The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-15

c,,kesrcarr's sublime Tragedy Given
Here With an Appropriate Etc.
-Orislnnl Readings q the Lines That
Fan TO Siop over the FoOtllshts.
IN tie wake Of phalanx Of press agents
under tie redoubtabe leadership Of the
.sn of tie ciGft, JeTome EGdy-Al6ora
s5em a hi trionic genius Of the Wost
and ff-r NATURE. vest rday afternoon
scaled m citadel Of Broadway in the cfarac-
ter Of Hamlet The utmost that Mr.. Eddy
and lis myrmidons were able TO achieve
vas one inrer Of publicity. Judging by
the comments Of those who foregathered
Yesterday afternoon at the New York Thea
RE Aldora Shem himself has filed the cup
10 overfowing. Here's horing that the
drsugbt will be as sweet as copious.
II Is idle to accuse Aldora Shem Of un-
derratinr the magnitude of his task. In
the first place refusing all temptations OF
the tAptsmal font to belong to any other
sex. Adora is a man-no slight conadera-
ton nowadays in this matter OF Hdmiets
And he openly expresses the conviction
on the cover II his programme, that this
tragedy OF 81 alespeare's Is sublime
Furthermore he assures the intending
spectator that It is presented with appro-
pirate scenery, accessories, &c BY all
means. let US have our Shakespeare with
an appropriate. &c
shenl T. as dark Of visage as his own
brother. the second son of Noah. Onoe for
all those cri les are routed who maintain
that the melancholy Prince was blond.
Here ia a theatrical tradition dating back
10 the ark. and supported by etymology to
boot. for who was Hamlet II not The diminu-
live son of Ham2 A local amateur actor
Of fame. L Is true, expressed the belief In
IN entr' ce hat Shem is Spaninrd, and the
Hamlet Of Stem a Spanish Ham I'm let.
But he is much nearer thantha t)lis hero
in the kinship Of etymology and of blood
Aldora has, in fact, made the part his own.
The Hamlet Of Shem is a Shomlet, individual
and AuLen ic. his own independent crea-
ion. the only really Shemlet Hamlet the
world has ever known.
Descending from the sublime 10 the
particulars, it must be confessed that the
culinary smile Of the disc rnlng amateur
Is not III advised There is something
undulG mt. soft and ruby about the Shem-
komiet that ca met otherwise lie adequately
described. II sloT es On the sta &c and or
n with the CELEBRITY md precision Of molten
eggs IN a rl,tter On Mr. Shern's lips
the sriced and me- ty content Of ths rart
hecoue an inGriculate coze that uld not
be oroierted beyond the foot.igits with
anything short Of a soup spoon Those
in the nth row set scarcely n,orsel OF its
sunset colors Ct fluent blood and geld
Tlst was pity. for the rronunc alton
Of Mr.. Aid IA Shem was no less remarkable
than his enunc ation. There are me re
things in heaven and earth than were
dreamed q in Hordtio's PHI osophy-some-
thing like that, NJ east. is the usuai reading
# the ines. Mr. Shem pronounced the
final word fOSSy-fv No apter and mora
discriminating & d ution has teen made TO
Shakesr eG 'en i re since Mr. Edmund Rus
sell inter- reted the same pert two years
ago byappsaring with a rip in his cable hose
that exposed the pink AS the French actor
exT ressed it--skin Of tho part D dnot that
read ng for the drst time Illustrate what
Opheiid tolls Us. that Hdmiefs hose and
sortors were in no seemIy condition? And
n q play ohsessed by ghost. is not "a
ghost,es4 ph losorhy mere hossy-fy?
tn reas n Of 9th re Of llr Sh ms omen-
dltions is less frr7rent on the surf = /
/ mrs. Thus. The urd disco vcIed count v
, ON whose bourn no traveller Nouns
becomes The undiscovered country /
from which no traveller returns" But |
tere is much more within the skin Of |
any sublime tragedy than can he empt asized !
BY the most indicate hose or even by the !
most delicate pronunciation.
According to the discriminating pro-
gramme Mr. Shem was supported by |
Miss Helen Hawthorne in type only second |
to the type Of Mr.. Aldora Shen, and fur |
thormore by a company Of rare excel |
lence, in very small letters. Mas Haw- |
thorne was the OJy'hd She was pretty |
20 look at, and inter preted her lines in the |
highly intellectual spirit of East BIaintre. !
Mrss
The c0mrany of rare excellence included I
John Malone as the King an Barton Hi |
as the Ghost These are actors of the old /,
school familiar by personal association !
with TIE RrrfH OF Edwin Booth. D )ubt !
less in the seculsion Of private life they |
w!ll d.ate unon tie particulars in which ]
t1is odern Interpretation excelled that Of !
bvgone days Possibly also they viii be |
ordinary apparit,on in tie Rialto.