New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-26

!, hss not been for many years.
-. csrdfr Journals are giving full accounts
i -. sudden outbreak of religious feeling. and
- Of the details OF a practical nature.
= ,shsic-hous-s in the mining villages are
-. arrests for drunkenness have declined;
I-.ssnity is no longer heard at the mines; the
p-ID,en sing hymns while they are at work;
r. when the day is done the chapels filed
- sevout, earnest laborers and their families.
-. is nothing hystericaI IN the services. al
S.e.vh the congregations are deeply moved;
r. uhen the revival meeting is over the wor-
L,.,ers. who have been confessing their faith
craving for the unconverted, return to their
- singing as they go. Gambling has ceased
4 .,nne Of the mining towns and some Of the
lest corners OF South Wales have been re-
L--oed al least temporarily by this wonderful
L,rsne revival. The little principality is the
L,,t homogeneous section OF the United King
[a- and whatever effects one county is speedily
E.-,roun.cated TO the other districts. The re-
Ival IS expected 70 spread northward from
I,,rraarthen Glanorgan and Cardigan to Rad
L. Montgomery and Carnarvon: and when this
Lrcurs the Nonconformist ministers throughout
srrisud win be wondering whether the time
l,sr not have come for q religious awakening
hnlay 10 that which followed the preaching of
IVeslsy and the opening OF his worldwide par
in While that was preaching movement, the
Lew hymns with the note Of personal religions
bse much TO co with its permanent success; and
Erssic is the UNDERGONE Of the fervor and en-
Etusissm IN Wales
he E1izabethan Stage Society. after sue
s.sxful provtncial tour, is giving a dozen per-
kc-mances at Terry's Theatre There are two
kssys. 1.-The Comedy of Errors and Doctor
Fzustus.' with selections OF Elizabethan music
In Instruments provided by AIr Arnold Dol
nesch and the Queens Prayer from Ralph
holster Doister" reeited by six players kneeling
III ine across the stage The substitution Of
It's Kings name fer Elizabeth's in this quaint
lusyer is IS indefensible anachronism as the
Irs, Of modern Instruments would be in Mr. Dol
luasch's orchestra Mr.. William Peel introduces
|. Hsge modelled after that Of the Old Fortune
szshouse. and costumes closely initiated from
ass Of the Elizsbethan age In the Comedy
@Errors'' the Antipholuses from Syracuse and
lDhssus have Dutch costumes. ard their serving
Lnsr the Dromios. are habited like attendants
sa the oldtime burghers of Delft and Leyden.
The play is enacted IN ninety minutes no time
Etelng wasted in shifting scenes or in Intervals:
Isnd the hustle and continuity OF the comic
seenes irnpart life and consistency TO the old
fzrce. In this way ineligible idea is con-
Fsye6 Of what the theatre was like when Shake
Spesre wrote his plays for the entertainment OF
Eizsbethan audiences; ana the galleries have
pot lost their sense OF rollicking fun since the
klose Of the sixteenth century, for the mistakes
b identity cause genuine merrinent Of
bid The stalls may not find Shakespeare's early
farce ingenious, although the plot was borrowed
PROM Plautus; but when the text IS taken rapidly
krffhout Encouragement OF scenes the lucidity
m the construction becomes apparent Masters
knd men are mistaken one for another and the
spectators are never In doubt respecting any
kody's identity; and there is no uncertainty in
the technique. there is IN the underplot Of
framing Of the shrew." where the true and
False fathers and sons are not easily kept apart.
gRead in the library the Comedy Of Errors"
see,ns mediocre farce with melodramatic end
ing n which Egeon finds his wife in the Alb
lsess and masters and serving pair of
mechanically as long lost brothers: but when the
scenes are BUSTED through and the climax of alb
Eusdity IS reached with the meeting OF Anti
pheiusss and Dronios, the explanations seem
brief es they are logical The play acquires
consistency and effectiveness when it is rapidly
Produced with scene following another with
put breaks; and the boisterous fun is amusing
enough. The acting Of the Dromios and their
masters Is excellent. and Miss Lascelles. as
Adrtsnz, has something OF Miss Rehan's style
znd grace.
Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus" is
produced on the same stage with sixteenth cen
fury costumes and curtains and with the bust
ness Of invoking Lucifer and Mephistopheles and
ct summoniag demons and apparitions managed
az # was when the play was originally enacted.
With Mr.. Hubert Carriers nne voice and dra-
ratic fervor available for the part of Faustus
tun justice is done to the splendid rhetorical
passages OF Nasf's "Alchemisi OF Eloquence"
ard to the intellectual courage Of the student,
which had fascinated Marlowe in the German
Faust story. The closing scenes. IN which
Fanstrs dies among the terror-stricken students
snd Is hustled of by evil spirits into the pres
enee Of Lucifer. are really powerful. The comic
.ateriuaes are dull and serve by contrast to IL
lnstrste the resources Of Shakespeares hun1or
Z the same period; and as the EIizabethan
rage lacked the craft for reproducing the in
esntztions Of medieval magic and visftations
from the spirit world. 50 Mr. PoePs society fails
to offer ocular proof that Faustus had any
s6eouate compensation In his twenty-four years
q nscromanac conjur.ng for eternal condeuna-
tea The Seven Deadly Sins can be suitably
assumed IN the Mosques Of the Elizabethan
era and the time OF the Restoration; and Alex
aE6e-. Helen. Pope. Cardinal and Emperor can
De made up properly and effectively posed: but
without the resources OF the modern stage the
occupations OF Faustus. when armed with all
knowledge Of good and evil. cannot be indicated
50 as to light UP the imagination. Living in the
sane age Shakespeare seemed 10 forecast the
Mechanical invention Of the present playhouse
WIEN he wrote Mosques like THE Tempest"
which Mr Tree has produced so splendidly at
haz Ms5estys Theatre. Marlowe lacked both
ne genius and the poetic tTnagiHat:ca of the in
spssea playwright. who wrote farces for the
amusement Of thoEgatless. registering grand
4ags and comedies. fantasies and tragedies for
ns entertainment OF thoughtful audiences: yet.