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Show HAWORTH MAKES A HIT ; IN NEW TOLSTOI PLAY More Than Shares Honors With Blanche valsh in ; "Resurrection."' : . 1 NEW YORK, Feb. 24. "Resurrection," "Resurrec-tion," a dramatization of Count Leo Tolstoi's masterpiece, has en produced pro-duced forVthe first time In the Victoria theater. In' this city. The play. Is somber, som-ber, tragical. It tells the story of a 'high Russian nobleman who wronged a girl, and who was afterward, drawn on a Jury which tried her for murder. She was convicted and sent to Siberia. i i There are four acts and a prologue, and the play is serious from beginning to end. Only in the second act is there a break in the monotony of seriousness. There is introduced a. comic Juryman, who seems a little out of place. A large audience witnessed the play, which was the Joint work of Henri Ba-talUe Ba-talUe and Michael Morton., So far as the audience goes the play was a success. suc-cess. Every act was liberally applauded, applaud-ed, and the strong, deep religious tone which pervaded the drama was a relief from the light frivolities which have been presented this season. ' Miss Blanche Walsh appeared as the star of the drama and did well, but her acjtlng waa overshadowed by the. excellent excel-lent work of Joseph Haworth. Miss Walsh played the part of the wronged girl, and in the first act, which is the strongest of the whole play, she does not appear on the stage. Haworth and the comic Jurymen were the principal' figures of the second act, and Ha worth's acting made a favorable impression and was a distinct hit. Haworth played the part of the nobleman. noble-man. The part well eulted his tragic style. . . The scene of the last act was in Siberia, Si-beria, showing the encampment of the exiles. In this act Miss Walsh as the convict woman did finely.'. The play has an extraordinarily large cast, there being be-ing thirty-seven named characters. Besides Be-sides the speaking parts, there are many unnamed citizens. |