Show Italian Actor in l Shakespearean Roles Ies BY BV FRANKLIN FYLES New York York March 29 Shakespeare as spoken in Italy Itly has ha been heard in New York from the mouth of ot Ermete te Novell Noyel He has letus Jet us see ee too the motions that he makes in i depictions of King Lear and Shylock Critical opinions opinIons opinions ions disagree over oer his performances and I dont have to ghe give mine but can c n more Interestingly describe d cribe some of the famed actors acts oddities of mo motion molon motion tion lon He emphasizes the th insanity of Lear Lar more persistently than the regal rage rge the tempestuous passages being broken up with wih displays of an old oldmans oldmans oldmans mans weakness his eyes suddenly roving or staring vacantly Ya nt After f er his hl hi curse Instead of sustaining his stormy v rth to the fall fal of the curtain he collapses and Is borne bre away by at attendants attendant attendants In his later hater madness he plucks Imaginary bits bit of fluff or bugs If It that is what they are meant to be from his Interlocutors exactly ex cUy In the manner Junie McCree dope fiends In vaudeville the stunt that ends almost surely with wih the line lne Now youve got doing it I At the close of the scene with wih the mad Edgar Edgr he makes you understand that he believes beleve his staff with wih a bouquet of ot straw at the top Is Isa Isa isa a horse hore He lie puts it i between his hl legs the straw trailing and rides off oft with all al the dignity of a king kingon on a prancing steed at a great geat review Shylock he plays as a malignant old devil devi so 50 pleased with wih his trap set for forthe forthe forthe the Christian that tat he is constantly chuckling over Oer it It I would be unfair to say that he does not make more than this of the character but this leering spitefulness this grim exultation exult tion ton in his impending triumph domi dominates dominates dominates nates the characterization His most eccentric innovations are these When news of ot Antonio Antonios s misfortunes comes to him he gloats with roaring glee not the sinister infernal satisfaction of Irvings Shylock but an openly ex cx expressed pressed resse half childish half hal barbaric ex cx exultation He clasps caps his hand hands as might a joyously excited lad or maniac or idiot Finally Finaly as a a climax he dances for Joy literally dances dac and then when Tubal brings to him accounts of his truant trant daughters waste aste of his money mone in her honeymoon with a Christ Christian ChristIan Christian ian he flings himself on the ground gound and rolls rols over and over in agonies of Impotent fury In the trial scene he lie affects no humility but is lordly in manner with wih his confident exultation He approaches even ven the tte doge with only the most empty show of reverence reverence The Idea Is evidently to suggest such sucha a fulfillment of his greatest desire as ns asto asto to make him regardless of ot everyone everone nd everything v else Is lse For the tho th ot nt upon your sole but on your our sole lines he sits on the steps of ot a dias upon which standing behind an elaborate desk Portia Porta sands and he crosses his legs under him Here he re removes removes removes moves a slipper to whet his knife hold holding holdIng holdIng ing the sole in one hand and the knife knie In the other and glowering upon the company as he hones the blade This dais is In the te center of at the stage and throughout almost the whole act Portia Porta goes through a wealth of pan pantomime pantomime pantomime tending to suggest that she Is constructing her case on the spot Instead of at having gone over It with Bellario as definitely stated in the th text text But Signora Sigor Giannini turns over books bools and papers paper continually and with grow growing gow gowing growing ing excitement deliberately conveying the Idea to those who watch her throughout that she came to the court without an Ide Idea of ot a way to save An Antonio Antonio tonio and unexpectedly falls fals upon it there there When Shylock Is eaten beaten by It Ithe It ithe he Is not crushed as heretofore but waves his fists In hateful defiance and hisses Christians as he strides out out As Louis Luis XI X Novell Novel seems to me at athis athis athis his best not so much that he ho is better beter than in Shakespeare but that his dab elaborate elaborate orate methods are more consonant with wih melodrama than with wih the subtler de demands demands mands mads of Shakespeare whether in comedy or tragedy y His Ilis Louis seems to me about equal ln jn J value l lu and very similar In effect to Mansfields M Ivan the Terrible The Te oddity to note Is in his death scene a marvelous study In thrilling realism which misses the subtle significance of Irvings steady steadying steadyIng ing lag of the te crown on his shaky head hed Novell ovel Alien hel the teD Dauphin reaches reache r a hes to relieve him of the weight snatches the crown from his hand and clings furi fun furiously furiously to it it almost snarling at the boy The Tho predominant Impression is that of an old man dying horribly He has the hiccoughs of approaching dissolution and uses his mobile mobie face to express physical pain He struggles to live Jve and does not suggest the mental conflict of the Irving Impersonation His breathing becomes become terribly difficult and during almost a third of the scene his gasp gaspIng lug Ing and are arc almost the most remarkable study In disease I have seen on the stage His death death rattle at atthe atthe atthe the end is appalling yet it I detracts detract materially from the te mental and ad far more mor important Impression that the passing of Louis gave memorably in inthe Inthe Inthe the Irving performance Circus Is forced upon New ew Yorks atten attention aten attention tion ton this week In two ways and in two places The character for the principal comedian In The Te Grand Mogul is 15 a cir circus cus cue sideshow fakir and the latest devel deel development development cr in the circus cirus itself Itel is here with wih the label of Barum Barnum and Bailey Baney on It Let me Inc first tell tel you u about the entertainment that Is a play pIa To be b hypercritical about The Te Grand Mogul and get through at once with faultfinding let me inc ask ak why and ind ad oh ob why and ad then again wherefore wherefore Klaw and Erlanger demand from Frank Fank Pixley a new theme for the libretto to since they the producers producer are the I am amor amor amor or the weare wear In the theatrical business Pixley is as a I think one of ot the better libretto writers His jokes are arc grammatical ical his verses vere for the songs are fluent In rhymed conceits conceit and his humor would stand the test tet of ot newspaper print Nor Noris is that a careless creless suggestion of ot a stand stad are by which to measure the mirth of stage stag entertainments Sit down with today Herald Herld in your lap and a memory of ot the last last funny theatrical show in your mind and size sie up the new merriment in one against that of the other oter I think you will wi be b convinced that that with wih all al the themas mass mas of different things thing you have Jave got for 5 S cents cent In n the Herald jollity enough to outfit an act if I not the whole of the play But here her comes In the stagecraft which enhances the amusing value of matter mater de delivered livered livened to audiences by b clever comedians In The Grand Mogul It is Frank Fank Mou lan Ian upon whom the delivery delver depends mostly for effectuality is the short hor husband of ot a long wife Maude Lil Lii Lillian Li han lian lan Berri BertI Ber and their contrast contrat in stature Is 15 made to count for laughter In the play which first frt brought out pop popularly pp in New York Th ThE The Sultan of Sulu there th r was wa a song with the te chorus refrain of When Wen I First Met You which was one of ot the makings making of ot the show In that five minutes minute little Frank Fank and big Maude Lillian Bern Berl were the central couple among the of ot spooners who sauntered amorously Into ito and out of Consequently there is a par paraphrasing pa paraphrasing musical number numb r t ot f The he Grand Mogul Its Is refrain is Nestle Nete By My Side The tune une by b Gustav Gus av Luders Luder tho the composer who worked with witt Pixley Pley In InThe InThe The Prince of Pilsen PUs en Is an a Imitation of oC the he one In ta The Th Sultan of Sulu Salu Swu and d the te couples cuple sing n and cling the the same way wa In fond fod pairs pair which shows that tat In the the theatrical the l pastures nt not only ordinary herding h b sheep but too follow a leader eader over oe the walL But I started to tell tel how the shortness of ot and the tallness of ot his wife are ar turned to account account The song Is about abut a girls girl s shirt waist and a a mans vest veat that hanging on a clothesline through a night of ot changeful weather snuggled close to together to together gether alike alke in Instill still sti moonlight and windy wndy I I storm stor Coupled Couple in the chorus of Nestle I By My lIy Side the comedians comic head comes barely up to the sopranos comely comel shoulder houlder and ad the contrast when they the ties nea neatie n tie te causes half a dozen encores By this time those who know she she Is his hi wife have told it to those who dont d dont and so 0 the fun funIs Is prolonged Then the nt little husband comes on between two chorus horus girls girl of his own o n size and the tha big ig wife fe pretends to the antics ot hat are re exhausted n Mrs Mr M r X l Ms to some more nore mor recalls between two chorus men en of bt her own stature with wih the exasperated runt of a husband tagging taging on behind behind In playing to win wn at the theatrical cal game no trump card can be wasted wate but I 1 wonder if I Is really happy while taking tricks in which he be is jack low and ad his wife is queen high sk The scenes of The Grand Mogul are first In Honolulu where hula girls gins dance sensuously in a beautiful garden and two stranded circus cirus men make gren a balloon balon as ascension a ascension cension and disappear skyward with wih a party of aeronaut tourists In the second act you ou could guess it i If It I tell tel it I they descend on an Oriental O island where the comedian becomes the potentate reigns reig a while highhandedly and is then dethroned Of Ot course he has a harem harm of ot alluring girls girl and one ugly woman who pursues him of course coule he Is condemned to dreadful tortures torture of ot course a United States warship brings a company of ot ma marines manoes rines noes to save him with ith a patriotic song and chorus and the show is so 10 beautiful and melodious so witty and humorous that Now New New York accepts accept It gladly gla But why was it built bui on the familiar plans and specifications Perhaps because when PixlEY and Luders struck out for COr oddity In Woodland and made the characters humanized birds the outcome was un unsatisfactory Unsatisfactory satisfactory There is safety for Daniels Hopper De Dc Angells Angels and their kind in the hardluck monarch The Barnum Bailey circus has ha made Its It start here for 1907 19 Let me put you ou onto the new annual joke that is played on the audience before the show in the ring begins begin Last Lt year it was operated in inthis Inthis inthis this way A man in modish evening dress was rolled role into the great enclosure In an invalids wheel chair by a valet valEt A fash fashionably fashIonably dressed young oung woman walked be beside be beside side the vehicle and showed solicitous at attention attention tenton to its Is occupant occupant She had coupons for tor reserved seats in her hand and the ushers usher sent the party pary here there and ev everywhere e everywhere with misunderstandings colli collisions col and other hindrances until the whole concourse became interested in the he disabled efforts to locate himself for an evenings surcease from evenings whatever his ailment might be Then the valet awkwardly a tumbled him out of or the vehicle he belabored the fellow fellon with wih a a cane and the thing was exposed as a one of the stunts of ot the clowns assigned to tIm thu or ot Jollying the tho cowns people before the regular program Well el with wih a bag of or sidewalk pedlars peanuts In Il my pocket and a regret in my m mind I would have to do without pink lemonade those things not being vended In Madison Square Garden I sat and waited warily warl for tor Initial trick of the clowns A policeman sauntered to and fro Some one well wel up In a tier ter of ot seats cried Hi Iii Harry Har The officer was in instantly instantly alert A loud response rEsponse of ot Hello Helo John came from another section The Th policeman started towards one on outcry and then towards the other He lie knows how hov little a thing may cause a panic I ex cx explained to my wife ifE and he mean to let lot those fellows f causo cause a 1 disaster Good Goo men man that Again Agin the loud call cal by John and ani the response by Harry Hary rang out out The officer running to and Ire fro tr along the audiences frontage to discover the dis disturbers disturber of the peace Next he bounded up the steps into one of the crowded sec see sections and led two young men down don into the tons open arena artna Good work work I said to tomy tomy my mv wife Right then my pride had a hard fail fall The Te policeman and his prisoners had hada hal a violent tussle and they dragged dr Jed him not he of sight sight Fooled again Really Real that was wa the most salient new thing of the whole evening No doubt ot Barnum Baileys is stilt still the greatest show on earth and at no notime notime time has it ever been costlier but the ex excellence excellence carries caries I little novelty because beuse the utmost possible limit has been reached by tho the springboard vaulters because double somersaults are arc common and a treble somersault would probably break brenk its Is back by the flying Hying trapeze gI because the law compels compel them to eliminate danger from their feats by spreading nets net underneath so that they have to display their skill ski without peril peni perl by the trained beasts beats because the te accomplishments accomplishments of ot dogs monkeys seals horses and elephants cant cat be carried cared any fur further further further ther and by b the te equestrians because because pads are obsolete and bareback riding Is 15 no iio 0 longer astonishing When en I was a lad and no circus had more than one ring my dream of ambition was ws to be b Robert Stickney for he be threw on an anun unpadded padded un horse hOle and therefore was wan a cir circus circus circus cus Idol and my next net choice as a hero of ot my wild nd longing to duplicate was James Robinson and I 1 put him second to lo Stickney only because he was older smaller and ad less les handsome The Barnum Barum do doall doal doall and Bailey Baley show has eight men who all al that Stickney and Robinson used to todo todo todo do and besides that there are ten women whose lose horses hores have broad flat fat backs but butare butare butare are bare of oC anything save rosin to give a a sure footing This years ears show displays more than ever before the attractive feminization of the circus circus The various troupes of acro acrobats acrobat acrobats bats bat and ad gymnasts are fully half halt made up of ot women who do muscular mens work with the additional grace gace of their sex The Te old ballad balad of the daring dring young man on the flying trapeze would seem ungallant now for of ten who fling fn themselves through the air ar at the height of Madison Square Squar Garden six are arc lithe symmetrical and daring young women omen Here la is I a place In which beauty If combined with wih brawn has ha an advantage |