The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-11
New Haven Thcarer.

l Next Thursday night brings back to l New Haven, in the New Haven thea ! ter, the unique actor of the English speaking stage to-day Robert Mantell. Mir. Mantell will appear in three of his I greatest roles-King Lear, Othello and ! Handkerchief he did not appear in last season, and in King Richard III, in which his performance has been l compared to the greatest of all DOT trayals of that role, that of Edwin For rest. Indeed, when one looks back | over the field of tragic acting in this country and in Great Britain since the days of Forrest, there has been no oth- l CT player of the special equipment of 1 MT. Mantell for roles like Richard. However. so much has been said and written of him in this particular char acter, and he made SO bis a hit as the ! tyrant crookbacll when here last sea son. that the performance of that play next Saturday night may very well be i left to take care of itself
 King Lear" in which he will open Ithe engagement in the New Haven, Twill, in all respects, be a novelty to -Four theater-goers. It is not alone that MT. Mantell is the greatest living actor Iof the role of the mad monarch, but that the play was unused for a quarter of century before he took 1t up, about a year ago, because there was no actor of sufficient ability in this land to play l it. Even Sir Henry Irving, with all his l immense following and his lavishness 1 in stage mountin, was unable to make a success of his revival of King Lear, 7 so great are the demands of the part, (which MT. Mantell is the only living ac- tor able to play,
 i Of his Hamlet and his Othello they are in some respects, like his Richard fIII.-a well-known story, although not Ihere in New Haven. MT, Mantell was fonce complimented by Sir Henry Irving Ehimself for the human quality Of his f Hamlet-a quality which, in Irving's Town words, none of the rest of us is Table to get" As to Ohtello, Mir Man. Itel has been alone in this immense role ever since, in 1892, Lawrence Barrett died MT. Mantell makes of the Moor Ea lovable part-not one that inspires Ethe spectator with his terror, as did the I elder salyinrs. MT. Mantell argues that the Moor must have been man of uncommon charm to have won the Hove. all unwittingly, of a gentle, we'll \ bred Venetian like Desdemona, With her score of other suitors. And the Mantell Othello is no darker in hue than the sun-tanned Venetians who surround him. Here is an impersona- ton as full of the true spirit of TO- nance as though the ending were not one of the most dramatic and thrilling tragedies in all the literature or the acted drama.
 Marie Booth Russell, beautiful wom7 an and clever actress again heads the feminine side of MT. MantelPs big and clever company-the only organization speaking English to-day engaged in repertoire of the greatest plays ever penned.
 Needless to add, the production of each play will be magnificent in both scenery and dresses. William A. Brady. Mr. Mantell's manager, is al ways to be depended upon in matters of this kind.
 Owing to the great length of the per- formances the curtain will rise prompt ly at 2 and 8 o'clock, and no one will be seated during the first act
 QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER.
 In the four years that the great New England drama, "Qulncy Adams Saw yer" has been before the public it has been stamped by a succession of audi ences all over the country as the best, the sweetest, purest and most whole some of rural dramas" At its every representation the applause and laugh ter are almost continuous, and every fall of the curtain is the signal for an ovation to the players which is to be considered as a most emphatic indorse- ment of the play.
 Quincy Adams Sawyer" breaches no sermon except the eternal one of the golden rule. It Is a clean story strong in unconventional fashion, It's hurnor is natural and wholesome, but none the less convulsing; it's characters are types, not carricatures.
 These are some of the reasons for the unprecedented popularity of "Quin- cy Adams Sawyer" Others will be ap- parent to those who witness the play at the New Haven theater for one week beginning December 31.
 POlt'a New TheateR.