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Show "Hen Nfiud" ut Homo. Tin' de.u rut deiiu f the auth'ii- in pit'riiting his Jtnvish plaj of "'lien lft';irl" upim thfl Hull Ltn sUM that it may be pnniciineed upon both' by the impartial analytical critic and the generous public, hi the placf whe:e it receited its birth. At the time of ill publication us ft dramatic poem, the tinui.n ptave it a lengthy review, and pronounced it aa a poetic ellurt worthy to live among the beat dranmtio works of the century, and decidedly rrsditahle to t:alt Lake city as ft homo production. At Troy, whore this play in its retised form wai first produced, it received very I fine reviews. An elaborate article in the Troy 7'imc.t, from the pen ol an , eminent medical gentleman an 'author and a Polidh Jew clones thus: I'Tue entiro construction is very ingenious. in-genious. Tho author has grappled with i very difficult theme, yet he : seizes lbs spirit of tho Hebrew race, ! with all the traditions and irnagiim-! irnagiim-! lions of tho poet, and with ft perfect knowledge uf the history and character charac-ter of tho time ho wriUs. It ia a he il'ituvre nT dramatic construction. In treating one of the finest subjects connected with tho oldest race on, earth, tho wonder of ftg'i, liO 1ms succeeded in painting with lovely colors, true to nature; and in doing that people justice, presenting pre-senting them, as they deserve to be, the admiration of the world for their endurance under persecution and their wUdom and faith;" Of Mr. Vinson's embodiment of a great Jewish type, the Troy H7n' said: "Mr. Vinson is the very ideal of Ben Israel, and gave us the grand national earnestness so characteristic in tho Hebrew race. He mmtsured his power with King Charles II in such a way that one- was drawn to tho wonderful intellectual aud moral strength with which he gains tho admiration of the kinc. He cave us a renovated picture, a compendium of wh it is the real character of the Hebrew nation. We hail him as the great "Ben Israel" wherever this play shall bo mentioned." men-tioned." And now both tho actor and the author have come "homo" to aflec-tioiutely aflec-tioiutely eourtjcritieijin on their artistic ar-tistic work, at once from an appreciative appre-ciative public and their professional brothers, previous to starting "Uen Israel" f irlber on his destined career. |