Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-11-10

b. u the same opini s'ill,"aud there.
fore 10 be not To 60 expected that the
production OF "Nt ulu0n B1napafitii
Rt tho Herald Square and Harlem
% era House by SIR. Mansfield viii
maze much change la MI. Llflmo
~ diati's generous estimate Of DO.
osn s1lr.
But tue public has now quite made
lta mind up with fcgarI g. "NaI0Ir. n
h1napur'e," anu, having trrn thu
piece presented twice, share the
general view.
What Mr.. si1dihrl took 10 be riay
that b., ar acting piny--ls not play
10 nli, uut a mere lve-act tketch, or
piece, or outortHipmpuf, devoid OF
backbone, plot, ntcl plan, dramatic
iatrost.
Aud, wono than all, 1t isparticularIy
tedious.
tne Tact may be deplofed, but Il can
not bs wondrr u NJ. Experience shows
tnai there are three, tuu only three,
Ways of uUahns dramatically with b
tngmr iikr SIR. StoI4af.'s.
Nuu may treat 10 as pfetext for
spectacular effects, and make OF u h
Iauor mic Peg .ani, ike tue Napoleon
90 "a. hafun Laya, produced vita tucb
iumtusu success last season at thu
Porte 81. Merlin.
You may treat II a. Niulofien sardou
luIHi IN Ms Madsmu Saus.uu.r, using
ne ere emperor UpisUuicaliy.
Or you may take some strong anu
human incident In tue great COZ uurf.
uf's liirauI write play fevoivin.
round that Incident.
D. A..
ulhu ull these thfro methods, aud, h.
'AInf - grasp 'vufythiug, has &C.
complishcd virtually nothing.
His subject was too vast and too far.
reaching 10 he packed withiu the Iimils
VI hvo slender acts. His mode OF deal.
lng win his subjects was not hfm or
tufr enough IN any case 10 Do iull jut-
tee 10 Napoleon.
II hv had acted on the hint supplledby
Dumas's cuutus play, y tpoleOh Bona.
lAF'ei u ht hau iihkul his sauly discou.
nvc'cu srnsrs by intr uuciug on.
sifong character like tue my,trrlous
Hpy, who Ia the Dumas ~ y, b., asit
Nuir, tue hetU's guardian anu goou
senluti ~ ho had thrown cltAfpt
ught upon tue m luvrs, the ambition.
anu Tue lassi0nu when explained tue
conqurfot's cuurt; u he hnd had ths
skin g. make tis drama move on.
gathering ioicu with each new torb-
until the lsst und CT WING rpi.t dc
VS. rrHeued, he migut have mad, a
viffiug, nctiug play.
Ihs ne NaioitUn Bonar arte can
never be.
Tue n 'Ioleon whom We zee In this
Napoleon Is uapstio 10 an I'M a.,iy,.
cl-cohtatIuI ana ugII being. m
Nh.t prone tos,fiko imp. sing atltuyr.
auu slrHs 10 tuotL ui.uinicl, stalty
luIAfte' MT Mah'iiuli hhsunuuubtciIy
ursl9W,d more cafe a q thought up.n
tue nero hulntcfpfois than m0st rrapi.
10 hls audiUucrs, aul 1 am moi pir.
patri o. "a Onuaul, that he ~ wfun.
ia me epucup Ion Ui the "A or sigu,
aiu hubiis OF tuv Man Of ID .iiuy,
Mf Mansfield seemed 90 tg uufuiv
colo Ia hli hls scenes With the devoted
NaltWska, Aud yet, ~ be has told
"a more thAu oucr, he love- hef dearly,
lie Nas Alliiiu more o. Ices tlan bu
mhu a. all sihges Of the piay. lnirtg.
nis acsiug seemed TO me mucn ltssip-.
lftsslvc, till The hunl usatu scene. than
we Abllly hrtnoNUl iu the mpusitg
~ me Vatl ~ gtUu,s and tabl,aux iu
MAJ oleon bouapAftr. OF these, pef.
nnpsi tue huesI Is disclosed upon m.
utli ~ waterloo, where the familiar
VI ufr OF the curquul0T, Ia his long
"frdingotr grise, " bee NEE the certfo
OF picture which IL both effective and
artistic.