The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-13
NGLISHMAN'S
New York. March II


FORBES RoBERTsoN's Hamlet
has come into Broadway and been
received cordially. Our talk about
him reaches up TO enthusiastic admir-
alton and does not fall below serious
respect. Lucid, modern, sensitive. in
tellectual illuminative. distinctive
those are adtectivss which the more
critical among us use. But the first
audience here did not have to make up
its mind Independently about the quail
ity Of the performance, or TO wait Tor
the next days newspapers before set
ding down on an opinion, for London
had appraised the value of the per-
Torrance seven years before and that
was sufficient authority for the guild
ance of a New York fashionable as
semblage. The advertisements declare
Il the best since Booth, and I think
that is so. excepting Irving. For a de-
scriptive purpose and not to say aught
against our latest Hamlet, it may be
noted that Sothern's Is almost every
thing that Robertsons is nOt-partic-
ularly that 1t is robust. emotional,
picturesque and melodramatic, while
the Englishman's is delicate, thought
full, undemonstrative and above all I'M
theatric. Jennie Eustace gives evidence
of the contrasting noisiness Of Soth-
crn and the quietude Of Robertson.
Miss Eustace's Queen Gertrude is the
best portrayal in each production
aside from Hamlet. When she was
with Sothern she raised and forced her
voice to a key with his in the chamber
scene. which he played tumultuously,
and now with Robertson, although she
moderates her vocal power consider
ably, she is still too loud for harmony.
The English Hamlet has an American
Ophelia I'm the comedy person of Ger
trude Elliott Robertson. sister of Max
inc Elliott Goodwin. She acquits her
self tOlerably, as any actress of fair
ability always does in that simple role.
but with far less distinction than she
has gained in London since she went
there with the Goodwins as the SOU
brette for THE Cowboy and the Lady"
From that employment she passed up
10 the Annie Russell heToines in "A
Royal Family" and "MicO and Men"
II was in the comedy last named that
she became q stage associate of Forbes
Robertson, as he was the ethnologist
who. in that piece. fell in love with the
founding girl whom he scientifically
developed into lady, but relinquished
10 a younger. and seemlier sutton. In
private life. however, he woOed, won
and welded her. Now, Robertson and
Mrs. Pat Campbell had been copied
closely i'm dramatic art and one Of the
plays in which they had acted together
was THE Sacrament of Judas" the
short tragedy which Kyrle Bellew and
james ONeill are using in this country
and which Mrs. Campbell owned. Rob
ertson's marriage with Miss Elliott
personally operated az a divorce be-
tween him and Mrs. Campbell profess
sionally; yet in a mood that seemed
amiable she sent the play TO him as
wedding gift. However, If her purpose
had been vengeful she couldn't have
accomplished it more effectually, for
he had the piece written out to a full
evenings length and not only lost
much money I'm that version, but
brought abuse upon his bride for pre-
Stunning to take the place OF the pet
Mrs Pat as the heroine.
New material was intersDersed with
selections from current shows in the
matinee entertainment for the Actors
Home. Clay NJ. Greene contributed
For Sweet Loves Sake the singu-
1aritJ of which lay In the fact that the
inter-sex emotion indicated by the title
while the affection shown in the action
was between a companionable father
and son. Grace Livingston Furness
"A Dakota Widow" had for visible
characters a divorced couple and their
hOusemaid and the oddly was the use
of a telephone to communicate with
several other persons invisible yet in
timately connected with the separation
and reunion of the husband and wife
CosmO Gordon Lennox, husband of Ma
RE Tempest. provided The March Of