Show Barrett as Lauciotto To the Salt Lake public Francesca Fran-cesca Da Rimini will be a new play for which reason the following reference ref-erence to the piece will be read1 with interest I Lanciotto is the crowning stone of Mr Eamtia caoor not only in his acting act-ing of tho part but in the brilliant treatment treat-ment he baa given the play making it one of tbe most effective and enjoyable of highclass performance one in which art site and popular interest en equally croufed To Mr Boker the stage is in debted for tome lem rkable literary work to Mr Barrett for a play worthy to stfnd among the few pieces worthy of a cultuicd age Lanciotto is altogether a great performance and it paces Mr Barrett whera no comparison can irjure mm where none of his compoUoB con surpass him In the quiet force which characterizes the impersonation save in the naturally exciting scents bo shows that the late years have given him a command over hia nervous energy wbch < Yorich dd not fhow arid which is most valuable In thesineulnr and exceptional com bination of emotions which the great bert d Hunchback must necessarily delineate when he feels himself almost loathed by the woman he loves and betrayed be-trayed by the brother ho has confided tho intensely dramatic spirit of Barrett shows itself to ba truly and purely artistic artis-tic In declamation no lines he has ever spoken have been effective so strong ly so sympathetically operative upon an audience Tbe impersonation ia neither meretriciously complicated nor aSe2 edly simple Whatever mannerisms Mr Barrett has whatever peculiarities of movement gesture or action that have militated against him with some critic his playing of Lanclotto ia so thoroughly thor-oughly finished that no one woulJ in this case urge them against him Louis James as the Jester is a worthy sharer of the honors of the performance His malice is not HO diabolical as to make one shudder but it is the malace of a vindictive and unscrupulous villain cloaking a venomons epiiit under the lightness 1 fool His glee at the discovery dis-covery of the love between Paolo and Francesca is not altogether fiendish He is a man through it all and when he tells Lanciotto the story in the camp the Ecene between the two is one that compares with some of tbe accepted greatest on the stage Miss Walnwright is almost as good in her character of Erancesca and Otis Skinner makes a moat appropriate Paolo The cast the setting the drcre are all unusually the and Francesca da Rimini has covered Barrett with more laurels than any piece he has ever been seen in It is doing a large business and the actors are recalled every night half a dozen timer I |