The sun., 1900-09-27
THE DRAMAS ENCOUNTERS.
uR. SOTHBRN LIFTS IT UP AND MR.
u'GOIERN THROWS 1T DOWN.

the riay of The Bowery After Dark
Inward II. Sothern appeared for the tenth
..,, in Hamlet" at the Garden Theatre yester-
,y The improvements made In his per-
,.rr.9ugr during the repettions are more than
,.,r,ly epprrciable. They mark the difference
l.rarrn what he meant TO do on the opening
,,It and what he fell short OF doing under
n. stress of a Shakespearean debut. They
.-, due I'm part also to the heed whloh he has
,,,y.u f0 kindly criticism Instead OF being
e.,,.d into sclf-satisiaction by abundant praise.
ne has taken careful thought Of the
g,uraniing and has not disdained to profit
b., .,rsrt advice He has abated his amatory
s.lor with Ophsiid and his homicidal spirit
,fr king Ciaudius. thus bravey sacrificing
IT. carefully prepared Innovations upon ind
I,. that they were not advisable after all. In
tba-, respects, and in the scene with Queen
',,,truds, there Is a good gain In dignity and
u, loss Of dramatic potency. Without going
nasile,,ly into details II may be said that
,.,st Of the faults have been lessened and most
- tho merits increased There is no longer
,ov mood 10 regard this Hamlet as merely a
l.,rrl thing The SUN said after the first
.r-..re of II that there had been
pooe 50 good on our stage since Booth. ~ u
NOW possible 10 declare that Sothern bears
r,,,. .ramrnt by the Booth standard without
s..V.ny other than eooutionary shortage
- 49,, o,,sr have another actor with Booths
'..' .,, ,,ciI,a nd exnressiye diction? When
s,t1crn is compared with those who have
III, snr ma within ton wears especially
Win those who have endeavored, as he does
=, buraui2s the character to convey II from
opr lr..n. 10 our hearts and 10 expand II
from Iutrllcctualty into romantclsm. ne
f. grplfly superior TO any OF them
H., >uricty Of moods ana outoreaks
~ feeling are grap.tSahE Eim,in, H,,Vpg ~ tSs
aln""-u rs - Gsath Of hIs father, is too pro-
toI,d ~ permit an increase OF woe when
cause for IL Tahsptes' AT, ls ,ssbed ,yhen his
a.u mo N.,,,ncs turbulent, and he is ever
e,,Gneut iu looks a. well as In speech, althouRh
M- face mEht DctteT remain r,oh wth The black
sgHg t8n ~ %, ~, isicai Illness In the encounters
Win the Gbos he is at his best, which Is ruy
great aud IA NE 5VH9quHWes W ~ in iit'' liz en-
which is not snall. II MS Hnhts nhs Hl,rin9 its
tr ~ continues 10 GtoW as ~ oS nus ~ ~. inooked
first week and q nalt' " VIII so0u 0Ouuaip1ed n9
l. is becoming quite the rad Tor the shnhH
uE'' "' we 'tn',.,o Tu, Ionctrv set the
thems'lve' on the stage, lAly Itue ". 80 ~
80. N,Coycrn il following her lead in The
le'' W., 49, ,,i, week AT the stnr.
Bower, A,er prn ,Ss rIa9 ma, bI % h. is cstalorued
ap,,tor, FEATHER and Light Weight Cham
~ p'','i'' -. porhon. &, ia az well
Tint the Garden Theatres programme
"a mot name the JERSEY Iily's
cr,,n. TO fame 1t doesn't take much
excuse to 20 on the stage nowadays man
unots ocouittod Of numbering his wife woman
who drops tee down t'e neck ol we e,,. ''"| 80
Wales. a woman who shoots and kills man
on the stage Of theatre woman who nsures 'a
conspicIously IN notorious oauset 'So
these aud some others do their little to help
N" profession IN "h'ch Joseph yene.oo ~
Ellen Terry adorn only by certain amount oi
acting ability. The principal thing McGovern
Iyu"I '",,, aT,so po,rorv A,ter DARK" ia TO wait
does IN Inc bo"eIy "'U' T., 49,
for chance to 1ln one Oi so t tr~mpbantIy
to the cheers oi 'he auenIe nJ %u sts % the plot
progress all around him. wicked Chinaman
cgsis on his mistress and she turns 10
the Christian religion, symbolized 9y cross
resta,irent lat, female comic relief OF
he German type and an Irish policemen make
gSogS qSG and Sf%1 Sy 'nel
heroine. who reminds one OF May Twins re,
mark that all women with yellow hair are & not
blondes curses per sons right ana leit' Iltr
dice for the privilege OF paying her opaLu
PHI A Rough hldep nanas ttnra ubsf hs ane noble
itlIow lie is. And Terry keeps on NV waiting Ting
In the second act Hebrew sings some pTTi99-
.'7 and sou reSIy besTtifl Nature. and
ono that would be APPRECIATED 1y on
oImirer who was mie miI,e 70 SnI'[ Sn2 dxint oi
mother never 10 t9uch liquor lnereIoIIfG,
whenever any one asks her 10 pIl,,h sIe iUs iViis
sao ss iyr saSdStT1 eoad ei and B hcPs r
M and forty heroine from the wifked Gin1 una
mans orm den This !. af.Gmpilsdhed econ psnd ss Ml,h
datacnwen' Of comedy persons And Terry