The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-31
THE EVENT OF THE SEASON
Miss Lillian Lewis In "Good-bye, Sweet
heart" Saturday January 9th.


Miss Lillian Lewis In "Good-bye, Sweet
heart" Saturday January 9th.
Miss Lillian Lewis has brought out
an idyllic romance and at the same
time pure genre picture play. 1t is
called GOOD bye, Sweetheart 1t
shows that there are placid possibilities
in drama, which unalloyed romanticism
play moves in an atmosphere that is
new, and fetches with gentle efficacy
some potent natural emotions INFO vie "
that lay hold OF the sensibility with a
tendril softness. The picture of the hero
inc OF Goodbye, Sweetheart" Gillian
Lewis) silently reaping the satisfaction
OF her unsefish and generous nature, is
exouisitely delicate and pretty, though
mute. She gives up the man she loves
to another woman, to the woman he
loves, She asks the Lords blessing for
the happiness of those two lives, and with
the magic words Goodbye, Sweet
heart" bids farewell to all that life on
earth can offer her. There is no osten.
tation, it has to be and that is all.
Tho simplicity of her conscience.
strong in the knowledge of right. makes
one feel that restful sense Of consum ma
after. She has done her duty; there is
to be no surprise, no assembling of
people; the little story has rounded
itself up according to the invincible
natlre of things. AS the curtain falls
one has the same feeling of com plete.
ness that one feels watching the sun
go down behind the western hills. This
last act of Goodbye, Sweetheart" may
well be called sun set act, as the one
ends the day as the other ends the
play in absolute calm and beautiful
repose Miss Lillian Lewis deserves
the earnest thanks Of every lover of the
theatre. She has brought out q play
which is truly dramatic gem. 1t is
like giving perfume to the violet to
write words Of commentator about
Lillian Lewis. The character of La
Tisba in Good bye, Sweetheart" fur
nishes her the fitting opportunity for
her special gift of voice, manner and
play OF features which have brough. her
permanent reputation as an artistic of
the first rank.
There is delicate stroke OF nature
in all her IL movements, and keen sug.
gesstion of subdued and irresistible
womanliness, even when she is silent,
in her remarkable bY-play and mobile
countenance. Her audience, to the
greater portion of which her art is
familiar, are always alertly responsive
in the quiet, continuous appreciation, il
not in noisy demonstration. 1t Is the
beauty of this quiet art and the gentle
loneliness of the woman which makes
Lillian Lewis the beloved Of her public.
About the wrong woman one may go on
saying ad infinitum, this woman is
supremely beautiful" and produce no
effect on the public, and yet the right
woman will prod uce the sensation with
out so much as word. Such is the
case with Lillian Lewis-when she
appears there is responsive snap in
every eye. 1t may be that genuine
loneliness is telephone and that ap-
probation otit is masonic-at all events
everybody has the password. Lillian
Lewis beauty would not answer to the
Niebelungen traditions-it is like her
art, too calm, too gentle for that.
Lillian Lewis beauty is of that type
which makes Christian feel that She
is woman with q white soul, which
makes Musselman feel that she is
fashioned for Mahomet's garden, and,
in despite of that, she is like tho superb
Grisi-she has corn and wine and oil in
her face-and TO see her in Good bye,
Sweetheart" does man or woman good.