The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-26
AMONG THE ACTORS.
3The Marble Heart" Produced
at Cordray's.
CLAY CLEMENT MAKES A HIT.
The Liliputians at the Opera House
This week-Listic Beings That Create
Intense Fun--News Paragraphed.
mHaHE Cordrny company has

produced play OF the
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A02H merit of ssThe Marble
- N4y8 Heart, and the Posr-lN-
NJ. l& TELLrGENcxR takes
~ tyY,A Y great satisfaction re-
~ @E4~ eoriIng the favorable
q tmprcssion create
AS \ thereby sThe Marble
&kAr Heart" in Itself is
8X strong composition. It's
= A. fine lines are permeated
N&AWW with noble and refined
sentiment, brilliant Wit and rcpartes, ana muen
logical and philosophical cynicism, and IN ue-
nial OF the charge thai such noble woFks arg
above the people, during the week there was no
fne sentiment. no deep phiie optical proposition
that was not readily caught up by the audience
and fully appreciated. The plot deals
with the ruin that may be wrought
by the wiles of beautiful and fascinating,
though heartless woman. story as
old A. that of sampson and the Philistine
wretch that betrayed the strong man to his enc
mics. In this instance, inatead of national
leader, the object practiced upon was simply
sculptor. but the misery and degradation
wrought is no less intense. Necessarily the GEN.
traI objects of the tragedy are the scuiptors
Raphael and the tilt Marco, though scarcely ,ess
in Importance is Voltage, the editor, who makes
society vince and squirm beneath sword-iike
ridieule and fearless satire. Clay Clement
perhaps better than any he has enacted during
his engagement with the Cordray company.
Through all the varying shades OF human feel
ing endured by the hero, he carried his audi
ence without apparent effort. First, the HAPPY
artist. flushed with professional triumph, ten
der 10 his mother, proud of the past and conn
dent of the future. Then the dawn of love. It's
development into absorbing passion. the abject
alteration, the neglect of duty in the mad pur-
suit OF a fleeting shadow, the agony OF spurned
affection, aud, finally, the broken heart. All
these were done with fine repression, yet sufh-
Client tragic intensity 10 have made the eharac-
ter stand out as q true stage picture, and
one Of which any actor might we'll be proud.
Miss Lane as Marco has most unattractive
part. ard yet she threw that care and intelli-
genee into its portrayal that made interesting
that which under no circumstances could be
made lovable. Many women are fiirts and CO.
Quettes, yet the condemns that sort of thing
and regards such acts with expressions of pious
horror Miss Lane made OF Marco hard, stern
wretch that toyed with human affection
statesmen do with human ambitions when they
stand in the way of success. Mr.. Berry has
never done anything better than his Voltage. the
editor. His conception os the requirements of
the character was fine, and but for something Of
IN awkwardncss OF movement would have
made his work more than noticeable. Mr.
Pnueo as the brainless fop, who always laughed
al his own imagined or rea, cleverness, did also
some splendid work The play was staged in a
manner in thorough keeping with the produc-
tion, and rich effects We're produced in the pos
ing of three statues There was no attraction
at the Seattle opera house during the week, but
beginning with tomorrow night aud continuing
for three more evenings, with Wednesday
matinee, Seattle viii have the privilege OF see
ing an aggregation of sctor-dwarfs that for
novelty surpasses anything that has come to
this city in quite long time.