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Show SACRED HEART ACADEMY. Frederick Warde Gave an Interesting Lecture to the Pupils. Ogden, Oct. 22. Friday afternoon the sisters and pupils of . Sacred Heart academy enjoyed a rare treat in the form of a lecture by Mr. Frederick Warde. With that singular blending of simplicity and elegance peculiar to the great the ronowned actor and Shakespearean scholar held his audience audi-ence enthralled, while in a familiar, yet eloquent, discourse he delineated the beauties of the master dramatist. "The Merchant of Venice,' "Othello," "Hamlet," "Henry VIII," "As You Like It," "The. Tempest" and "Richard III" were all laid under tribute, and the thought power of each, from the speaker's speak-er's viewpoint, emphasized by inimitable inimita-ble renditions of the most beautiful passages from the speeches of Portia, Desdemona, Claudius, Wolsey. Rosalind, Earl Richmond and the Melancholy Juke. It is seldom that an opportunity of listening to the thoughts of one who has made the life and plays of Shakespeare Shakes-peare a life study presents itself, and when to knowledge are added oratorical oratori-cal power and the highest dramatic art, the speaker's ideas cannot fail to impress. im-press. Shakespeare's keen insight into human hu-man nature, his intelectual power and his lofty interpolation of women with their happy blending of straightfor- wardness and high-born delicacy, of domesticity and intellectuality were presented with exquisite force and grace. Special stress was laid upon the spiritual element of the dramas and various passages quoted to show the author's earnest belief in the efficacy ef-ficacy of prayer." Mr. Warde considers Shakespeare the' source of poesy, thought and inspiration, inspira-tion, but thinks the draught should be quaffed from the fount of the master mind and not from the troubled stream of the commentators. In connection with one of the strongest strong-est lines from Wolsey's speech to Cromwell. Crom-well. Mr. Warde related with pleasing effect a personal reminiscence of our lamented President McKinley. To the favored auditors Mr. Warde's lecture has given Shakespeare's works a new interest that will doubtless render ren-der their future study more fruitful, while his words of counsel to the young ladies were such as would find a deep echo in every mother's heart. |