and
awakeS in the minds of her audience a
recollection of the Lillian Lewis they
have known in the past. The play is
strong one, and that the presentation
was pleasing one was evidenced by
the upstlnted applause which followed
each act Miss Hazel Selden, as Lady
Balfour, made the most of part de
void of opportunity for brilianey. Miss
Lewis Wiltappear in special matinee
this afternoon as Cora, the CreOle,' in
s'L'Article A." The play is especially
suited to her style of acting and will
doubtless draw large audience.
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NOTES.
Miss Lillian Lewis will give special
matinee performance of ARTICLE Az at
the Harris this afternoon, appearing as
Cora, the Creole Miss Clara Morris has
been invited to occupy box, and will
be present to see what her rival can do.
Miss Lewis has won much of her fame
in the part, and will not diSappoint her
friends. The advance sale has been
very large.
The sale of seats for THE Suspect"
will open at the Newmarket to-day.
MEN w r, MEET.
Hon. Gorham Powers, of Granite
Falls, is in the city, and proposes TO re-
main here until the governor fills the