The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-11
VIRGINIA HARMED AS ANNA
 KARENINA.
She Will Create for America the Great

She Will Create for America the Great
 French Role of Tolstoi's Heroine.
 The biggest sensation of the present theatrical season in Paris, Anna Ka- renina, the triumphant dramatization of Count Leo Tolstois World-famous novel of the same name, will be pre- sented for the first time in America at the Hyperion theater, this city, on Fri day evening, April 19, with Virginia Harmed in the highly emotional title role. This stage version of the won- derful masterpiece of the great Rus sian writer has been holding the boards at the Theater Antoine in Paris for a remarkable run of 125 nights, most unusual record for a play nthe French capital, and bids fair to continue in- definitely there. Madame Gegard, who is enacting the part of Anna in Paris, has been hailed as the Russian Frou- Frou."
 It will be by all odds the most in- tensely powerful character ever at- tempted by Mss Harmed in her entire career. The play itself is a massive and magnificent production, consisting of five acts and seven scenes, and its Interpreting cast will number nearly seventy-five people. The scenic set | tings themselves are exceptionally grand, one act representing the race course at Tsarskoe Selo outside St. Petersburg, with the thrilling accident at the hurdles in Vronskys ride upon bto Tbie ic n glitter of uniform and regalia. An { other scene represents the suicide of the passion-ruined Anna Karenina when she throws herself under the huge wheels of the locomotive. The horrible tragedy itself is not actually seen, but the illusion of the passing train, with its locomotive and eight coaches dash ling across the stage under clouds oi smoke, will be, it Is declared, most real. { iistieally represented. In Paris this H. fusion was so excitingly real that the audiences were completely carried away by the tragic effectiveness of this eli. max of Anna's self-destruction. This illustion alone will require one of tho most intricate and colossal pieces ot mechanism ever used in a stage pro. duction, eight operative engines alone being employed.
 | The drama itself (written by the eel ebrated French playwright, Edmond Guiraud) is said to'be of the hlghes intrinsic merit as worthy footligh setting of Tolstoi's masterwork, an( not to depend upon its sensational seen
 ic features for It's notable triumph. I is in the main powerful and pictur
 esque portrayal of that romance O guilty passion which ranks among tn
 worlds greatest romances, and whicl established Tolstoi's world rank as novelist. The large cast cannot b. quoted in full, but among the principal
 will be the following:
 Alexis Karenina. Albert Brunini Vronsky ........... William Courtene, Stlve, Anna's brother. Albert Ora Prince Cherbatshy ... George Riddel Nlcnolas ..........,.......H Henry CoWal
 Anna Karenina Virginia Harne
 Dolly, Stiva's wife. Mabel Blanchar
 Kitty ..,.....,...........Ma Margaret Dun
 Serge, Anna's son..m.. Foster William
 Princess Cherbatshy !. .. Maude Grange
 Countess Miagkai. ... Ann Warringto
 Lydia TyanoVna. a...........L Lillian Paig Princess Somatoff. ........,.. Mabel Hai