The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-17
l1Jcrneil and Society.
DRAMATIC RECITAL D

DRAMATIC RECITAL BY
 The dramatic recital given by MT. Wadsworth Harris of the Ward kidoer Company. yesterday afternoon at Ine Beauvofr Club, complimentary 10 tno members of the club and stneir lauy friends, was an occasion or rare picas ura to all who ayaiied themselves or the privilege.
 On account of the absence of Colonel Robert F. Ligon, President of the Ciup' who was detained by a pressing en- gagement, Mir. Harris was presented 70 his large audience, by Mir. Tyler Good win. MT. Goodwin presented MT. liar ris fin a few chosen words of eulogy of the drama in its various influences for good and for profit and pleasure to humanity, and assured his hearers of the feast in store for them in the dramatic power of the artist about to address them.
 The selections presented to his audi erice by Mir. Harris seeemd to be un- usually felicitous. The Skeleton in Armor." had but to speak a word, and the nearer lost sight of present sur roundings, and stalked with the stal-l wart old 'yikinf through ick forests. along the frozen shore; took shipping upon the Corsair's vessels, shuddering over his cruel deeds of daring; saw the young girl whose brown eyes softened the savage heart; 1amented his failure to have his love returned; and when he had stolen his prize and she had loved and died, it was with a sigh of relief that the audience saw the vik- ing end his grief upon his swords point! The voice of MT. Harris holds tragical vibration in his grasp which gives a relish unsurpassable.
 As You Like It." furnished for MT. Harris an illustration of the level tones of his voice and the philosophic naturalness of the rehearsal of the seven stages, enabled the listeners, to enter into the feelings of the great master who penned the immortal words.
 selection from the poems of Owen Meredith. The Portrait" was handled with a delicacy of sympathetic feeling. The lover, whose faith had fingered over the bier of his dead mistress, held the strong interest of the audience, and the gruesome finale lost nothing in the rich voice which gave each character its proper dues. and the beauty of every sentence was set forth in a man. ner that did full justice to the bril- liant genius whose originality evolved them.
 The selection from Hamlet was the scene in which the Gravedigger utters his homely wit and gave MT. Harris another opportunity to display his versatility.
 The magnificent voice brought out the sentiment of every line, of ever, word, and the audience saw the whole | as if presented by a troupe of players The scene from Henry VIII might bt l called an especially excellent one The | reach of the speakers art composed the whole gamut of feeling in thi, | most complex of Shakesperian trage, | dies. The fallen Courier lost moth. ing of pathos from the fine voice ana | fine presence of MT. Harris.
 The delicious dreamy rhythm o Drifting" received new sIgnIncancs
 and was artistically fine in phoneti, | quality and material swing of rhythm
 under the magic voice of MT. liar l ris.
 At the close of the recital. the mem bers of the club and their guests helC
 an informal reception in honor of Mir
 Harris. Among the guests was Mis- l Brooks, who is also a member of thu | Warde- Kidder Company.
 l In last nights drama at the Mont | gomery Theatre MT. Harris took thu | part of Hamilcar.