| Show THE LATE ACTOR BARRATT ake late lawrence barrett was a great favorite with salt lake theatre goers goeas either alone or in company with mr booth his hie stige stage pictures s may 1500 not as ad lg la claimed have been inspirations 1 eions baij bij but t they were wonderfully woven and elaborately depleted depicted it rhay may be ia said a of him that what he be lacked ftc fi innate anti inti i ai genius feoff us he made up and more than mba made up for in exacT exactness riess minuteness perfect care and the most untiring industry As a shakespearean delineator he was not so satisfactory 4 as when presenting the masterpieces of other great I 1 minda as a a for example yorick af Fian francesca cesca da rimini bimini richelieu etc fsr M career was one of the most sue cessnu cess ful 1 artistically and financially on record and yet at the senith of his bis irne fame e when that and fortune too were fully secured ike he played as earnestly as inte intently and 44 carefully as though his foot were just pressing rig the lowest round of the dramatic ladder in this respect he differed from most of his predecessors and in politics mr barrett informed the writer that he was a republican but prefer preferred sed being regarded as an altogether national man he hoped to see pee the day when the southern quest question loin would disappear from politics and the people of the oon would once more look to the other side ot of mason div ans line for presidents denti a as s they did in the days I 1 long ong agone it having been a supposition that he was a freethinker or ii at least an advanced liberal ln in the field of ecclesiasticism he be was questioned regarding regard log this and denied it almost Indig indignantly he was not a communicant or member of any church but respected each for its ind individual worth actors are gei brally long lived poo people mr barrett however fell somewhat below the average of longevity of great artists having died at the comparatively early age of fifty three 41 |
