The record-union., 1892-12-03
AMUSEMENTS

ADJUSTMENTS
Despite the heavy rainstorm of last
night good-sized audience and most
intelligent and critical one welcomed
Miss Julia Marlowe at the METROPOLITAN
Theater. Yet even the heavy rainfall
should not have prevented the house
being filled. Had it been a minstrel per-
iormance probably the auditorium would
have been crowded. Has the taste for
the plays OF the immortal bard declined?
w g are not willing to think so; we attrib-
ute the limited attendance last light
rather to the fact that it was q Shake
spearean comedy that was played, and
not play stirring deeply the emotions or
rugged with the tragic. But there is high
art demanded in presenting Shake
speare's comedies. That Miss Marlowe.
who is so young, should have SO grasped
the idea of Shakespeare women
stands to her great credit. Beatrice
IN Much Ado About Nothing" is not a
character calculated to develop dramatic
powers Of a strong order; it calls rather
Tor the exhibition of womanly coquetry
and the exercise of womanly wit. There
IS nothing for physical or mental vigor i'll
IL, save The single flash OF rage, under the
wrong done Hero, that prompts Beatrice
TO demand that Benedick shall kill
Claudia, . Kill him dead" Even in that
passage her rage is tempered by the
humor she enjoys in having inspired the
woman -hater to heroic action tor the sake
OF love. But Miss Marlowe, while seen
III Beatrice only III laughing mood light
and bath'ng humOr, and the play Of wit
proved that She knows and feels the ele-
mental emotions of human nature, and
that she has studied the ideal in that di-
rection as diligently as the deeply emo
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she so finely illustrates in her PERSONA
tlon OF Juliet. She proved even
III so light vein as the part of
Beatrice moves upon that she can
express these emotions as they are
involved in combinations of dramatic
form, with a perfectly clear purpose,
with confident sense of trueness to the
thought of the dramatist, and with ade-
quate ability, taste and effect 1t is these
capacities that make great actors. Miss
AlarloWe is not now great, but she is of
the timber from which foremost artists
are built. She proved by her delightful
personation of Beatrice that she has the
ability for wide scope of conquest. Her
grace, cOmelineSs, perfect repoSe, COM
plete sinking of self In the part-her
naturalness, in short, proved that she is
a consummate actress, and is to be a
greater one. She lived the part of
Beatrice; she made others live it-by
sympathy; she took her auditors into
the realm OF Imagination by her genius
and they forgot that it was Miss Mar
lowe, the young ShalIespearean student,
before them, but saw only Beatrice, the
creature Of Shakespeare's fancy and wit.
1t was vital type. OF human
nature, a realization Of a pure,
loving, human being, who was cased
in an assumption of armor sup
posed to be proof against the urdi-
nary assaults of love, but which, despite
brave resistance on the part Of its
wearer, was as vulnerable as Of old. She
has a fine intelligence OF countenance
rather than beauty, but which is better
than beauty; she has an earneStness of
purpose that lights up her face with a
radiance that Is beautiful; but this pur-
pose never becomes et1ortful in manifesto
tion, because she is natural. She awakens
sympathy because she reads and acts as
if she felt all she said. This she did so
artfully last night that faults patent to
the cold eye or criticism were lost in ad-
miration for her art. She has, we think,
all the promise in her that her host Of ad-
mirers at the Last have preached of.
Whole lines of great artists could be
named, who at her age were not nearly
so far advanced. Her success last night
was unmistakable, and won hearty ap-
plause that ceased only on her reappear-
ance. Tonight as Rosalind she will as
certainly achieve another in Shake es-
peare's idyl, las You Like It." Her
company is a good one as a whole. 1t
has fewer weak timbers and more sound
ones than most troupes playing Shak es-
peare. Mr.. Taber'S Benedick was more
than clever; it was manly. effective and
not overdone part. We have seen more
more pretentious Benedicks who COM
mitted the error of making the woman
hater button. Mr.. Tabor at no time per-
mitted him to step out of the part of the
gentleman. Perhaps the best rendered
character OF support was ,the Dogberry of
Giles Shine. 1t was thoroughly artistic
performance and won a well deserved
call for the actor. In the success Of the
part, Mr.. Lawrence fairly shared as old
erges, the foil of the doughty and volu-
BILE Constable. Tonight, LAS You Like
It." The curtain will go up at O'Clock,
and from this time forward, says Mana
ger Todd, IS will be the rule" The S:I5
and $50 curtain is a very modern prac-
uce that has been established by some
top-lOtical establishments, whose patrons
are supposed to despise reasonable hours.
We trust that the local management VIII
adhere to the S o'clock rule, and likewise
hold late comers in. the lobby until an act
is over People who come TO see and hear
have rights the dilatOry ought TO be made
to respect.
This afternoon, at , o'clock. the ladies
of the Unitarian Society viii hold a doll
and cake sale at Pythian Hall. There
will be dressed dolls and homemade
cake to be disposed Of
The party in aid of the new church at
Freeport has been postponed in conse-
quence of the bad weather.
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