The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11
MUcIC AND DRAMA.
EFFYE ELSLER.

| Grand believes in giving his patrons en-
/ tertainments certain to please by rea-
son Of the high quality and true merit
of the company presenting the play.
And now on Saturday comes that tai
| ented and favorite little actress, Effie
Ellsler, and her excellent company of
Shakespearian actors with no less
play than LAS You Like It." the star as
Rosalind. The play Will be ma gnificent-
| ly mounted and costumed and all the
| music viii be introduced, including the
| Cuckoo Song" No more excellent en-
| tertainment is on the road this season
and lovers Of high-class acting will en-
| joy treat.
KEENE AS HAMLET.
No play of any time has produced
such brilliant reviews from the pens OF
! the greatest literary minds Of the eigh-
| teenth and nineteenth centuries, as the
masterpiece of Shakespeare--"H Hamlet"
| The distinguished actors of all nations
have esSayed the part, and all have won
fame, while differing perhaps in i'm
portant points of their conceptions.
Thomas Keene, who is to produce the
tragedy here on tonight at the Craw-
ford Grand is the present recognized
of scholarly instincts, and in all mat
tiers touching his profession a profound
thinker and earnest inquirer. Follow
ing the reasonings of the ablest critics
--as prominently--Goeth SChlegel, and
Coleridge. he seems as we remember TO
have seen him. inclining rather to the
ghost, and seeing him--for we must ac-
count the theory of the spirits VISIBLE
ity, as ii was apparent to Horatio and
two others--Hamlet believes and re-
solves. When the ghost is no longer
present to his eyes. then he falls into
doubt. This is the keystone of Keene's
acting. According to Goethe, shake
speare has laid a great deed upon a
sould unequal TO it's performance.
Keene's Hamlet is full of resolves, but
fails upon constant doubt to act. This
doubt even leads him TO almost brutal
treatment of Ophelis He loves her,
but believes her 10 be an instrument OF
her fathers espionage on him for the
kings purposes.
Keene's rendition Of the princely
young Dane is a study worthy the at
tention of all lovers Of the master. He
seems as has been said Of him, 10 COM
bine the grace Of Booth. the force OF
Forrest, and the versatility OF Daven-
port.
WATCH FOR WTTERSON.
This will be great week in Wichita
so far as the appearance OF great peo-
pie go Tonight the most distinguished
actor in the country viii be at the
Crawford and tomorrow night the most
distinguished southern editor will be at
the Garfield in the person OF Colonel
Henry WatterSon Of the Louisville
Courier-Journal- Mr.. Watterson is to
deliver his great lecture on Lincoln, of
-, -.
NO report though Ii contained every
word uttered. could do Mr.. Watterson
justice. One must see the man. watch
that eagle eye and note the changes OF
that cold. pale face. While he is an ora
tor. on this occasion he eSchewsd the
tricks Of the rhstorician and was lido
matte, not 10 say epigrammauc. and al
times dramatic. He is a word painter,
and as such he can have no rival His
language is pure. and is enriched by
that sweet. soft, southern enunciatioa
which makes one hang on 70 every
word. He builds rich and beautiful
sentences. and they are always freight
ed with ideas and crowned with logic.
Better still. he is in love with his
theme. FOR though he wore the grey, he
loved Lincoln and reveres his memory.
He presents a new picture 81 the mar
tyr. Other ora tors have written OF
Lincoln for the time only WatterSon'S
estimate 81 him viii live forever. The
old OF the average grafton or the e-nan-
cipator would serve the same purpose
to review jefferson. Jackson. Martin
Luther o. Washington. But Watterson
gives US the result OF thirty years study
az The man. Il was first delivered IN
Chicago, Tuesday night. and yet the
story was so elOQusntly. inStruc-ively
told. that. though the recital lasted one
hour and forty minutes. the audience
could have listened until morning
broke. In a word. il was the gres test
grafton ever heard in Rockford. and its
effect viii last as long as the auditors
remain on this part OF the mundane
sphere"