San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-09

secret condemnation was most power
ful-that is the Venice that one see
In the play.
A usurpIng Doge's innocent daugh
ter, who sees and loves her fathers
enemy and weds him very much q,
Julietloved and welded theMontague
aud son of the real Doge, who sees
and loves and weds u lovely Cir
without dreaming that she lie the
child OF the power age inst which he IL
pl0tting-these are the central igures
in the play. The Chief Inquisitor,
vindictive. treacherous and merciless;
the jailer, who revels In his dreadful
duties, as the hangman does in Bar.
naby Ridge; Marco. staunch friend
and supporter of the hero, Paul de
Novsra, and Msrcella, friend of the
heroine, who has the sou brette ten
dency of most confidantes, are, with
Friar Christopher, who lie the Inquis.
itor's Nemesis, the other elements In
the working out of the plot.
The scenes and situations In which
they figure are not only dramatic in
themselves, but they are arranged
so a. to get the best dramatic effect
from the arrangement. A little more
clearn ess in the last explanation is
desirable, and there might be . plain
or setting forth of the position and
animus of the Chief Inquisitor. Friar
Angelo, but the tale IL told admira-
bly, In the main.
AS Mr.. Warde and his company
present 1t, tbs also told most attract
lively to the eye.
The costumes are rich, fit and har-
monious and the scenes are all pic
turesque In arrangement.
Mr.. Warde himself has very con-
genial rOle-one in which his fine
stage presence, his dignity of manner,
his unfailing earnestness OF purpose,
his admirable speech and his drama
tic force all tell. He made love to
Linora like q NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that
could coo her as gently as the soitest
summer zephyr upon occasion. He
was gentle to his friends, loyal to his
comrades. brave with his enemies and
generous to those who would have de-
stroyed him in exactly q way that an
audience likes best.
In "rns Mountebank," Mr..
Warde's great success, another sue
cessfui bid for theatrical favor is pre-
scented.
Its simple straightforward plot is
one which touches the whole gamut
of human emotion, and makes
heavy call on the sympathies of the
audience. Belphegor adores his wife
and children, and they would die for
him. His wife, when claimed by
noble relatives on condition that she
will give up her husband and one
child, Indignantly rejects the debas'
Ing offer; but when her best
loved child is dying and the
doctor tells her that care and
luxury alone can save it, the mothers
love proves the stronger than the
wife's affection, and she takes her
parents; but when Belphegor is ar
rested for an imposter and is offered
pardon If she will disOwn him, the
child is safe and the wifs's love again
asserts itself, and defying fate, she
claims him. Frederick Warde takes
us to the mountebank's home and
shows us his own life. He shows us
the coarse clown, refiued and made
gentle by love for mis- wife and
family, ministeriDg to them
with touching tenderness, his
life only clouded by the regret
that be can not do better for them
than the humble fare his strolling life
affords. When he sits by the table
preparing the morning meal, because
he does not wish his wife disturbed
too soon, Warde puts SO much manly
psthos In his kind solicitude into
his part that we doubt IL there was a
wife in the house who did not wish
she could have Belphegor for a bus
band, sick child, poverty and all
Ana so 1t came that Madelain.
when she deserted this mode
husband even to save her child:
lite, t1id not meet with much sympa
thy. So we'll does Warde act tina
cheers and applause do not suffice
but the audience must needs have
him before the curtain. In the latte
acts, where the mountebauk has some
thing to say to his prosecutors, Ward,
rises to q heig ut of tragic dignity tina
few actors could reach, and his bust
ness in the earlier scenes is ripe ant
clearly cut as his pathos and tragi
anger in the later ones. The piece i
nicely staged and mounted.
| On the 10th and 18th comes the oil
time favorites, Grismsr. D ,vies, tn,
Pacific coast stars, who hav
scored former triumphs in San Anto
MO. This season they present tn
great drama THE Burglar" with
strong company, all of whom are rate
as first class artists.