Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-21

! L nc I IINd' u otCFeiiLl,F WIS UlaQc kn0Wr
| at Greenwall'S last night. and q constan
| roar of laughter echoed through the build
| ing from the rise Of the curtain until its
| TALL. The star. of course, is Edwin
| Iravers Us Douglas Cattermole, and il. SIP
| ported by strong company. 4
| MIR. TraverS presents good intsrpraA
ton of the role though the manusrisIE Of
| his Capt. RedmOn, the detectivE in SsTn the
| Penman, still cling TO him. HEsfdFer IN.
| consciousness of the absurd situations and
| the fun they cause the audience renders his
art all the more noticeable
The Rev. Robert Spaulding of William
| Fairbanks, is remarkably pleasing, many OF
| his actions ana his business reminding one
| strongly of Gillette when he created the
role He divided the honors of the evening
| with Mr. Travers
H. Rees Davies, as Mr. Cattermole. a
rich East Indian. with troublesome liver.
handled his part very cleverly, though q
little inclined to over do things at times. The
Harry Marsland of Harry Brinsley and the
Mr.. Gibson of E. j. Mack, We're well car
ricd.
The Edith of Miss Violet Black was
| rather disappointment, there being too
much afectation and not enough natural
ness in her Interpretation. She read her
lines well, though at times rather too rap
idly
The Eva of Miss Charlotte Nelson was
too ''girlishly girly,' and she manifests too
much inclination to play at the audience.
Her part was overdone in sinperiug ges-
lures and underdone in everything else.
She evidently has little conception of the
character contemplated by the author.
The Miss Ashford of Bertha Livingston
was. on the whole, an acceptable piece of
work, though weak at times, especially in
the dialogue, delivering some sentences in i
Stilted manner.
OF the comedy itself but little can be
said, other than, like all of Gillette's come
cieS, it affords abundant opportunities
for clever work by comedians.
Like wine it improves with age and be-
comes more appreciated the oftener it is
seen. 1t is 4 tangle of absurd situations
from which all are finally extricated in the
proper form.
MACLEAN-PRFscoIT- opera
house will be open for special Thursday
matinee, 4 which r. d. MacL can and Marie
Prescott will appear in Spartacus with new
and elegant scenery, handsome costumes,
etc. Matinee Romeo and Juliet will fill the
bill. The Philadelphia Inquirer says: Mr.
MacLean is an actor of the most robust and
manly pattern, OF commanding physique
and natural grace. His voice is powerful,
deep-tOned. resonant and musical, and cap
able of every meditation and infection with
which to add strength to the romantic i'm
personation. In voice and bearing he has
every natural fundamental qualification for
a tragedian, and his attainments show such
cultivation of the powers in his command
as to leave 20 doubt about his possession
of dramatic talent of the highest order
LEWIS MORRISON
will be seen at Greenwali's on Friday and
Saturday evenings only. October % and 24
Mr.. Morrison comes 10 Fort Worth with
the entire production of Faust" The
Denver Sun says: MIR. Morrison. IN his
production of Faust has won where 9TH
ers failed. He is to-day the only actor in
America playing Goethe's greatest con-
ception.s There are two reasons for this
success. One is that in the Bayle Bernard
dramatization of the famous poem, which
Mr. Morrison, like Mr.. Irving follows he
has popular, even if not altogether cor
rect, version. The second and principal
reason for success is Mr.. Morrisons fin
ished portrayal of Mephistopheles. The
character of Mephistopbees is distinctly a
humorous one as conceived by Goethe, and
in this particular in the Bernard yer. on we
have 4 close alliance to the masters
original.