Show py B tax thom who aasuma shakespearean pearean mes more particularly the heavier c characters harac are supposed to have 1 hi the dramatic or sphere l pt to pt hean U with vi hat the actors ought to be not necessarily hat they are they do not pay high prices or any price at all for the purpose of seeing the crea dioris of the immortal bard dismembered disfigured or otherwise rudel Y trea tod net yet coyly or slightingly candled they want to sea the individualities and hear the majestic lines transplanted from the rea d ing room or the absolute doma n of fialon anti approach that of the real as nearly as may be they are more exacting regarding Shaka peare than all other authors for the lie is tile great mae ter the crowned king and since be wrote as no man ever wrote before or they regard anything more or less than such acting as fully corresponds with the grand imagery wrought by the inspired author as something al in to desecration if not that very thing they argue and with reason that indifferent actors or careless ones can find a field broad for their peculiar purposes outside t he pastures and green in which none but cantus and devotion should be permitted to walk is Shake aster piece every ordinary or inferior actors study as a subject not beyond his it is a strange spectacle for the min d to create one of these makeshift make shift fellows tearing a passion to and serving the melancholy dine similarly while lawrence barrett at that time may be performing Laer teall in the booth occupies the former position by any means as the intelligent reader will readily understand that was the only play to w hie h ilia writer had the go 0 f seeing those great and friendly riv als and it worth all cost in money time and trouble it was an eventov event of a lifetime one that does not occur in lifetime to use mr barretta Barret tp own languages I 1 her 0 have be a thred methods of acting and only three upon the english stage since the re 3 t 0 r tiu of charles the bacon d p d nt ing whose reign the theartres theatres the atres w eze reopened in england after their long night of puritanism have been illustrated in our own time by forrest macready and the father lut of yesterday afternoon in salt lake there have been mod of these styles but the groundwork ground work remains chich admits 0 f space for individual freedom but denies completo Pom pleto independent 0 of ile old forms at times one style hw prevailed at others its ri val another claim of originality which one genera lion of players iles set up for its favor ito has arisen from the misfortune which yield a to the actor only tile re collection of his work during the hour of its performance so that be cannot fairly be judged by those who have seen and known him on the stage I 1 have never be held either of the great prototypes ex capt as great men are seen and vivid lyseen in the minds eye it that intuition which is born of re march and ripened by thus seeing and comprehending I 1 am disposed to class ed in his father and lawrence barrett with macready Mau ready forrest without a model without A I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 41 A ta 1 I 1 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 shallow ili both tile named rank is not rel errel to and hould not be for the same reason that balmer cannot occupy place of grandeur as shakespeare Shak speare to see or read bulgers writings and ap pre clato them leaves nothing to be imagined or suggested in the mind ilia work seems so ample so comprehensive hen sive so coin I 1 lete it is for the binjo the of literary and dramatic effect and conception goes not b it until is taken up by t ilia p recess of re As on ing if not by actual contact and analysis I 1 am led to believe that edin booths lavitol Is isy no means a perfect aln nation no actors Is or ever was but his Is inferior to ills athers to Macre adys in some e pacts to IlAri etts As a holes the Is complete the moody irresolute prince ap baars paars before tile aud lence in bold it ii in tile detail works the by play that a defect appe arii hero and there perhaps by the force of long continued repetition some of the lighter and less lines are spoken too trippingly and hastily and throughout lie creates ilia fin crossion pr ossion that his eye is fixed on his destination instead of the road lie is traveling to teach it ills the efro scene alere the countenance of the king is being earnestly scanned not very earnestly by booth at times I 1 thought the interest was not so intense nor his timax so grandly litas could have been done as in fact bas been done by the laertes Li ertes of this performance but these are merely spots upon the sun boothes Bo othis hamlets is a great performance for all that some portions of italeso far beyond the work of other actors that it would be folly to mention them conspicuous among those portions is noted the to the the mad s no h ophielia Op lielia tile terrific arraignment of ills mothers cond act and the last m hen the cabled prince already within the of death Is writhing in awful agony I 1 not the least of the many potent factors possessed by this W ader fully gifted high priest in the temple of thessis is his greatly expressive and brightly be arning eye ile looks its much as he says and in a moment of supreme efort such as rarely occurs in his hamlets but often takes place ilia lagola and bertuccio ilia eyes seem to go beyond tile power and attributes of ordinary organs of vision and to become for the time baing of a basilisk this D or rather was a peculiarity of his family none of whom except john wilkes pos a greater degree of optical ex dan mesmeric force than himself ile dignified and very exact a student as well as a benim and wears his honors quite becomingly in private life it was not a case in which barrett had an opportunity to stand alongside the reigning star on equal ground to be Int sith vastly othe riso up to LR L R t itaw it aw be said that figureheads figure heads pran Z existence is t making up of a play in vi aich the chief cliar acter stands on t from above and beyond all others inthe latter martof the tragedy however lie has some lines and situa eions nearly equal to the beat of those of the hero and to say that barrett does not make the most of them 0 O uld be to say that lie Is not himself in physical structure he is somei hat superior to booth in mental power and accomplishments he is probably ahead of any actor at present on the stage and in metaphysical force and vocal expression is the engagement ended last evening with casar success ful ind altogether agreeable one the increased rates of admission were not the fault of iho artists but of the local arrangements made the details of which if printed would doubtless be very interesting bittera tare but let that pass the two brightest stars in the theatrical firma ment have jointly appeared before us and it is extremely improta blo that we shall ever see them again under such circumstances if at all they have blied the light of their genius upon a coalmon ity willing to patronize and folly appreciating it we hope they are satisfied as we know the people are an d when in the future we look back to ilia time when we saw booth an d barrett working together in the earns pieces and felt the magle iffla once which only such genius as theirs can impart we will think of the roseate hues cast upon ilia lan through aich we are ward the final scene essat |