The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-02-26
ABSOLUTELY PURE

more completely to enjoy what is q fease efthe
eyes and senses.
The immense auditorium OF London's nness
theatre is nightly filed with o packed snn
hushed audience. Some. no doubt. nave coms
TO censuro and cavil; they expect to be bored.
but none coafess TO having been 20. when tney
leave the house. Even during the rehsarsais
some Of the performers were heard to condemn
the play as deadly dull" and legitimate
anxiety was felt In the company IS to the nia-
mate verdict OF the FIRST night. That verdict
. completely favorable ono. was unhesitsdae-
IL given By n unanimous press and as unnesis
tatingly confirmed By the general public.
Most people. however. hnd IL necessary 20
seek an explanation Of this Extraordinary Ap-
probation bestowed upon . performance 70
utterly unlike any witnessed within . lone
cycls Of past years. "Claudian-" - given oy
Wilson Barrett ct ths Princsss's. being psrhAps
the only instance OF . drama, the scene OF
which II laid in . remote antiquity. havinS
anything like . run .-rs,5
Some people seem to md . cause for "Hyps-
tiA's" success In the circumstance that IT came
at the exact psychological moment when the
faded instincts OF the London public revoltsd
against o surfoit Of risQu6 songs without wiz
Of posturing dancers without art. OF frivolous
music without genius. OF cheap oorroweo
cynioism. OF emasculated adaptatious ron tue
French without literature. and Of so-oaiisd so7
oiety plays which were = libel on socistH
whether thsy portrayed It o. senselessly im-
moral or hopelsssly commonplace. Nts regrets
fully conceded that the old honest. briGhtolevsr
comedy Of character has ceased to sxisSs
that extravaeance or poverty Of pioe ma
long been the . Of the playwrlenss
and that safety has reached almost the
point Of nausea. Therefore 4 " ~ e g
PsiSns sovs M,ss around sTs,p sSsp. aSoS,fSHis and .isSS:
cisl personages. let. the nnreality pc at iSnss
q R,s ~ s,s ssd sG sassiisin enS Sis s6s,st isa sRS..:Ttsss
srtist, By spreading before us pictures St sn.
S5:nt q Ron. , GG olG Ss EgysI ;b ss1 " si ~. SS.nasAb sis
to detect and reproaeh him with small moon.
sisteneIes Or snarch.o55tsTs q e. ~ We haIs ma nS
ccoa@plicsaSns Il sysry:aay, M; e vhlch .o Ms
The thoughtful. and the artistic to escape. i.
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t m.s.s ssss W i e ainat tss : d nDss son ss sapsr (.
i:aq1inaE az %O II siI 5ss . Tsry p=s Ss@SasRss. q Fl b ssSsS
Gus than the ondifSts q more recent dsts De- %;
Hspats and her lover g not the lhistorioall
the stone-Rirt auditorium, in which the
bSnyt We have before our Dyes tho splendid Pile
ofths cathedral in which Themes 4 Beekss
dead Laureate emphetically declared that his
play. was not intended for representation
That he Eas made to reconsider nat opinions
according. 70 the sxigsneies OF the modern
&tage. indicates the ,en2rmons p1rsnoe snat
taining "a his craft. 90. innusnce 20 potent
that he could successfully sxerctse It With ths
greatest poet OF the VtqtorAn ere: mo y
the idol Of the British pqblic. The pot HooSHfI
there IL NO audacity which he cannot attemD(
and carry through t~riumphantly. ID. DE b