The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-04-20

Last evening Mr.. Joseph Haworth,
Miss Bertha Galland and their good
company of players gave tae second mum
ber OF their shak.speariesn repertoire,
Hcuse. Thers were goodly number oi
Mr.. Haworth's friends in attendance,
who gave his earnest efforts warm ap-
provAl. There were many curtain calls
and a number OF those I'm the audieuoe
waited after the final curtain TO compel
Mr.. Haworth to bow his acknowledge
ments OF the favors they had SO gene
rousIy extended.
1t may we'll be doubted II In the whole
realm OF English literature there Is a
stronger or moro mystical creation than
this great masterpiece OF the English
dramatist. In the literature of the VOL Id
few characters that have been drawn ex-
col It In depth OF Interest. IL is mys-
terry and portrays the mind and one must
bs able to analyze the human soul TO de-
pict It's fulness There Is something that
will ever escape notice, for the boundary
line betwesn reason and insanity is q
faint one, and the portrayal Is one that
In the students closet, added to rare ca
pacity tor explanation to portray. Hard
Is 1t to hold the mirror up To nature In
suoh piece, for but one or two men in
moro than three generations can do that or
express In an intelligible way the most
serious of problems the relative power
the body and its functions havs to control
the soul. There 10 another Hamlet. one
not 80 difficult to portray, q prince. who
disstmbles In order to accomplish his
purposes, q man who partly mystic, or,
rather, superstitious, takes into mis- own
hands the righting OF certain wrongs,
whose main purpose is revenge, who re-
ceives, or believes he does from smother
world an order to set the times right
sWhn asauuno tho Y,roroO afivo ON nj Oo-
tence In regard 60 vengeance, and who
fails hiost lamentably. For inn0cencu.
as hath been well said. suffers with
guilt and the end Is bitter aud unwhole-
some. between the two is wide differ
enos, but IL is all a tragedy. deep and
dark, that men have revelsd In at oil
times. Some are satisfied with one por-
trayal, and others who ask where IL the
profit seek In the first the discovery Of
tue RrAndest and most terrible problem
man could aJampt to solve. namely In
finity itself.
Ihe second Hamlet uses great lam
guaue. He has on his tongues end hopes
and queries that sound Leautiful. These
that surround him forget their melan.
choly only to speak, not as men or wo-
men. but ~ superior teines The music
OF this language holds all with the love
Of beauty in them nearly always spell
bound. The reader becomes greater even
IMAM no Who copIlvhtbs Us Win Dis noJes,
for we think and do not lot our minds
float rs boat unguided upon tie river.
Mr.. Haworth takes the second view of
the Danish prince, and he does we'll TO
do IT, iior hs possesses many eoud qualit %
as Q reader nnd he has an sarnestness
about him and shades his work In q
manner that, II II hides the nner lines OF
che problem, Is interesting. There was
In many ways noticeable last evening 3
marked improvement In his manner, Ind
it Is evident that ne progresses ON certain
lines and oven n the lines are not broad
ones the progress II coinmendAble.
Miss Galland In the simpler scenes, as
Ophelis, was simple aud natural she,
seemed TO be just one of those women of
ordinary kindly nature who filled the
world OF court or peasant In Shakef-
peare's time. as they bsge since. though
lacking qualities that modern pfogrsks
has made more common. In tho mad
scenes there was evidence OF care. atten-
tion and study which may be the, pronl-
iss OF greater thipRa which oil who nd
ticed hsr efforts ust wish may be sue
cessful. The rest of the cast do well and
every attention is paid to important do
tails.
The evening Romeo and Juliet" will
he given. and Hamlet" again on Friday
night. t't