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Show Hanforcl. Mr. Charles IS Hanford, wliose appearance ap-pearance as Marc Antony In "Julius Caesar" at the Thatcher opera house on Tuesday April 2.1, will rank as ono of the most interesting and important events of the current theatrical season, sea-son, Is by nature as well as by training, train-ing, singularly adopted to the rolo which ho portrays in this great drama of statesmanship. He is an actor and despite his many successes In light com cdy Is unquestionably one of the fore most Interpreters of the declamatory school now before tho American public pub-lic lie is distinctly of an oratorical type. One who professes to read character char-acter by outward physical indications will see something more than a mere coincidence in Mr. Hanford's startling start-ling resemblance to the great modem orator William Jennings Hryan. This production of "Julius Caesar" will bo a revival In tho correct sense of tho word, forit was as Marc Antony that Mr Hanford years ago stepped from obscurity into stellar eminence as a supporting actor In tho company of Booth and Barrett. Mr Hanford purchased pur-chased the scenery and costumes of that production from tho estate of Lawrence Barrett, and these form tho basis of the elaborate and historically accurate representation now offered |