The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-29

In all my experiences have never
seen a Shakespearea play acted
so well in all its parts. Down 10 the
smallest. every role Is eXcellently act
ed. and the team work is exceptional
Gncommonlv good as her Katharine
is. Miss Anglin is even more sue
cessful as a producer The scenes are
kept alive with coming and going
of silent characters. never obtruding
on the matter in hand. but preventing
a moments tedium, The frollcsone-
ness OF the wedding guests Is as
spontaneous as the eager interest of
the mob 10 William Faversham's not
BILE Julius Caesar revival,
though Baptista's friends are so
boisterous in their rnerriment that
one questions whether they really do
belong TO the first families OF Padua.
However, that is doubtless due TO
their being seen through Elizabelhan
eyes. The scenery is beautiful, with
its solid looking canvas walls. often
hung with tapestries in rich, warm
colors. the Renaissance furniture of
dull gold and brilliant-hued brocades,
and the Hoods OF sunlight that
brightness. Yet this scenery is never
actually massive. achieving it's best
effects from suggestion rather than
detail or bulk. so that the intermis-
pace so essential to farce. The cos
tunes brilliant In colors and elegant
In fabrics. are like animated pictures,
For all this. Miss Anglin is bountl-
whose scenes and costumes for LAS
You Like II" show so few OF these
good qualities,
a lack OF space prevents me from
onlplimenting each member OF the
company individually. The more not
able successes were made by Max
Monteeole. as u Grumio as funny as
Msrceline. who kept the audience in
roars OF laughter quite forgetting
they were at n classic. Sidney Green
street. as a clownish Biondello who
was but little less amusing. and Full
Ter Nelish. making the small part OF
the Pedant memorably comic fig
ure Pedro de Cordoba played Lucen-
Ito picturesquely aud with ardor and
Harry Barfoot made a very human.
laughably pathetic person of Katha-
rine's bewildered. put-upon dad
If the Tired Business Man can
only be kept from knowing that The
Tanning OF the Shrew" is a classic, Il
should have as long a run on Broad
way as "Seven Keys TO Baldpate,"
ELLEN TERRY has pointed out
t. that Henry Irving maintained
that nc English speaking actor can
attain TO and retain a foremost place
In hlsirionic history without appear
ing In Shakespeare. Since Margaret
Anglin's first performance In Mrs
wears ago, no one has questioned her
position as one of the leading actress
es OF the period: and most Of ms have
not been afraid TO declare her great
the metropolis, she Is submitting her
self TO the supreme test, though in
her early youth she played Ophells,
and Portia with James ONeill and
Rosalind on A., fly,oyanisht E.ndn tour
When one speaks OF anything Miss
Anglin does. one starts on the high
places I mean. one takes II for
granted that everything is done as n
high Intelligence would do II and the
execution Is observsnt OF the best
technical laws. Or 10 put IL moro
succnctly. anything she does is sure
TO be the antithess OF anything ac-
complished by such popular beau
ties as Billie Burke or Mario Doro;;
Yet Is seems TO me her Rosalipd
shows loo much deliberation. Her
performauce-and the entire repre-,
sentation-appears TO be afraid OF
very courage to walk right up TO
Shakespeare as n dramatlst WIN
blood and vital mea ming In his veins
with Just as much ,, S,ignlnGannghe nee rIos Ios
KleIn-that made William Faver-
sham's Julius Caesar" a great Joy
and a popular success. AS iou
Like 1t" Is approa chsd almost as as
scenes arc gloomy, when not a5so-
luteIy dark. With the first word.
the note OF ira agedy IS struck. Or
iandos brother does not speak as one
| who would merely turn his Kindred
out and precipitate the ioveliest COM
| edv ever written. but stirs us up 10
something with knife In H..
! That Miss Auglin's Rosalind was
entirely adequate goes without say
ing. But II was not wnat W. had
| cvery reason TO expect. She slurrod
her points; she forced her voice
sI.e acted generally as though Rosa
lind were Juliet II AS You bke
| NJ" As TO bc accepted as the very
! sorrowfrl story Of an innocent niece
turned out OF doors by cruel uncle