The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-24
DALY'S COMPANY (
AT FROTHINGHAM
Produced Shakespeare's Comedy, The
Tanning Of the Shrew.
MISS ADA REHAN AS KATHERINE
l.argc and Representative Audience
Saw the PerfOrmance...James
Young and Company Present
Hamlet ut the Academy in II Very
CrcditabIe Manner..SOme of the
Coming Attractions at the Thcaters.

Those who saw Ada Rehan at the
rockingham last night in 1.-The Tam
ing Of the Shrew"-and as many as the
house could comfortably hO.d did-un-
derstand why Miss Rehan has for de-
cade been considered the country 8
greatest exponent of Shakesperean
comedy They understand far better
than any one could tell them with mere
words.
Miss Rehan possesses that something.
sometimes termed genius, which distin-
guisheS the great actor capable OF NOV
ing and swaying an audience from the
artist whose work Is finished, excellent,
but yet lacks the one great essential
the possession Of which conceals a
host of minor defects. Miss Rehan's
work Is that of the studious, finished
artist, her years Of training under Mr..
DAILY makes mention of that fact al
most superfiuous, but she possesses
what he could never have learned from
Mr. Daily, the ability to make a living.
breathing parsonage of the character
she assumes, and it is this quality and
the delicacy and subtlety Of imperson-
the delicacy and sublity of imperson-
age that accompanies it. which makes
Miss Rehan the queen of Shake.
spearean comedy.
night for the first time in the second
act of the comedy she achieved the
ideal Of Shakespeare's shrewish Kath-
crime. Every movement, look and
word, she left no doubt as to her vix-
enish character. Then came the
stormy wooing, during which she was
moved by turns from mirth to rage,
and finally the breaking down of the
shrew, the subduing of the vixenish
spirit, and the appearance of the real
woman, whose good qualities had been
obscured by an abnormal condition Of
mind. In all of these varying phases
Miss Rehan was equally true to ma
ture, and it was impossible to say in
which Of them she most strongly i'm
pressed the audience with her power.
The Petrucio of George Clark was
worthy of Miss Rehan's Katherine. and
the other characters were also in very
competent hands. Edwin Stevens did
an excellent bit of character work as
Christopher Sly, drunken tinker,
and the work of Mrs. G. H. Gilbert one
Of the veterans of the stage, won de-
served tributes of applause. The COM
pany was accorded a very hearty well
come. and after every act the prin-
cipals were compelled to bow their
acknowledgements. The singing was
excellent.
One of Scranton's most fashionable
and representative audiences saw the
performance.
AN ENJOYABLE "HAMLET."
A most enjoyable surprise was en-
joyed by the five or six hundred per-
sons who braved last evenings in
clement weather and risked the hazard
of an unheralded performance so far
as to see Mr.. James Young enact
Hamlet" at the Academy of Music. 1t
probably Is true that most of those
who were present went to the play
house expecting TO be treated to the
comedy of 4 jealous, but indiscreet at
tempt to enact this most difficult and
subtle of tragic roles. 1t certainly Is
true that nobody left the theater with
out feeling that real Hamlet" had
been presented by an actor, who. de-
spite scme crudities which experience
will mend adds to the gifts of fine elo-
cution and seemly presence the
quality Of sympathy with the plays
varied requirements. and the recon-
mendation of manifest intelligence In
Much to our regret. pace does not
al present permit of an extended analy-
sis Of this effective performance. but
we can truly say that Mr.. Young is
Hamlet" of possibilities. 1t is within
reason to expect of him as much in
due time as is to be expected of any
Of the younger class of players now
striving for distinction in the serious
drama. lie has the poetry as well as
the mechanism of the part. and his i'm
personation is instinct with what we
think may fairly be called genius
Tonight he will be seen in David
Garrick.'