The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03

The tragic story of Henrik Ibsens
"Ghosts" will be given stage presenta-
ton by two companies during the sea
son now opening, and theater goers
will have thus another opportunity to
study this impressive work Of the great
Norwegian author. The two companies
referred to will be sent out under the
management Of George H. Brennan.
They will be headed by Mary Shaw
and Alberta Gallatin
Both companies have had long tours
arranged and will produce the play in
almost every state in the Union Miss
Shaw's company will appear in the east
and middle west. Miss Gallatin's book
ings take her through the south and
west. She is to play from the Atlantic
to the Pacific
The American public has shown an
appreciation Of Ibsen that has encour-
aged the management of the two COM
panies to give the productions equip
ment which will exhibit the plays to
the best possible advantage, and the
personnel Of both organizations Is stat
ed to be such as will guarantee accu-
rate, instructive and entertaining inter
pretations Of the story of Mrs. Alving,
her husband, and Oswald, her son. Ger
tain it is that the leading role, that of
Mrs. Alving, of course, will be enacted
with power and at the same time with
sympathetic understanding by Miss
Shaw and Miss Gallatin.
Miss Shaw made an unqualified sue
cess of her appearance in Ghosts" last
season, and neither critics nor audi
ences were backward in expressing
their appreciation of her delineation Of
the character of Mrs. Alving. Miss
Shaw showed a thorough realization
Of the mental ordeal through which the
unfortunate woman passed and inter-
preted the role with a forcefullless COM
polling the admiration of her specta-
tors.
A Chicago critic speaks of Miss Shaw
as follows:
Miss Shaw, who is a woman well within
middle age. has for twenty years been
contributing sane and original ideas to
the American stage, and her influence has
been exercised indirectly rather than d.
rectly. If 1t were not SO she would today
be far better known to the great public
But she has never been willing to do the
expedient thing. She has thought her
way along difficult paths slowly, careful
ly, like a scholar, and because she has
declined to seek the easy ways to recog-
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ahead of her time. While the amusement
seeking patron of the theater has been
lettering over fustian, triviality and mock
heroics she has left the beaten path and
pressed toward goal that rises above
precipitous and difficult heights Upon
ambitious and receptive actors her inf1u-
ence has been immense, and there is
well founded suspicion that Mrs. Fiske,
perhaps the foremost representative in
America today of the school which seeks
first Of all the reasonable as the founda-
ton of the effective, is not unwilling to
consider Miss Shaw as a leader and
teacher
Though more af1uent in person, more
sonorous in voice and more serene in tenn
permanent than Mrs Fiske is, Miss Shaw
still recalls that actress. There is the
same tawny hair, the same incisiveness
Of utterance, the same constant but SUBJ
dued facial play the same determination
to look at art and life straightly and to
keep the terms of art and life inter-
changeable
Miss Shaw is Bostonian She has
had a wide experience on the stage and
among other productions she appeared
In the original "Ben-Hur" as Amrah,
the leper mother, and in Ibsen's "a
Dolls House" She has been leading
woman for many prominent stars and
has also acted on the English stage.
She has played an important part in