The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-02

sorrow. The moving effects of the scene. the elements which gripped the heart of his hearers was the voice, the feslMl5 of the actor. The words were simple. The dialogue was simple. You never loved" slowly charged the young man.
 You forget yourself, Carlos" was the dignified reply.
 'But you never lover"
 You must remember yourself. Your father. the King"
 But you never loved"
 And yet it was one of the most ef- fective scenes ever played out The first, You never. loved" was only a sorrowful, slow statement of facts. The second was a suggestion of profound grief, a reproach. a note of hopeRess suffering. The third was a fierce charge of unfaithfullness, a heart breaking cry of agony at deceit Richard Mansfield had come into his own on the Montgomery Theatre stage. The prince was in his realm, the foot l of the king was on his native heath. The best living actor was giving ex- pression to his art.
 And still the fiercest. the most thrill ling and the most appealing bit of act- ing of the evening was yet to come. A strange. weird role is that of Don Carlos, the unhappy hero of Schiller's tragedy. Misfortune has marked him for her own. An irrepressible. an un- controlIable love for the young queen, has come into his ardent heart and driven out all else. It is a shadow of sorrow to him. He is a helpless spawn 1 in the hands of fate. He is hurried re- morselessly from one great sorrow to another. from grief to grief His very l love has enervated his will and made | him an indifferent victim to intrigue. | I.. ( A0kk |, a.. manhood.
 | Mansfield makes him a touching ap- pealing figure. The spirit of the great actor fills the stage. Still, it Is more | than acting. The Don Carlos the au- dience saw way young. with shapely l leg. rounded cheeks, full lips and wavy hair. but the lips were dropped and l drawn, the voice tired and hopeless, and every step told of the unhappi- ness that overwhelmed but could not 1 be avoided.
 The mountain tops Mansfield attained 1 in the death scene of the Marquis De Posas. He leaped to the peak, and grasped every thunderbolt of emotion, and about him flashed every lightning ! stroke of feeling and fancy. His friend had been killed. the man who had been to him as brother. Of all | that had surrounded the prince he was the only true friend. Of all the others he alone had borne help and service to the unhappy prince. He had rejected | bestow that he might help and save the friend of his boyhood. And he. even as | he accomplished that servie, was shot | from behind. to die like 8 dog
 All this, all this in the burning words of Schiller. Mansfield summed up to reproach his naddened and ire | sponsible father, the king who had | had tha dead d0na 0yar tha h0dU Of his friend the wrongs and the crimes, | that he had suffered, and the crimes 1 that caused the death of his one | friend because he had done the prince | an act of kindness and of gratitude,
 he brought the damning charges to | the king, trembling with passion and
 grief until the very sword he held In | his hand clanked and rattled.
 Pointing to the body he exclaimed: | Look among strangers for your son; l here, here is my kingdom"
 It was n splendid climax to the even-
 ing's work of Mir. Mansfield. Nor was l the audience slow to appreciate it. He
 was given call after call. But for that
 matter the curtain was not permitted | to go down in peace at the end of any
 single act. The audience was not con | tent that either Mir. Mansfield or the
 excellent company supporting him
 should go without knowing how highly l Lnetr WOTk was le4u.
 It was in truth an organization oi exceptional talents, this supporting company of Mr. Mansfield. 1 Miss Florence Rockwell was tho | queen, and right royalty she looked thu part. She was the young woman wit. | the splendid red gold hair and she looked as high bred as any queer | would care to, look. And her playing was quite in keeping with her looks It was thorough. effective, md intelli l gent throughout.
 | The cratic. half-crazed Philip of Spail
 was played by Mr. Fuller Melish It was l splendid piece of wcrk. The jealous, un- | happy, irresolute Philip griped the attention l of the audience. whenever he was on thu
 stage. MT. Mefiish is quite capable of play ing resDc nsible part, as a foil even to sucl l an actor Mansfield.
 An intelligent an1 sympathetic bit of worl
 was done by Mir. A G. Andrews as the
 Marquis de Posas
 Tho work of Miss Eleanor Barry as thu
 1t. Miss Barry has 8 strong emotic nal fore
 10 draw upon. and when she makes draf
 upon it she k certain of being effective.
 Mir, Leslie Kenyon somewhat of
 disappointment as the Duke of Alva. H.
 did not seem Up tc the standard af the
 other memehrs of the cast. In that he rathei
 show tho role cf the Duke to be something
 cheapy melodramatic.
 The play was staged in Mansfield's way
 which means that it staged artisti-
 cally. costly and sumptuously; which mean
 that if was put on with every attention tC
 correct detail. II might be said too tha
 some Of the stage pictures shown were noth-
 ing short Of srlerdId.
 W, T. s.