| Show AMUSEMENTS THE WORLDS FAIR There were just about enough people in the house last night to pay the ga billif it were turned lowand if it were not for the respect we have for Mr Rices past achievements we should say it served him right KEENE TheKeeno sale opened well yesterday for all the nights probably the preference being given to Richelieu this evening Of hi performance of the wily cardinal aNew a-New York critic says Mr Keenes I Richelieu is to some a revelation of dramatic dra-matic work I is strong in its studied effects acute and telling in its interpret tion The play fairly teems with gems of thought and these have led to its abuse by alleged elocutionists and wouldbe tragedians I trage-dians The world long since named the 1 Richelieu of Barrett and that of Booth I great and it is by their marvelous conceptions i concep-tions that it has been judged But Mr Keenes impersonation is particularly his own In fact he has poured into the conception con-ception of the character of Armand Richelieu Rich-elieu a spirit of patriotism which dims every fault of cunning trickery deceit and unscrupulousness and makes it a It was born in Bulwers mind the very embodiment em-bodiment of a love of country Mr Booths Richelieu is the Richelieu ol history eliminating elim-inating the decrepitude Mr Kee es Richelieu Riche-lieu deserves a place in dramatic history as perhaps tne most scholarly and best interpreted in-terpreted conception on the stage of taday It is not fiction but it is the very grandeur of fiction and that is what Bulwer intended in-tended it for |
