Telegram-herald., 1891-06-14

&c we would give il souvenir night,
and In answer - loud and pressing
call on the part Of the public Ne woald
substitute ~tAncn0.l with Magic
Mitchell ia the tltl1 role.
Hamlet = a sort Of Scandinavian or
DANISH PLAY Shakespeare takes the
titss role. bas hs L.eks !. good deal II
taking the cake Most II the audience
were worried al the evening. aud sey-
eral even inquired 81 the star openly
what was eating him
Shakespeare sad aftsrWari that he
thought the play was boo subtle for cur
people. Also that hs eoald have plsysd
better II he had had something 10 eat
during the day. Shakespeare II essen
TALLY a tank actor. aHd y hen he tries 10
elevate the stage he should do II o. me-
chanlcal means. We could not help
feeling sorry fur Dick Barbsse. who
played OpheliA, last evening. HIS wills
kers cast gloom over the character.
aud when hs stepped on his dress and
tore cat all the gathers ia tho front
bresdths he would have been indeed
tough who could have sat there and
laughed and cracked hickory nuts. Is
some near Us done last night.
The day may come when the stage will
be elevated. bat II Bil Shakespeare is
going 10 do IL he Will have 10 get more II
move on him than he had last night, he
can safely bet has sweet life. As il Is
now. an actor is regarded here as "a sort
Of leper IN grease paint, and We look 10
somebody with more intellectual pap
and high purposes than this canvas COW
cred Hamlet from the interior 10 jerk
the profession out of the sinkholo to
which IL has sunk.
Shakespeare knows as well as anybody
this sad condition Of things, for last
evening after the alleged play. and while
washing off his makeup at the horse
trough back of the Globe theater. he
was approached by young schoolmis-
treSs from Whitechapel road. who had
a plush album, and after driving his
hands on her apron with profuse apollo
gies wrote as follows:
o for my sake DO you with Fortune chide.
The guilty goddess Of my harmful deeds,
Than public means. which public manners
breeds.
Thence comes IL that my name receives Q
brand.
And almost thence my nature Is subdued
To what IL works in like the dyer's hand.
You are welcome to the verse. he
said. as he gave her back the album and
photographic pen, but if there be yet
anything in your dinner pail. cen though
it be but despised Bacon rind. would
take it most kindly, fair one. if might
sock my snoot beneath the lid and fiud,
mayhap. besides. the pelt of forgotten
prune" With that he did straightway
clean out the dinner bucket of the
wench, as he had tasted all the way
from Albuquerque, where he last played.
Hamlet, it would appear is a prince
whose father dies in such a manner as to
create talk, and sort of Staten Island
inquest fails to throw any light on the
subject, though Hamlet has his sus-
picions that his uncle and his mother
together have put up q job on the old
man. This works gu Hamlet So mnch
that some think he is little warped
mentally, and in order to do q little de-
tective work he permits people to
think so.
His father finally returns in the form
of ghost and describes the whole thing
to Hamlet. Last evening the Ghost was
played by an unknown party who has
formerly played the Croak of Concealed