The Washington times., 1912-12-08
1R. 9]THERN GIVES
NEW RENDITION. i. Or |
HAMLET SOL|LOQUY
Two Stars Please Large
Audiences in Tragedy and
In AS You Like It,

Uore the largest and probably the
ost enthusiastic audience of the week
@ Cotnern and Miss Marlowe present.
Shskesneare's immortal tragedy Of
night. ''
II there 10 any one play In the Eng.
n.n language Of which one can say tina,
am mas been written that can be, It ID
hsism!et:" hsis Composed over three and Q
HsI centuries ago, this epic has come
sMn sr,ys tnrough the ages as fresh and as
its tS1 nro,,sa % ,its - On the night when II save
ne vertest schooiboy; its ciimsxes have
Sn Seen common property for generations
W., ~ ."ere is no Production today which.
~ nsm sn wen acted. can be depended upon
With its intensity and dramatic action
~. ..hamlet." Last nights performances
nay % said to have been weiI.nigh
Gives Musical Rendition. :.
n. sothern's delivery Of the famous
sohIoquy was easy, distinct, EN-.
phetic. and delightful. He. destroyed ut.
terry the usual lengthy effect Of the
soiiloauy and placed therein no much
nse ana pathos that the audience in
Voluntarily broke into uproarious ap-
pause. As has been apparent In all
vsr.o .r sotnsrn of.r,n productions the blank
the majority OF theater-goers-has been
entirely lost and In its stead has been
placed 2 plain. musical rendition Of the
nnee with the same cadences and into
nss. nation e 4 they were plain: everyday
saeisr to follow the. action Of the play
ana the rather archaic vsrbiage Of the
:. '::Hsmle." Is such one.p.rt play tha.
r. y Il: sr Nyr t S
a. Ophs!ta, has very subordinate role,
which. however, she acted with her
customary. skill and delightful intona-
ton. Rowland Blackstone. as the Grave.
which the master dramatist placed in
his tragedy; Malcolm Bradley made =
disnif,ed and forcefui Poionius. while j.
Sayre crswley's Claudius left little to
The Sothern-Marlowe production Of
As You Like IT, has been seen In
Warrington before, and that II has not
been found wanting Is attested BY the
Size ana enthusiasm OF the audience
that greeted the two stars at ysster.
moro endearins Rosalind than the one
whom yesterdays audience followed,
entrAnced, through the winding paths
OF the Forest Of Arden.
Audience Is Appreciative.
1t 10 trite to praise the "readinE'' Of
ths two stara Every one Is agreed that
Miss Marlowe has the most melodious
voiSe On, tho English speaking stage
and that Mr.. SOthern's rendering Of
blank Verse Is Incompatible. But the
MarIowe charm seems peculiarly the
Rosa1lnd charm, with all its playful.
ness, and all its piquancy. and all its
appealing Sirlishness. Again and again
the audience hushed ts irrepressble
sStal5sf; ss asss WAT Of if*.sS1n folc**.S oesa not
In the same why II showed it, appre-
eietion Of Mr.. Sothcrn's entirely salts
flying Jaques. One could feel II holding
on to itself after the II met q fool in
the forest" and holding onto the ap-
plauBe for which he gave no chance.
He was even mean enough to allow his
hearers no relief after the ''All the
worlds q stage. latter which audiences
have always bcep allowed hve seconds
for refreshnept, SO to speak. But Soth-
ern goes on so ruthlessly that his hear
eio hSve to subside.
Frederick Lewis Orlando ranks well
up with the performance Of the stars:
he puts into the part the attractiveness
Of manly youth, and reads his lines with
feeling and discretion. The minor char
acters were In the main played conven-
tionally with no new and startling ''busi-
ness" to disturb the audience.
JULIA MURDOCH.