Show Xot According Shakespeare The question sometimes arises whbther a actor can successfully depict de-pict one emotion while feeling another I once saw poor John McCullough give a striking exhibition of his ability to L do this He was playing King Lear I forget wherie but that is immaterial I happened that I occupied a seat I very near the footlights I afforded i me exceptional opportunities t observe l ob-serve the play of his features and catch S everything that he said I I had been further back I would not have had this story t tell He W rendering one of the most I pathetic passaea in the play and tears real tears weife trickling down his cheeks The orchestra was endeavoring en-deavoring to enhance the pathos of thb low But McCulloughs acting did not need any artificial aid I annoyed him exceedingly During a pause in his soliloquy without so much as a 4 shadow of a chang taking place < n the expression of heartrending sorrow and misery stamped on his face he said and it seemed to me that he didnt inovte his lips t say It Stop that dd fiddling IIi I-Ii voice couldnt be heard except by a few who were immediately in front of him The leader of thi orchestra S or-chestra heard it and n look of pained 01 surprise came into his face but he t stopped the fiddling at once The great mass of those who filled the theatre and soon broke forth fle thunders of applause had not the faintest suspicion that while McCuI Icugh had touched their heat to the te quick by his supjsrb portrayal of the su1b old kings grief and misery he had ha really been madder than a hornet Nl w York Herald hornct |