The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-30
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glance at the prsas aotie,s. 81 aash
this celebrated English actress has
received Ia Texas. proves hsF tn b"
ali thaf m. press aaeut claims. si5
-ifAiue Ia skirts Dallas and fofi
Worth have stamped their approval
upon hes are even As san anfonin
" aro. Austin and Galveston
Miss Craaley comes 10 Naxa
hAehi. Tor the first time aud she
wlll present. also Tor AID initial ap-
p.afanca "Hesiaa Gshier the most
powerful drama written by the Ia
, mons Norwegian novelist. Henrik
ibsen
Hedda Gahhier IL social play
,f the modern realistic school II ~
| 4 play of human life the If" hat
sa see around as everyday. and as
such 1t should appeal "a everyone.
II is dramatic but It is real and
| hat is the note that sbsen strove To
! strike in all hts plays Ihssn cinirn-
| I'd that his characters are universal.
| "tIndda is woman OF diseased
| miud with morbid and unheaithful
! views. utterly selfish and when frus-
| rated In her plans to gain her own
| ends victim to her neuosicism.
| At the same time, incongruons as II
| may seem. that Miss Crawley makes
YOU despise "Hedda & wes kness and
| couardico she makes the role
! triumph OF iuteileotuaiity
OF her portrayal of Hedda, Other
man Stevens. one of the leading cri-
| ties of the Pacific coast, says in the
Los Angeles Examiner.
Miss Crawiey loses herself in
the part, she is Hedda, enfolding the
character about her merging her own
personality in that Of Hedda, achiev-
ing that result SO completely salts
wing to the eve and the brain max
ing Won forget that she is Constance
Crawley and making YOU believe
that she Is Hedda Gabler With
marked beauty of conception she
| shows the struggle between impulses
that she does not comprehend and
| the iron bonds of conventionality
thai has kept in restraint the flam-
ing impersonality of a woman, who
IS consumed by the desire of know
ing. but who lacks the courage. We
have had many plays about the
| woman who dared Hedda dares not
but would if she dared. Her gradual
" increasing contempt for her hus-
band her desire to hold the destln-
les of man. the half regret that Low
borg did not work his will with her
before marriage, despite her men
| acing pistol: her consuming jealousy
Of Mrs Elvsted and her desire to
| save her husband from the shame
Of failure, which is consummated in
/, her destruction Of the aaas..'-s -N'-----'
-1or rOvboTg and her final merry go
ing TO her death, We're all pictured
jby Miss Crawley with fidelity
that was akin to if not genius it
self
| There are those, who say Ibsen's
plays are immoral That he was a
moral degenerate OF the latter class
IDr William Guthrie, noted Califor-
MIA clergyman, says they must be
Ihypocrites. Ibsen did not write ser
mons or essays. he wrote dramas for
men He cared nothing for women
| He tells the truth. He says, call the
feelings within by their right names;
If love is lust, call it lust, and get it
out. for it is no worse for men TO
call their sentiments Alright than to
| carry them pent up-it is better, for
| otherwise we do not know exactly
what is in us. | was shocked when
IL read lbsen first. Five years later
again read him and wondered how
could have gotten such an erron-
eous idea of his plays. lbsen is GER
tainly no more immoral than the
Sunday papers and the reading of
his plays will probably result in
| more benefit to YOU.
Society and club women will uu-
iouhtedly take advantage OF the
termination OF Lent and the closing
performance of the local theatrical
year to attend in large numbers the
appearance OF this much heralded
artist IN a much discussed play
The Fori Worth Record OF this
morning SAYS
| Miss Constance Crawi.y as
EverNman. which she created In
| America at Daiy's theatre few
seasons ago deserves all the extra
| VACANT praise which has been lavish
ed upon her Fer an hour and a half
she h. continually on the stage and
her physical endurance IN such a
part is remarkable Ne role she
might ESSAY could be more exactiug
than is his. as combined with Us
extreme length ts IN. continued do.
mand for sustained strength of act
ing nd reading. and the peculiar
Ivonstruction uf thr Middl. Ages is
hs uo means simple reading set Miss
lCrawl,t newer hiure at clouds ths.