Show I 1 1 1 2 7 i I 1 p kiil 1 4 1 0 3 41 4 xa le aa 71 4 M lit 0 0 S J ILI f F 3 nifa r V Z ROBERT EGBERT DOWNING downes I 1 the Tal talented valentel entel tragedian will appear in logan thursday svening Sven inq robert downin downing the favorite american imeri cark tragedian needs no introduction to this public from tile beginning of his career to the present 0 when I 1 beis he is in ili the mouth of everyone as tho the le legitimate oti successor in heavy heava tr of the great masters of the art per for lest ica t and mccullough mr downing s rise n ee in ia public estimation keeping pace with hasart his art has been steady and constant there have been no frenzied efforts at advertising no sudden leaps into startling notoriety I 1 but always faithful work well di directed effort and tile the natural result of satisfactory performances for mances his att art his reputation and his business have increased steadily and together keeping even pace with each other mr downings entire stage career shows the possession of uncommon common sense he began in the best school of drama the stock company when his taste for the historic art asserted itself he secured the position of call boy in ill john T fords washington theatre lie nas a i clever apprentice and did not remain a call boy long ile he was soon playing small parts then more important ones and finally became leading man of the company he made a tour of the south in the support of john mccullough and again of edwin booth his intelligent readings attracted the attention of the latter great artist and lovely character and booth asked forthe for the loan of the rising young actor during his engagement in new york that was the beginning of mr downings success for it drew to him the eyes of the lenders leaders of the profession as well as of the p public it was also tho the beginning of a friendship between him and mr booth that continued until the batters lat death mr downing was next found in the support of mary alary anderson playing ingomar acceptably to tier her barthenia ianneo c to her juliet and master walter to her julia then lie he played opio site parts parta t to 0 joseph jefferson in comedy next lie he had in the better class of the melodrama it was a pretty broad foundation which he had laid by this time fetock compardy coni com piny parly tragedy romantic drama comedy and melodrama d barna and lie he believed then that lie had received a training to give him the breath and depth and finish requisite to undertake the higher fornis forms of dramatic interpretation for himself 11 but u t even then he pursued a conser conservative yative course ile he did not attempt ev everything ry ft at once nor try to pro produce luce all the great plays known to tile the tragic stage in a single 0 seabon ft abon as many uni et stars ara do lie ile mastered one character at a time making a t nieces of it before lie atte nipped another ile he began in 1885 to atar at ah the gladiator T that hat in itself was a t large for tome lomu of tin the giants of the acta stage e have illuminated the role with their genius hut but though there were ganv many in ovations in hia lii ill ter pieta tion lion he compelled the critics to acknowledge that lie he wat cirio and intelligent and that moreover lie he had tab the 1 power of moving his audiences I 1 having mastered maet ered this part he be next took up virginius 0 here lie encountered even greater prejudice in some quarters for virginius had been ft a favorite role of the he late john mccullough 0 and mr downing ill made many changes from tho the interpretation of the artist and made the same points by different 1 and I ll 11 1 I original ginal methods ut lit in the end it MI as settled that though li b he departed from the traditions his virginius Vii ginius wa was forceful and aamir able Ing ingomar ornar was added to ili his repertory a recovery of his work rith mary anderson andersen next nest lie he turned his attention to shake sli cares julius caesar paying equal attention to the roles of brutus and antony and playing them alternately with credit ja jamon R in 0 U and pythias then the object of his study and to better understand john Ba baginis ninis play which possessed peculiar interest for him because of his earnst espousal of the welfare of the knights of pythias he went deeply into tile the study et udy of the history |