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Walker Whiteside as Hamlet.


| ence might We'll have been much
/ larger, but those who witnessed Mr..
| WhIteslde's portrayal were amply com
| pensated for their loyalty to this sub
lime tragedy-the phenomenal exposl-
| ton of mans mind
| That the characters Of this tragedy
| live in the imagination as surely and
/ as VlVlqly as do those of the worlds
| most recent history, is an undying tes-
| tlmon1al to the genius of their creator.
Till the crack of doom, humanity will
love Hamlet, pity Ophelia, indulge
Polon1us, d@test King Claudius and de-
| plore the weakness of Queen Ger
trude, as sincerely as though they had
/ all really existed and met their tragic
ends.
The minute study which Mr.. White
1 side has bestowed upon the character
l was at all times apparent last night.
1 He was in excellent form physically
every move was facile and graceful
! and his voice, always resonant, vi
| DRAFTED in perfect sympathy with the
Immortal speeches of the prince.
| The tendency to stilted utterance &C.
| casionally noticeable in his Shylock
| the night before, was absent. He
i dropped to the eolloquial in an easy,
! natural manner that gave his speeches
! the haVor of spontaneity. His read
! ing of the two great Soliloquies-
/ What rogue and pleasant slave am
| l. and ITO be or not to be"-was highly
/ conmendable. One might well say
/ with the garrulous Polonius, We'll
4 spoken, and with good accent"
! That MIR. Whiteside has bestowed in
4 telliSent study upon these speeches,
/ and, indeed, upon all that Hamlet ut
! ters, was Enthusiastically evident. His
| emphasis are exceptionally effective,
/ which is proof of their correctness,
i for no line of Shakespeare properly
spoken is without it's effect.
His management of Hamlet's scene
with the ghost was admirable in point
! Of stage business and settings. Mr..
| Whiteside effectively denoted Ham
| lets reverence and love for the spirit
/ of his father. Had Mr.. Clifford, who
/ Impersonated the ghost, spoken his
lines with little more elaboration,
j the scene would have been enhanced,
/ Tor his tendency to hurry the poetic
j eXhortation necessarily detracted from
/ its inpresSiyeness. But for the dis
tinctness of Mr.. Clifford's delivery he
| merits much praise. Not word of
| this eloquent appeal to Hamlet was
! lost, and for this relief from a sep
/ ulchra1 mumbling of the magnificent
! lines, much thanks"
| Mr.. Whitesfde was altogether happy
| in his conduct Of the brief coIloquy
/ between Hamlet and Polonius. Here
/ .
1 because of his Polon1us, which highly
| important character was intrusted to
i Mr.. Chester. An Inadequate, unappre-
j cfat1ve actor can utterly spoil Polon-
/ Jus, and to that extent spoil Hamlet"
| Fortunately, Mr.. Chester was compe-
| tent to give expression to the proper
| conception of this character. Hence an
added delight often absent from
| presentations of this tragedy.
| Mr.. Whiteside played the closest
/ scene with genuine Intensity that did
| not smack Of theatricism. 1t must be
confessed that the Queen Gertrude, of
| Miss Kathryn Reyes, was disappOint-
| ing, mainly because she was jndfS-
| tinct. Interpreters of Shakespearean
| roles lose nine tenths O. whatever eff
fectiveness they might posses, if they
| do not get the dramatiSts words over
the footligats. 1.l4
| Right Mere 1t might be mentioned
| that the incidental music, while me
! lodious, was occasionally loud enough
to drown the words and to that extent
fatal to the enjoyment of those who
| want to hear Shakespeare, not the or
/ chestra
The colloquy between Hamlet and
| the grave digger is not Mr.. Whiteside's
! best scene. He seemed inclined to
| hurry over it last night, and even cut
! out that characteristic speech wherein
| Hamlet traces the noble dust of Alex
! ander'' till he finds it stopping a beer
| barrel.
! The Ophelia Of Miss Leila wolstan
i stirs the sympathy that the character
| itself awalzens in the reader of the
! play, and that is a tribute to her act
| ing Of it. She looks the part" to
| begin WITH a victory in itself-and she
acts it with commendable taste. Ii
| the mad scene Miss WoIstan. displays
! a discretion and restraint that can
| not but appeal to the discerning. She
| received well merited applause.
One more member Of the company
| deserves special mention, for his ad-
nirable delivery of the lines allotted to
! King Claudius, and that is Mr.. Sears
| Mr.. Sears played the ungrateful, yet
| strong character of the king with ex-
ceptional appreciation of the nature OF
/ the man. His makeup was almost
too comedy to correspond with HamIet's
| designatien-~blo king" but perhaps
| Hamlet was prejudiced against his
| Uncle Claudius. Fred Hunt.
This afternoon Mr.. Whiteside will
| present his impersonation of Shylock
tonight he will appear as Richard III
/ A. w. Pinero's comedy of English So
| ciety The Gay Lord QueX," will be-
gin half weeks engagement at the
Metropolitan tomorrow night. The
principal female role, that of the mani
curist, will be, played by Sylvia Lyn-
den. 7,
Williams & Walker, the colored com.
edians and their company will close
their enga cement at the Grand witt
today's matinee and evening perform.
ance. The show is worth seeing.
| Yesterday at the Star theater over
two hundred ladies witnessed the per-
Torrance of the High Rollers, a large
increase over any previous ladies' mat
| inee. The popular innovation has
| caught the public fancy and Manager
Singer will undoubtedly have to give
| two matinees a week for the fair sex