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Show This Week's Amusements. Mr. Thomas W. ICeene, tho celebrated cele-brated actor, will commence a four nights' engagement at the theatre this Wcdresday evening in a repertoire rep-ertoire or tragedies and historical plays that will undoubtedly draw largo and appreciative audiences. In "Louis XI," which will be presented pre-sented on Thursday evening, Mr. ICeene Is said to havo scored cue of thegreatcstsucccssesothislife, and critics say. that In the title rolo the personal idenitty of Mr.Kecue is er llrely Iast,aud it nculd be next to Impccsiblo for one who bad seen him In any of his other roles of mattery, to conceive tbe self i-cclu-s'on he attains in Louis XI or to note any similarity to any other portrayal of character he has ever made. Bulwer's "Illchclitu" will la tbe opening play tomorrow night Ou Friday and Saturday nights the eminent tragedian will will appear ap-pear in "Hamlet" and "Richard III," in which play ho Is the peer of any man living. The realism which he infuses into the passions and violently changing moods In the character of the tyrant king that ho ivrsonates, at tlrats is simply terrible. Mr. Keene's success as a rtaractor bos dated siaco 1830, and from that time.to tho present he has stood at the head or ills profession in the interpretation of Shakes peare'd gtcat tragedies. |