Show I Amusements Amu e I c I II I I I The play 11 known to 18 t the world as aa Henry Kenry vm VIII wa wu was written by Shakes Shakespeare Shakespeare peare under un r the name of ot All Is True In a way the tilt title was wu euphonious For or oro or o all his plays Pl ys the th great t bard boasted that unto this one ne more than any an other ate hh hi quill had bad bequeathed the tho virtue ef of historical accuracy He regarded the tel fall fa I of ot Welsey the tee trial and divorce or of and arad the execution of or Buck ingham when his hi pen bad finished as exact historical reproductions And nd tor r that reason Henry enry VIII Vin VinIs Is considered the greatest piece of ot har in hi Shakespeare albeit that the picture of o King Henry is la far tar milder than an t the mass of lust and blood bIo that cold history brIngs bring to our atten aUen attention tion tien Shakespeare would have been faith ful to his scheme until the bitter end bu for the circumstance that the maiden n presentation p of his bill play was wast to t be before Elizabeth Henrys daugh daughter ter and there was waa a yawning doubt as 85 asto asto to how that woman might have re reC received C h ed a charcoal prot type of her an ancestry ancestry So in hi the play we find a blus blustering blustering noisome monarch whose who e chief crimes were susceptibility to craft and cunning and insatiate selfishness s but not the monarch upon whose hoe log Jog sev several eral thousand bloody blood events were chronicled d nor yet rt the The bard indeed dealt dalt mildly with Hnry The ThC Th play covers loe only about two years of his black and almost interminable reign r ign and catches him bun at the a se ap of about 40 It principally concerns the sinuous Cardinal Wolsey that cunning c avaricious and the Imperious im rlou bu womanly Katherine whom Wolsey VoI ey sought to divorce from Henry at the be heat hest of b his hi J royal muter master The play might be called call d a chronicle history with three catastrophes varied by a mar marriage marriage ge a divorce and lId a coronation and ancl terminating with the baptism of r a achild achild child majestic pride and her tremendous struggle against the fate she know knows to be inevitable the rise rlee and fall of Wolsey her implacable foe the Ithe execution of Buckingham and the final triumph of the kings selfishness s provide some BOrne of or the most mo t remarkable scenes in Shakespeare These scenes occasion many of those thole sublime speeches which have become ao so fa familiar familiar millar Wolsey Farewell a tang long Ion fare farewell farewell well to aH alt my greatness being a brilliant ease cue in point It Is the beauty of the lines line rather than the dramatic situations situation of which there are virtually none that appeal to t the rne listener and particularly the student Of the production witnessed ed last night with Madame Modjeska and Louise James in the two great parts Katherine and Welsey too much could not DeN be said Mid 14 It was a performance such as one witnesses only onh too seldom The madame who these many years ha has stirred audiences audience to mingled tears terror and admiration falls fails fal not a hairs hairsbreadth hairsbreadth breadth from the rare raM picture of or the divorced sharer of throne In the trial scene and again in the theu subsequent u interview with Wolsey and she Bhe rose role to superb heights lEer Her reading r lagoC of the denunciation is thrilling And what good may not be said of Mr James Jame conception conce of Wolsey His art in this thi instance manifests manifest tl itself in I repression lon Even in the stormy stonny scene between the cardinal and the lords I leading up to his farewell to ambition he swerved not a particle from the method which gives give to his bis scenes of sanctification such fine e effect It 1 indeed one of the greatest things Louis James has done Hackett the conscientious co young actor who has hu heretofore cre created created much favorable comment by his work is ill an interesting study as u Henry Hnry From year to year his work shows show marked improvement Mr Cooke is in all ways way a satisfactory Buckingham B The company as 88 a whole is much better than the support given Modjeska last season euOn which was to be hoped and expected and Kemper are noted for their elaborate The Theatre atre Th stage stape sta has hu rarely been the field fieldor of or more scenic grandeur deur than is 18 put before the public in lit Henry VIII I Tonight Macbeth is the offering anti and there is every indication that an another another another other brilliant audience will greet the two stars star Mr James will do Macbeth and Madame Modjeska Mod of ot course Lady Macbeth Mr Hackett will be seen as Macduff Henry VIII VII win will be re repeated pasted Wednesday night Mary Stuart is 18 tomorrows tomorrow matinee bill For Her Sake a Russian melo melodrama melodrama melodrama drama full tull of nihilists nihilism knouts and a villain with a face tace full fuH of black whisk whisker whiskers er ers era played to tu a full house bouee b ule and a cou couple couple coupie pie of full soldiers at the Grand last night The company furnished the thrills and the th soldiers supplied the comedy Once in a II season however would suffice as far tar as a their peculiar kind of humor is 18 concerned e their ef efforts efforts efforts forts being more original than elegant For Her Sake was wu a surprise s to most of those present for although the play has bas a number um er of intense fea tea features features tures it is artfully far above the aver average average average age melodrama The story stor is a logical one the company with one or two ex exceptions eXceptions exceptions is capable the costumes and scenery are new n w and a d what is more the leading man and woman are both handsome and still more remarkable for a popular priced production they I are clever llever Walwin Woods as ae Prince Valdimir was ready at all aR times to breathe hot sulphur in any part of cold Siberia for Olga his sweetheart played ed by b bJ Jesse Jesee J M Cunningham He loved her with an ironbound love but Ivan Ivanhoff alias alia aU a police spy with a heart of gilsonite gi or some something something something thing else elite see ee it that way and for three acts and a half baIt worsted Valdimir and thereby brought down upon himself elt the wrath of or the afore aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid said soldiers in the top box Grieg was ably assisted in his vil vii villainous villainous efforts by Ella Marble as Princess the mother of the suffering Valdimir who whoso so far forgot her motherly love as to connive in tn a scheme to send her abused son to bleak Siberia in all of which they were successful thus in increasing crossing creasing crea the agony ap y of the sympathetic soldier in the top box But when cruel Grieg ordered the trembling Olga to be stripped to the waist and flogged it was only the Inter Intervening Intervening vetting distance that saVed aVed him flon the wrath of the outraged occupant of f the elevated seat and the soldierly joy was completed when Nicholas the serf another victim of the ing lag wrath of ot the terrible Grieg struggled tru up from his death couch more of Gnep YS work and put pu t the e finishing touches louche es to the villains career Ner c of aughtr Other Ir i HWe tIt cast cat are general f Tier Chumly Hargrave Margrave and Lieutenant nt Ros tow ww by William Marble Ben A Wil Williams Williams liams llama and Alfred Britton arl Millicent l lEvans Evans as the American heiress was Vas bright and bewitching The play made madea a good impression lon and will be repeat repeated ed tonight and tomorrow night flight with the usual Wednesday matinee The follow following ing will be played on the tabernacle organ this afternoon at by Professor Processor or Mc McClellan McClellan Clellan in honor of guests of or Mrs Em The recital is open to the public and the doors will ill be closed und un until ti d til the i iS finished 1 Prelude to act III Ill of Lohengrin Wagner Wagne 2 a i radi ong ung bJ t b j Gavotte Thomas l i c Spring Song Mendelssohn 3 Hosanna GranIer Mr Ir Goddard 4 ta fa a Capriccio Capri to b Hymn of the Nuns WefT Wety c Male fale Chorus I 5 March Wag Wa r Star StarS Spangled angl d Banner The sale of seats for the win witt in Opera Ora company comPAn begins this mom morn morning morning ing at the Grand The return of this tb thi popular organization organisation to the city prom promises rom lass to be successful to a degree Te operas to be sung during their sIt stay att are Merry M MT War vu y yI night I ht Carmen Friday nIt night aad Jack and the ht 4 talk stalk t Saturday stu night and matinee The seat sale for the Lucy Lu oat s O CS re recital dial cital Jan 9 opens today at the The Theatre Theatre Theatre atre M Ward te Is in the city ahead of Coon Hollow an AR early attraction at atthe 1 the Grand Tomorrow afternoon and night at t the u uA A Assembly ball hell Margaret Barry RaITT we the be bewen wen well Known dramatic reader reder will give gle interpretive recitals Miss Barry is 18 unquestionably the greatest artiste arti e in I her line since e the days of the late sad lamented Mary Iary In the t th afternoon Mla Mice Barry BaM will wUl give read readings readIngs ings lags from the Ue works of Eugene Field FleW and James Whitcomb Riley and aRd in the Ue evening her will bill vIll consist oot ot of the chariot race and the angel and the shepherds from Irum General Lew Wallace Wallaces BenHur act I scene 2 from Shake spears spear Merchant of or Venice sad lid se Ie selections from the works of Kipling Victor Hugo Rooert Brown Brow BrownIng Bro Ing lag and Oliver Wendell Holme HolmS This Thi will wilt be Miss Barrys Barry last appearance in inthis inthis this city |