New-York tribune., 1912-07-14

tt,rt roo finally, naved the Scottish Chcftain The
English Arthur Bourcher and the Italian Ereie G No
vcli with their wives Violet NanDru8!l anu osI
Giannin have fulfilled Macbeth promises th0u8E
with small succcss-promises that looked less likely OF
result when thcv were made, than Sarah CoweI i-e-
Novnes However, it must be admitted that no one mas
ever taken Marie DreSSler announcement Oh HeI u!
Macbeth 50 seriously as herself. n
II has always seemed to me that Ethel barrymore
would make a glorious successor to Ada Netan d5
Viola When said that to her once she sad iiGr I tlu
Us made up her first ShakcSpearean play Would surrey
not be "Twelfth Night but Much Ado ABOUT
Nothing" or AS You Like It. The former seems to
be the voritc Of all for besides Miss barrymore MIS-
F,Ec, and Mrs Carter Maude Adams, Margaret
AngIin and Grace George are ready with it. Eleanor
Robson wished to play it; and Irene lanDru8h pre-
pared herself for a revival that George Alexander pur-
pOscd making and then abandoned. Anotncr tnaI was
near presentation was one in which the Beatrice was
~ haze been Miss BARRYMORE 70 the Bencdck OF her
uncle John Drew. .
EdWin Booth cndcavorcd to utilize Salvins prestige
to create a new tradition for the casting OF HaiGI.
When they made their famous co-starrlng tour OIcI-
Ia" of course allowed them 10 share honors equally Dut
the public demanded at least occasional performances
Of Hamlet" The Italian quite willing 70 SuDordi-
nate himself the role Of the Ghost but ths American
undertook to persuade him to play King CaudiuS' a
r,av fine character that custom shanetuLy neglect.
Booth felt that the example OF SalVni WOULD Drit8 Ic
part into its own again; but the signor Woud not DC
bothered studying its lines. So the example mas re-
,,,inrI unset When Lawrence Barrett starred with
Roo'h ne wasted himself the Ghost instead OF Dig
n;f,in, King Claudius; and the custom has been to
lowed bv Frederick Wardc, with Louis James and by
every, secondary actor in a stellar combination.
When T.. II. SOthcrn first prepared to snow hiil,cH
H Hamlet he determined TO succeed as tradition maker
where Edwin Booth had failed He engaged Edward
Morgan, then leading actor OF the LycGuni' 70 pay
King CIaudis and restored the lines, which are gen
orally cut unmcrcifuly. But he delayed his produc-
ton half a year and when he made II Mr. Morgan was
no longer to be had. However Mr.. Sothern has not
abandoned his determination He and Julia A4rIowe
contemplate occasional performances OF Hamlet, with
the actress a, the Prince; and then Mr.. Sothcrn will show
wha, can be done by playing King Caudus himself
WIEIEN Mr.. Sothcrn has accomplished that reform,
w ne might turn his attention 10 PolOniuS; tor oDV-
o,v that instead OF the Grave Digger should be the rS
comedian role Indeed when Constant Coqucln toured
America in 1900 with Sarah Bcrnhardt he prepared TO
Dla, polonius 10 her Hamlet. Whether il mere az
ness or the discovery that American tradition gave the
a, the last moment By the way speaking OF Miss
Nlrlowc and Madam Rcrnharlt Hamlet. Julia
Arthur was about 70 appear in that male character
when She married and retired from the stage nat Is
another memorable performance that wcundouOtedly
shall never hl' a chance TO see.
\ Hamlet that We surely never will see Is Richard
Mln5icll's. II was his greatest ambition 10 play the
part OF course it may more less be said TO be the
ambition Of every actor Arnold DAILY went 50 far as TO
gather hi; cast Of which rccolcct more than that
Ch~ytl Icrnc was 70 have been the OphcIla and the
late Isabelle UrQuhart the Queen Gertrude. Not many
people knew and fewer still remember, that Henry
Alill.r's ambition carried him still further. About ten
wears ago he played Hamlet IN cw srall towns, and
fields experience might have been the same had he not