The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-12-26
PROVIDENCE OPERA HOUSE.

nantista ............W. III. CrOmptou
yincentio .................Wi William Harris
Lucentio ..........."..'''r ''r lt''oitNH i-0"''
pciruchio ..............''''E ~ II so'hN'" T"
GGremio ,.....s'''s''''.' - - - 'V'Ot"
Holtensio PEDRO DE CordoDa
yranio ................'''s' '''fIcu flIc
Biondello ...........'''''',fl flahh l.eicnoI
y pedseSN N................Fra Frank kingdon
Tailor ................M Malcolm Bradley
Haberdasher ....s.....''.' huson IL Mics
tathgine .......... Miss Julia Marlowe
blanca ............M Miss Alice Harrington
Widow ...... Miss Mllicent Mclaughlin
curtis ..................M Mrs. Woodward
Lady attendants at wedding-Misses
Wilson. Sanford, Wyatt, Kelly, Stoughton
and Mrs Reicher
Pages to Baptista--Misscs Sadler, Brad
ley, Gray and Gray
Page 10 Katherine-Gladys Wilkinson.
singers-Messrs. Miles. Gin, Henry and
RADON.
Musicians-Messrs Biondi Biondi, Lu-
ciano and Esposto,
Servants TO PeIuchio-Messrs. Ooub-
hS Dame, Kelly and Peltier
Servant 10 Vincentio-Mr. Davis.
AT the Providence opera House for the
week with matipees Christmas day ana
on Saturday. Mr. Charles Frohman pre-
r. IL
Marlowe I'm selections from their JOINT
Snakespearean repertoire
The opNning bill for Christmas after
noon and evening was The Iamlng OF
the Shrew" This bill will be repeated thls
evening. Tomorrow evening ana Ihurs-
day Twelfth Night, Friday eVehlns,
"Romeo and Juliet. Saturday matinee and
evening. THE Merchant OF Venice New
20 the Sothern- Marlowe repertoire TINS
season are Twelfth Night The ram
ing of the shrew" and The Merchant OF
Venice" Novelties 20 the contemporary
stage are "The Tanning Of the shrew' ana
Twelfth Night"
The week Is thus a notable one at the
Providence for divers reasons our most
conspicuous Shakespearean stars oner
quartet OF representative plays or the
masters, two comedies. a tragedy ana
melodrama Three OF the four present
both stars i'm new characters OF import
ance, the Merchant" being the most no
table I'm point OF interest since Shylock'
like Hamlet is n character that belongs
10 the masters and the mightiest Of the
stage. while Portia shares the queenship
OF stage women with juliet.
This generation may be said 10 know
not Katherine and Petruchio Except to
the oldest theatregoer who likes 20 hark
back TO the golden age. there may be said
20 be no one in the contemporary mind
with whom 10 compare Mr.. Sothern ana
Miss Marlowe in the lively character
etchings that they presented at yester-
days performances. They have the iel1
20 themselves and Il is a field that has
been untitled for something like quarter
of a century. Miss Rehan's name Is asso-
ciated I'm the topline Il e OF the records OF
the stage with Katherine Just As Booths
is with Hamlet-bLt Booths Hamlet is n
near and familiar memory so far as Prov
idence is concerned by contrast with
Rehan's katherine
The version OF the Shrew which yeste~-
days audiences witnessed. and which to-
nights audience will again enjoy. is evil
IDENTIFY made for Mr.. Sothern and Miss
Marlowe according TO the IDEAS which
their studies and stage craft indicated II
Is lively farce as originally designed
and Mr.. Sothcrn takes full advantage OF
II TO demonstrate through the Shakes
pearean medium his high talent for the
comedians task such as early made his
fame in the days when the most natural
course for him 10 assume upon the thres-
hold OF his career was TO take up the
mantle that his father had laid down.