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Show SOTHERN'S GALLERY OF PORTRAITURES. Mr. Sothorn's contribution to the stage as shown in his now crowded gallery of portraitures is taking on unusual proportions, and next Thursday Thurs-day the audience at the Theatre is to see him in another new creation, In which he interprets eccentric ec-centric comedy as Lord Dundreary, the role in which his father made the whole world laugh for twenty-five years. If for no other reason the wide extent of dramatic dra-matic expression that Mr. Sothern has given voice to in his many characterizations should enlist en-list attention from the student of the drama. Sothern's repertoire has embraced thirty-seven different roles, running the gamut of every de scription of expression known to dramatic art. Comedy, eccentric and character impersonation, the romantic, poetic and tragic in each of these Sothern has won honor. Throughout his career it is evident that he has adhered to his intention to profit by his father's ill-fortune, who had become be-come known merely as a "one-part actor," and through his Dundreary alone is known to present theatre-goers, as Joseph Jefferson is best remembered remem-bered for his Rip Van "Winkle. A brief resume of the characters Mr. Sothern has so well portrayed is of timely interest. Six of the characters Mr. Sothern has played were Shakespearean; five tragic and the others have alternated between comedy, the poetic and the romantic. Two of them were distinctly character parts, when he appeared as a New York ragamuffin ragamuf-fin in one of Richard Harding Davis' plays, "The Disreputable Mr. Reagan," and again when ho impersonated the burglar in "Bditha's Burglar. The mention of Mr. Sothern's plays in the order or-der in which he has presented them is of interest inter-est to those who follow the drama, and they are herewith given in full for the first time. More than anything else the perusal of their titles shows the steady progress and advancement this ambitious artist has made. "One of of Our Girls," "Met by Chance," "The Love Chase," "A Scrap of Paper," "The Highest Bidder," "Lord Chumley," "The Maister of Wood-barrow," Wood-barrow," "The Dancing Girl," "Captain Lettar-blair," Lettar-blair," "Sheridan," "The Victoria Cross," "The Lady of Lyons," "The Way to Win a Woman, "The Prisoner of Zenda," "An Enemy to the King," "Change Alley," "The Adventures of Lady Ursula," "The Musketeers," "The Song of the Sword," "The Sunken Bell," "Hamlet," "Richard Lovelace," "If I Were King," "The Proud Prince," "Romeo and Juliet," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Taming of the Shrew," "The Merchant of Venice," Ven-ice," "Twelfth Night," "John the Baptist," "Jeanne D'Arc," "The Fool Hath Said," "Don Quixote," "Lord Dundreary." Besides these he has appeared in the following one-act plays: "I Love, Thou Lovest" (written by himself), "Edi-tha's "Edi-tha's Burglar" and "Tho Disreputable Mr. Reagan." Rea-gan." Next season Mr. Sothern will add two more ambitious roles which he expects to make the most important of his career, "King Lear" and Macbeth." This season, besides presenting Lord Dundreary Dun-dreary and Richard Lovelace, Mr. Sothern anticipates antici-pates appearing in an important production of Richelieu, also from time to time as Hamlet. |