| Show oh m SIlt til JlE ItY What Irving did In Macbeth he did more or I less In all the rol roles that he as assumed for tor us U Several ot of them Ilk like III his Shylock and were at first sight light biarre Something had hed been left Ift out that the convention ot of comfort de mended It was what we had agreed to call personal charm Ii a quality that sugarcoated moet ot of the small abilities from Adonis Diu to the reg regnant nant Russell RUNell Our motion ot of the I ly wu for tor the most mOlt part visual Sir Henry Irving had none or of the nees of optical I l On tile the con contrary he seemed to lu have bave a contempt for th them m for ut h he took not the slightest to sl smooth down don the excrescences of his hll It strung run and often awry person alii and very ver often his hll sinewy will made his hll punt nut But what he did do was to bring the Intro sic Ic and cooperative ot of the ensemble u ui to a new authority and aAd splendor of meaning that made per 1 81 or nu no a lit In the mere Inere matter mailer or of color lolor hl he taught us UI IL a mat great deal with that in III eesa ing Ine to be riotous became serenely nely rational The memory recalls the gray r surroundings In Joul XI with the thele tine le nare are of scarlet a one recalls an English with 1 h one oae royal can cae tUB tur blazing in It it The sense goes back balCk to tile the in III Venice just u as It ii traY Ira wit over U the wastes or of hyi pl to tile the one oae Mr or Fortuny that burnt itself Into the reo rao Against all the amu and profusion of our stage the nth Heath In his hll Macbeth still wears wean the supernatural weirdness that creative Intelligence can In alone rive give to paint but wu was so 10 and In III U its work that we afterwards ed It to the general effect of 01 the J quay With the same me of veracity that had caught the sI of Macbeth l cLeth h he caught the Intensely hu human human man and demoniac ot of the French In The play brought it own It at with It and then thell as we travel tack back to Louis Loul XI Si tb the mind Itself on Its exquisite gradation minutiae of a character that might ha have been painted b by A AC C Wheeler In Harpert Weekly |
