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Show "The Auctioneer." "The Auctioneer," in the hands of David War-Held, War-Held, who created the part is a complete triumph of artistic character acting. The Jewish character charac-ter on the modern stage is usually a "burlesque replete with absurd and improbable horse play. But Dave Warfield's Simon Levy is far from that, it is clever in the extreme, it is brilliantly humorous, humor-ous, and the real and touching pathos ho creates in the part makes his work unique among actors. It is hard to be extravagant in praise of this wonderful star Belasco found, and to whom he gave a play so perfectly fitted to the man, containing con-taining all the lights and shades and local color which might fill the life of the Hester street dealer deal-er of today. In expression, in pose, in speech and constant action David Warfield is a wonder in dramatic art, and well named the greatest character actor on the American stage. And with him in "The Auctioneer" is associated the inimitable Mrs. Bates, who in the role of Mrs. Eagan increased her popularity, and added her fame made in Chim-raie Chim-raie Fadden and at The company assitii Warfield is perfect, the Sampson of Rogers, and the work of the women in the cast being particularly good. "The Auctioneer" Auc-tioneer" is a wonderful production, and in the 11 hands of Warfield it is a gem. |