The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-18
TWELFTH NIGHT"
MISS WAINWRIGHT AND COM
 PANY AT THEATRE.
A Cultured Montgomery Audience Enjoyed Jules Murry's Scenic Production of Shakespeare
 Pretty Comedy.

Miss Marie Wainwright is not the ideal Viola of Shakespeare's fancy, but she Is an intelligent and experienced woman, and her production of Twelfth Night" at the Montgomery theater last night satisfied a cultured audience.
 It Is an encouraging sign of the times that Jules Murry and other astute and successful purveyors of public amuse- ment invest Shakespeare's plays with ad- public has grown sick of the penny farces and that there is gradually growing revuIsion in public tastes. The good is coming into it's own.
 The Murry production of Twelfth Night" Is not lavish, but 1t is sufficient The thirteen scenes are faithfully por- trayed. The play, like all sof Shakes peare's creations for the stage, moves slowly. There is not the action of the twentieth century drama, but the story Is unfolded quietly, logically. naturally The series of pictures were charming. In- deed, Olivia's garden was beautiful.
 It requires all of the art, all of the cunning of stageeraft to properly handle the scenic investments of modern Shakespearian production. And this was the one bad feature of last night1 enter tainment. The stage carpenters failed to make the changes in the first three scenes, before the audience. as was in- tended, and unusually long waits ensued. This delinquency, coming early in the performance, marred in a degree, the de- lightful entertainment that followed. o'
 Perhaps the stage carpenter would say that there are too many scenes and too many acts. We might agree with him. But this is fitting shakespeare's age into the twentieth century, and we must have it if we must have Shakespeare.
 Barring one or two minor members, Miss Wainwright has a most excellent company, True, MT. Johnson, who made a handsome, romantic Orsino. declaims a trifie too much. and impresses one with the fact that he is acting all of the time, but Orsino is a most difficult role, and MT. Johnson appears to be young.
 The Sebastian of MT. Kellard would have been more convincing if nature had better endowed him to play the part with Miss Wainwright.
 The lower comedy work was In good hands. Sir Toby was excellently portray ed by Mir. Applebee and MT. Aitken made A very good Sir Andrew. He might apply repression to his work. however. Too much exuberance sometimes spells a good thing.
 There is not much for the clown to do, but MT. Allen made it stand out from the rest. A little while ago Mir. Allen played Grumio here He made Grumio>a a living character and it was said of him then that he was well equipped to play Shakes peare's low comedy parts. He did not disappoint us last night.
 MT Allen was perhaps at his best in delivering the mock speech of Malvolio beginning Some men are born great"
 It must not be overlooked. by the way, that the company Is especially strength ened by the intelligent. finished work of MT. Conlan as Malrolio.
 The women as whole measured stronger in popular sympathy than the men. Miss Rogers made a womanly Olivia. She has a marvelously sweet and we'll modulated voice and she appeared to fully apreciate and understand the lines.
 Miss Wainwright came up to expecta- ton. As has been said nature did not intend her for Viola. She has the im- perious presence of an empress. Shakes peare wrote plays in which Miss Vain wright has shone better physically. But the art of Miss Wainwright always charms. She undoubtedly understands that her own physical presence is against a correct delineation of the loving, girlish girl to whom strange things happened in Illyria.
 Miss wainwright's reading is almost faultless. Her success lies in her wondrously charming voice and the train ed mind which grasps the meaning of words.
 The very key to the classic comedy con- tained in the passage: with a green and yellow melancholy "She sat, like patience on monument And conceaIment, like worm r the bud Fed upon the damask of her cheek" was delivered by Miss Wainwright with fine effect. Her repression, her express sion, her mental poise and her conflict | between the male and female, emotions made the production notable.
 All in all Twelfth Night" and Miss | Wainwright made an agreeable impression | upon a critical audience
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