The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30
NYB TALKS !. . ABOUT n \ IRVING IR|l ING
The H.lmorist Tells Us What He
Thinks Of the Great
Actor.
A Plain rlan But Vet He Seems to
to Know What He is Do
ing on the Stage.
Suggestions Are nade Whereby
the Great English Actor
Could Profit.

Could Profit.
I have just been to hear Sir Heuly r.
wing, the emotional young actor from
England. He is supported by Miss Ellen
Terry. I like her very much, very much,
and the criticisms on the play were quite
Favorable, with the exception that
Ule man who sat near the, resting his
large piercing knees in my back, claimed
chat the play should have contained more
hits at the New York elections.
'King Arthur" was the name Of the
play, and SO it was hard to get anything
about 'Eammany that would not seem
e,rraneous. Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote
ine music for the play and Sir Edward
Burne-Jones furnished the scenery and
costumes. y So with Sir Henry Irving as
King Arthur we had quite noble array
Of talent, and felt that again I was NOV
ing among iny own set.
There is a good prologue goes with the
play, but many wealthy people came in
after this was over, each carrying a uujll
tocthpic}z to indicate that they had been
to dinner. They came in with & we'll
bred air, and the low, passinoate cries of
these whose feet had been walked upon,
together with sharp rattle of opening
opera seats, showed that those who were
already seated were the vulgar people,
who are too poor to lose the first part of a
play, and that the leisure classes, who
keep posted, time their dinners SO as to
drop in after the prologue and introduce
their good clothes and massive stomachs
at such a time as to share the public at
tention with Mr.. Irving.
In the prologue we see the magic mere,
and from it's somber depths comes forth
the very wonderful sword excalibur Mr.
Irving accepts it with a few we'll chosen
remarks, ano Merlin, the magician, tells
King Arthur what is expected of him.
He also warns him about Guinevere
Love and hate are born in May.
Love, the bird upon t1e wing;
Hate, the worm devouring.
All loves flowers of yesterday
Wait for thee in Guinevere.
In vision he sees her with her golden,
hair all hanging down her back, and he
seems to think that with her and excal-
ibur he could go to keeping house inside
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Mr.. Irving is not,.a handsome man, and
it is just as well to be frank about that at
c1ce. Ills face is very thin, and his legs
give an oval effect to the picture one
sees beyond him. He walks as one
might who feels a little uncertainty about
the distance between o,lr American rail-
way ties. yet wlo feels determined to
venture it. His voice is not melodious
and dies away at times in the vast arcfli-
lecture Of his nose and pharynX, and vet
what q great HAN he is! ,.
Plain almost to the limit ,of the law,
and with features which make clock in
voluntarily cover its face with its hands.
and vet bow marvellous, especially as the
architect aili builder II & Dlay. lie is
fortunately far out of the raach OF .7uA
l1ane criticism, and yet he need net i&=ssi iss
II il any aVeat, for am with hiln most
heartily in this work. Should he c3iYas;
to orr place this season he needn't pay for
thing while there. The cold parlor bed
roGDl is his while he is in town and my
own beautiful sterling napIziD ring shall
be At his plate each fay.
& In act first kink Arthur's kniglats are
seen preparing 70 60 in search OF the iloiy
grail ',,1ssy are clothed in full panoplv,
though some Of tham-in ralller p3a.
taste, tlought-wore shirts Of mail that
were little tco long and showed few
inches below their steel tapcoais. {. is
to be hoped that Mr.. Irving viii dc
nothing TO offend the American people
upon the theory that we are coarse or wul-
gar in our tastes. It might lie as we'll,
therefore. before going 10 Boston. f1r Mr.
Irving TO ask Sir Bediver, Sir Laneelot
Sir Agravaine and others to cut off two
or three inches Of these garments, or a.
least 10 tuck them III, for or best peopi.
will not submit to anything az all which
would indicate that cur 7G3sbes and seD5i-
bilities are not fully as aleft as are those
OF the people Of London who visit the Ly-
ce,im !thea'ter. It is in the first act aaat
the sad .rste1 begins to dawn upon the
spectator that the queen is too much in-
terested in Sir LaneaLot. She did no; dis
GDNSi' 1t Aei2oeaL HittIl LIE -IOly s.LGil LFlll
Is contemplated Then She suddenly no.
tices. that when Sir Lancelot goEs- away,
WiEh LITTLE chance OF his return, times WIZ
be extremely dull around the castle, and
even church work viii not aIona ,le acl@
TO distract her sarrowing heart Sir Ian,
celot, too, feels greatly agitated between
his oath TO si,as king and his deep but HI
fortunate and las [ may says,1s IL chosen
love for. the queen. @s1
sIllE, king 5isso ignsrant of all this new
situation that hsf tells Lancelot to remain.
Never mind the grail he says in sub
ssaace. Stay here and play tennis. But
Ianceiot dares not trust himself, and
inallv the king eosnpels Guinevere to.
ma ka the order for Lancelot to renal in.
Tine queen now goes Maying5 il a bsau-
tsitil wpod, a. most seductive and bloomy
1,sace, asld when she mas succeeded IN
scattering her maids among the woods.
she meets .Sil, aI4ancsi0t, who has escaped
from his eilaosran, and there :sssa love
scene between ..slen Winich takes one back
MI 81 bounding hear 10 IL q az of his
youth. { 3a syI3 ss.ss
II this scene there is enc of regret
tomak / tI.r iiI1ing L, a degree Ear
taraNsay nile tie good are bat