The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-08
FOSTERING AMBITION.
"ro What Base Uses We May Return
Horatio."

Horatio."
They like to encourage actors with clas-
sic am bition in New York-"nit."
Player Whiteside was hailed as the COM
ing tragedian only few months ago in
New York, but since then repentance
has come and he was toyed with by near
ly all the metropolitan press, recently.
One reviewer said:
1--WE dare venture the hope that Walker
Whiteside plays tag better than he plays
Hamlet. We have not seen him play tag,
,put We saw him go against q portion OF
Hamlet on Monday night at the Herald
Square Theater, and we are almost sure
he IN better at something else. MIR. White
side was supported last evening by one OF
the largest and most conscientious
clacques ever gathered in New York
theater. These industrious persons ap-
plauded pathetically upon all possible &C.
casions beginning when Mr.. Whiteslde
first came upon the stage, and maintain
ing their fervor whenever there was
pause indicating that he had, perhaps,
reached the end of speech. This had
the apparent effect OF making some OF the
other oeadheads tired, but 1t produced no
visible relaxation upon the clacque. They
clapped and clapped, and would not be
dissuaded even wnen the impressive Al
fred Ayres frowned an imposing frown
upon them, and Kissed. They were
there to do q degree OF duty that should
impress the metropolis with the idea that
the occasion was triumphal. They did
their best, but We fear II will never ac-
complish it's purpose. Mr. Whitcside is a
man We should take to be OF somewhat
less heroic stature than the late Lawrence
Barrett, of whom he is faint and hol-
low echo. He reads with affectations of
pronunciation and Interpretation that
wear and wear upon the hearing and iu-
telligence until the listener wishes him
self upon the loftiest battlement OF Elsi-
more, that he might have the sweet pleas
ure OF jumping of. The performance
of the star is traditional, unnatural and
unconvincing. He struts about the stage
with stride so long that the watcher at
times almost looks for an impending
split. He says 'trubbul, and 'griz-
sci, and other things too numerous and
too narrowing TO mention here. he
nioans, oh, SO gruesomely. Through his
nose), ana he reads the numerous and
protracted soliloquies in q sing song that
is distracting. As Hamlet, Mr. White
side is, we fear, not quite ripe. He may
liza of last evening was MAZDA Craigen,
who, all through her early scenes, gave
the impression that she was slightly
bored, but that il the clacque did NOT tire
itself out too soon she would SHOW IL a
thing or two when her chance should ar
rive. The cast included j. l. Saphors
who played Polonius ana the First Crave
Digger; John Sturgeon, VINO was a some
what hshy Laertes; John Fay Palmer, who
was ghost with an abdomen like an Al
derman and voice like a bull; Edward
N. Hoyt, who was a somewhat peaked Ho-
ratio, and Josephine Morse, who was fair
ly good as the queen. The scenery pro-
vided for the occasion was rat ner impress
sive, although a draught across the stage
caused the massive walls of Elsinore to
wave in q manner that must have made
The sleeping inmates extremely uneasy"